I've just spent £200 on socks

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Feeling guilty but I am so sick of matching up socks which are all quite similar but not a match. I swear as a family we have vast amounts of socks and yet never enough, cold house means we often wear two pairs each and kids have clean ones for bed/different ones for sports. I have a basket mountain of mismatched socks and I can't remember when I had new ones.

So, I've bought the four of us 20 pairs each in a different pattern/style and hope this is going to make my sock matching life easier!

Honestly I wouldn't expect anything different

Chuckling at Communist socks! 😂

Twenty pairs of socks? Twenty? Twenty??

Twenty pairs of socks?

Are you spiders?

That’s why I prefer showers in the evening to a morning shower - got to be clean getting into bed

Where did I say my DH doesn't want to pick his own? Sometimes he ignores what I've laid out and gets something different, which isn't a problem. It just stays in the compartment until I refill it, it's no different from being folded separately in drawers.

I shouldn't have to add this but I will, my oldest is disabled and needs to have his clothes sorted for him or he'd probably end up trying to put a sock on as a t-shirt, I even have to dress him. Also my daughter actually helps me with it a lot of the time (because she wants to) I'll ask her what she wants to wear on each day, and we'll do it together.

Do you not get your children to help out with household tasks? Or do something nice for your husband just to make both your mornings a little bit easier? I'm struggling to understand why you're speechless

Slightly disappointed that you didn't blow £200 on one pair of socks.
I was looking forward to a description of totally extravagant, beautiful socks.

7 for day time
7 for night-time
6 spare for laundry days or to double up when it's really cold. Or if one gets a hole/lost...etc

https://gabrielahearst.com/products/leto-knit-socks-cadmium-yellow-spice-bordeaux-cashmere?variant=45590192783552

If you have the cash spare

Jesus Christ I accidentally added a 0!
Almost £2k on ONE PAIR OF SOCKS

I actually love your style - genuinely! This is the kind of hyper organisation I secretly aspire to but don’t have the commitment for… I’m generally a ‘clothes laid out the night before’ kind of person. Not for DH though, tbh, but why on Earth shouldn’t you?? Everyone loves differently and you’re not harming anyone so I don’t really get the snippy comments. I love people’s quirks. I’m coming all over Monica from friends and wanting to marry you a tiny bit 😂

im actually a bit staggered that no one has admitted to really loving wearing a pair of socks that matches their outfit. It’s like having matching underwear. A quiet source of inner satisfaction and rightness with the world…. 😊😉😂

My DS did odd socks day one year at primary. From then on he refused to wear matched socks. He’s now at college and is quite infamous there for wearing odd socks & shorts all year round. It’s great as there’s no matching of socks. I also wear odd socks at the weekend as a special treat 😀.
Apart from my work socks are all black so no matching, my DD are black with coloured toes & it’s up to them if they match the socks. Dh has mainly the same socks so no matching there.

Careful they don't make your diamond shoes any tighter.

A bit different from
To answer why.... because I want to. I do my DHs clothing because again, I want to.

I still can’t imagine a DH who wouldn’t want to sort out his own outfit. Got absolutely nothing to do with not doing nice things for him. And I don’t understand your question about do I not get my children to help with household tasks? My children are now young adults and both of us obviously made them help out like most parents would.

Hopefully it won’’t enter my dd’s mind to pick out her future dh’s clothes for the week. She is used to her father buying, washing, ironing and being picky about his work clothes though. However, each to their own and I do appreciate that your system is very good for your disabled child. It must be hard work and you do what you have to, no doubt.

Jesus

I relate to Monica so much! I have guest and fancy guest towels!

He didn’t wear socks though, did he..?

But if he did, he probably wouldn’t wear his Friday socks. It would be the favourite Sunday socks every day.

I wear socks in bed. They are bedsocks, not bog standard cotton day socks. They're wool or cashmere and loose, not restrictive. They're usually off by the morning, but I need them when I get into bed and it's cold.

I have strong sensory preferences too, but I'm shuddering at the thought of bare feet all the time. I loathe bare feet even in the summer. Socks and sheepskin slippers all the way, and ideally pyjamas tucked into the socks so there aren't flappy bits or draughts.

They would definitely end up as socks for cats here. It's definitely not intentional, but I had to instigate a rule of IF IT'S MINE PUT IT ON THE AIRER AND LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE after some virtual foot binding experiences of a morning.

I have so many questions

So are chilblains and reynolds

Beyond the price, it states made in Italy but also "Handmade by artisans at a female run nonprofit in Uruguay". Which is it?! And for that price, why aren't the artisans being given enough to make a profit?!

I did similar to OP and have never looked back.

Can't believe we ever had lots of different socks each. What a waste of time that was. Now DH (for example) has about 16 pairs of identical black socks in the same style. No problems pairing them up, plus if one of them gets a hole in it, I don't need to throw the other one away.

Weeellll, I wasn't going to say anything but, yes, yes you do need to get out more!
And ditch the day-themed socks!
😃😃

I dont understand how is this ment to solve your problem. You need 20 pairs of exactly same socks for that.