My rule is always wear two socks.
I only do that with the ones that I really don’t like.
“Darn you, sub-par sock!!”
You know, like that.
I once asked my mother to tell me which sock was the right sock, and which was the left sock, but she wouldn’t answer me. I keep insisting, and finally she yelled, “It doesn’t matter!”
“Exactly!” I said. “That’s why I want to switch them! So. . . please tell me: Which is which?”
I’ve heard of a darning egg. Wonder why it’s all chicken related?
I’ve been buying the same basic socks (about half the pairs white, the other half gray) since college so that when one sock wears out I can save it as a spare and so that matching them after laundry is a total no-brainer.
When I was in officer training school in the 80s, for inspection, socks had to “smile”. When you roll socks and then flip one of the openings around the rest of the sock so it won’t unroll, the bottom of the sock makes a curved “bellybutton-like” slit. You had to have the socks positioned to the curve was up forming a smile vs down and forming a frown. My wife used to get a kick out that when I did my laundry after I was commissioned.
It’s called a “darning egg” and yes.
I’ve considered making them, what with sock making becoming somewhat trendy these days. They’re hard to find.
Once they are on my feet, they are dirty. If I take them off after five minutes, they go in the laundry.
Glad to see you, RID905. We welcome all posters regardless of their soxuality, even deviant twisted freaks like yourself. Socks come out of the dryer en masse, and are dumped into the drawer. Sometimes they don’t even make out of the laundry basket. When dressing, any two socks of similar color - hunter and kelly green, for example - constitute a match. Any further concern given to soxual organization is the mark of a mind that will one day occupy the time of the FBI’s Serial Crime Unit.
But welcome!
I find it repulsive to put shoes on if I’ve been walking around in socks. I have to put fresh socks on first.
Been buying Hanes white crew socks for years. No folding, rolling, stuffing or any other form of matching. Just all laid out with toes to the left side of the drawer open end to the right and soul to front. First laundry day of each month turn the pile over so toe to right open to left and soul to back so they get rotated.
Oh, I only wear SmartWool socks. If they ever go under, then I swear I will go barefoot.
This thread made me have to go put on socks! I try to buy the same socks each time, but it never works out and ever so often we have an ‘empty the sock drawer on the couch and sort while we watch tv’ evening. It’s a Party Zone around this house!
As I mentioned earlier, I have only one brand and color of sock. But I’ve actually gone even further down the road to Sock Zen: I don’t even bother rotating my socks, I just chuck them right on top of the pile again from the laundry.
I realized that rotating is pointless. The overall lifetime of a pile of socks is the same whether I wear them all out evenly, or wear out the pile from front to back, in sequence. As long as there are still socks in the pile, I’m good.
I do tend to throw newly purchased socks to the back of the heap, or at least towards the general direction of the back, but there’s really no reason to even do that. As long as I acquire new socks when the total amount shrinks to a given minimum, it’s all the same. Sure, there may be some socks all the way at the back that aren’t worn for 40 years, while the front lines get a massive amount of turnover, but, well, who cares? The average amount of sock wear is equal either way.
Basically, I think of my socks more as a uniform liquid, rather than as a collection of discrete objects.
Folding, rolling or arranging them in the drawer in any particular direction is of course completely out of the question. Yes, I have put a lot of thought into finding the laziest possible solutions for these things. That’s how I roll in life.
My one and only rule:I insist that all my socks have at least one hole in them.
If I buy socks and they don’t have at least one hole in them, I take them back.
So far so good. All my socks have had at least one in them.
Ahh, just above the mean.
I have the openings to a bunch of sock puns, but the dryer ate all the punch lines.
I was going to go the “sox = sex” route but around here people may actually HAVE violent socks. Ya just never know with a group this diverse.
Today was laundry day.
And I thought of this thread while sorting sox.
And realized there is one more rule worth posting:
If a sock gets a hole in it, ( usually from going through the washer and dryer ) then it becomes a no-holes-barred extravaganza to try and make the hole bigger while I’m wearing it on the next round.
I’ll drag my foot, scuff it around, and do anything to try and make the hole more disastrous. Then, I’ll keep checking the hole status ( if just wearing sox ) or wait until the end of the day and take my shoes off, to look at the bottom and see what happened during the day.
If it’s bad enough, they get ceremoniously tossed in the garbage.
Yes, I too live at Party Central. :smack:
<John Gielgud voice> Do you alert the media? 