@Kyser_Soze@Zeusandhera I own a couple of different colors, but they are all in multiples of those colors/styles, ie white socks, black socks, no-show socks (black). Generally when I put the socks out on the 50ft solar drier (aka clothesline) I will pair them up as I go so they are easier to put away when I take them down. If I end up with one with a hole in it I will pull it out to use in the shop for cleaning/straining etc. The other goes back in the bin with the other socks of the same style/color. From there it’s just “lather, rinse, repeat”.
I buy at least 2 pairs of identical socks so I can lose/wreck 3 of them before I am out of luck. Then I’ll salvage what is left by wearing mismatched socks around the house.
All my socks are different, I only have maybe two types that I have more than 1 pair of. I always wondered where the missing socks go, and why some people seemed to lose them all the time, so I got compulsive about it - I check that I have both in each pair as I get ready to wash them, check them again at the critical transfer point of washer to dryer, then again when they come out of the dryer, That way if one is missing, I know where in the drawer-wear-hamper-washer-dryer-drawer cycle it got lost and I can track it down quickly. I may need some help …
@stolicat Same here! I do that too although I don’t wear socks that often. I really didn’t think I gave a fuck about this until I read your post so now I wonder…
@stolicat the only one I really realize I do often is trying to fix hoodie strings. I actually bought a hooded t-shirt and I’m messing with those damn things all day long whenever I wear it.
@RiotDemon aaahhh, I have to fess up to that one, too. If someone I’m talking to has uneven hoodie strings, I find it so distracting I’ll often straighten them up for them. I try not to be too annoying fussy about it, with a comment how it’s nice to frame up that wonderful face you have …
I’d love to buy all the same socks like those above, but apparently Walmart likes changing up inventory so the best I can do, it seems, is a 6 pack at a time.
Once I’m down to one, since I’ve lost count so not positive it’s the last, it goes in a small pile I hide out of sight in the bedroom, which is pulled out each weekend when I sort the clean laundry, to see if the match got in a later load or something. Usually about every 6 months I purge the pile of socks that have been in it a while, cutting them into rags or something. Reuse, reduce, recycle.
put the lone sock in the drawer with the other socks, and wait until the missing one shows up. i have to use a laundromat so if there’s no pair when i’m folding it’s because i either accidentally left it at the bottom of the hamper at home (or it’s behind the hamper or something) or it’s stuck inside one of my partner’s pant legs. either way it’ll turn up eventually.
I used to intentionally wear mismatched socks, but my brain can’t handle the dissonance anymore. Even with my kids’ socks. They both have to be at least equal amounts stained or clean to be matched, even if they’re technically able to be called a “pair.”
Now I know why I belong at Meh. We are all the kind of people who buy only one or two kinds of socks and therefore don’t have to deal with missing or mismatched socks. Usually I end up throwing out a sock with a hole in it, then I’ve got an odd number of socks, until another one gets a hole.
I used to never wear matching socks. All my socks were colored and I just grabbed two, it was kinda my thing. Then I got a boyfriend and moved in with him and started doing his laundry and he had to have matching socks (those people) so now I have matching socks to. It takes so much longer to fold laundry when you have to match socks. I miss the old days.
I’m like most of you. One type of sock, until today. I bought 2 packs of these goofy socks so that I’d have something under the tree for me. I tell people, I don’t want anything, and finally after years I have gotten them to listen.
Opening a card with a gift card, and I say “An interest free loan to a major corporation!” finally got them to stop. But I always need socks and underwear. Those are always acceptable gifts.
Own only one type of sock. So if one gets lost or gets a hole in it, the other one still matches every other sock in the drawer!
@Zeusandhera Same here, way easier to do the laundry.
@Kyser_Soze @Zeusandhera I own a couple of different colors, but they are all in multiples of those colors/styles, ie white socks, black socks, no-show socks (black). Generally when I put the socks out on the 50ft solar drier (aka clothesline) I will pair them up as I go so they are easier to put away when I take them down. If I end up with one with a hole in it I will pull it out to use in the shop for cleaning/straining etc. The other goes back in the bin with the other socks of the same style/color. From there it’s just “lather, rinse, repeat”.
@Zeusandhera stop it! you’re making sense!
I buy lots of the same socks. I’m good until until there is only one.
@WaltC Albert Einstein’s method of not having mismatched socks was to not wear socks…doesn’t seem so smart now, does he?
I buy at least 2 pairs of identical socks so I can lose/wreck 3 of them before I am out of luck. Then I’ll salvage what is left by wearing mismatched socks around the house.
Buy nothing but the same sock. No matching necessary.
I leave all the pairs and search out the one. Then have a celebration that the lost has been found.
@hchavers Oh, the parable of the Prodigal sock?
@chienfou, different parable: this one was a Shepherd and his flock. So @hchavers is the Good Sockherd.
@chienfou @hchavers @mollama
You called me??
I haven’t worn a pair of matching socks in 11 years.
@lilsrm123 logged in just to +1 you. Same.
And, the Simply Stitched socks mismatch remarkably well.
@lilsrm123 Did you lose a foot in 2008?
I only buy one brand, and only white, black, and gray
All my socks are the same, totally interchangeable. I don’t even put them in my sock drawer as pairs, so if a sock is missing I won’t even know.
Saves on therapy.
@Kidsandliz Somebody is doing it wrong… My guess is it was missing the lint trap allowing small items to get sucked in.
I read all of the above responses. I have come to a conclusion about Mehtizens…
@shahnm we like cookies?
@RiotDemon
@RiotDemon @shahnm We eat on the toilet? Fair.
All my socks are different, I only have maybe two types that I have more than 1 pair of. I always wondered where the missing socks go, and why some people seemed to lose them all the time, so I got compulsive about it - I check that I have both in each pair as I get ready to wash them, check them again at the critical transfer point of washer to dryer, then again when they come out of the dryer, That way if one is missing, I know where in the drawer-wear-hamper-washer-dryer-drawer cycle it got lost and I can track it down quickly. I may need some help …
@stolicat Same here! I do that too although I don’t wear socks that often. I really didn’t think I gave a fuck about this until I read your post so now I wonder…
Can one have OCD and PTSD combined with DILLIGAF?
@llangley @stolicat I think you meant CDO… it’s like OCD, but all the letters are in the correct order.
@chienfou @llangley @stolicat
/youtube Rhett link ocd
@chienfou @llangley @RiotDemon the shirt organization and m&m arranging hits a little too close to home for me …
@stolicat the only one I really realize I do often is trying to fix hoodie strings. I actually bought a hooded t-shirt and I’m messing with those damn things all day long whenever I wear it.
@RiotDemon aaahhh, I have to fess up to that one, too. If someone I’m talking to has uneven hoodie strings, I find it so distracting I’ll often straighten them up for them. I try not to be too annoying fussy about it, with a comment how it’s nice to frame up that wonderful face you have …
I’d love to buy all the same socks like those above, but apparently Walmart likes changing up inventory so the best I can do, it seems, is a 6 pack at a time.
Once I’m down to one, since I’ve lost count so not positive it’s the last, it goes in a small pile I hide out of sight in the bedroom, which is pulled out each weekend when I sort the clean laundry, to see if the match got in a later load or something. Usually about every 6 months I purge the pile of socks that have been in it a while, cutting them into rags or something. Reuse, reduce, recycle.
put the lone sock in the drawer with the other socks, and wait until the missing one shows up. i have to use a laundromat so if there’s no pair when i’m folding it’s because i either accidentally left it at the bottom of the hamper at home (or it’s behind the hamper or something) or it’s stuck inside one of my partner’s pant legs. either way it’ll turn up eventually.
@jerk_nugget This is what I do too!!!
I buy all the same socks and just throw them all in a drawer
@reidk5307 Me, too. It’s a lot easier when you don’t have to go to some office to work, you can just wear white crew socks all the time.
“Life is too short for matching socks.” - medz’s granny
I used to intentionally wear mismatched socks, but my brain can’t handle the dissonance anymore. Even with my kids’ socks. They both have to be at least equal amounts stained or clean to be matched, even if they’re technically able to be called a “pair.”
Now I know why I belong at Meh. We are all the kind of people who buy only one or two kinds of socks and therefore don’t have to deal with missing or mismatched socks. Usually I end up throwing out a sock with a hole in it, then I’ve got an odd number of socks, until another one gets a hole.
Remember when people used to fix/darn socks?
I used to never wear matching socks. All my socks were colored and I just grabbed two, it was kinda my thing. Then I got a boyfriend and moved in with him and started doing his laundry and he had to have matching socks (those people) so now I have matching socks to. It takes so much longer to fold laundry when you have to match socks. I miss the old days.
@star2236 If he insists on matching socks, let him wash and sort his own.
I’m like most of you. One type of sock, until today. I bought 2 packs of these goofy socks so that I’d have something under the tree for me. I tell people, I don’t want anything, and finally after years I have gotten them to listen.
Opening a card with a gift card, and I say “An interest free loan to a major corporation!” finally got them to stop. But I always need socks and underwear. Those are always acceptable gifts.
same sock gang
Buy new socks on meh.com. What else?