AIB unreasonable about socks?

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I seriously hate socks .

I believe they should be sold as 3's not pairs (one always goes awol)

Or all socks should be just one colour i.e black so there is always a pair

Socks are stupid

Ooh no I do love a nice pair of socks!

I went through a phase as a teenager of only wearing odd socks but I did have some rules that I followed: firstly black socks could only be worn with other black socks and secondly that if the ones I put on were different lengths (heights?) that was a no no and one had to be changed.

I consider socks from the same set, but not the identical pair, to be matching. So if one has wide stripes and one narrow but in the same colour shades or the body of the sock is the same but the heel/toe highlight is different and even if DP's day of the week socks don't have the same day they count as a pair.

Anyone who has more time than that to devote to laundry is very dedicated but possibly misguided.

I don't seem to accumulate odd socks but that is probably because each sock has many possible partners rather than practising sock monogamy. I feel my socks are happy with their lifestyle choices.

I think all our lost socks are down the back of radiators. I need something long and poky to have a rummage behind them.

the socks drive me mad. YD always pinching mine and then even when I buy them new ones. they always get lost and there are so many odd ones.

But the saddest thing of all is when you throw out all the odds and half their partners re-emerge from the corners of old gym bags and tucked right down the side of the mattress when you turn it. They never ever emerge the day before you throw the odds out. And so starts another odd sock pile.

i have an odd sock bag. apparently there is a use for them and there is a book and you can turn old socks into stuffed toys. They looked quite impressive but knowing my efforts it would look like a sock.

YABU

Some of my best friends are socks.

You could make sock puppets!

or maybe sock dusters on hands. I must admit to having a bag of odd socks which I do try to rehome every so often and a plastic box.

I hate it when they go AWOL. do you think they are all behind the drum of the washer?

My dd 3.1 loves odd socks. Unfortunately it's taken 3yrs of sock-struggling with her to find out that she will put them on willingly, if they don't match! Problem solved.

Agree OP. Selling in threes is genius.

I finally caved and threw away my odd sock pile about four months ago, after clinging on for grim death for years in the vain hope that some of them might be reunited with their partners.

There were 42 of them.

Narrow feet need narrow socks. My dd 3.1 has size 6.5E feet and most socks are like floppy bags on her, which makes putting shoes on a bit tricky. Anyone found any socks that are narrow?

Creamy!

I love your mad threads

socks or the odd sock send me into a tizz and over the edge where do they go seriously i had a carrier bag full of socks and not `1 a pair , I think my children only put odd in for amusement sigh although if i havnt got a pair they cant wear a pair can they

I do hope that in the month since this thread started, no-one has turned their old socks into an army of hand puppets. Only new socks can be turned into toys and hand puppets, you can only make stinky puppets with old socks. Even if they are clean.

Everybody in my house wears odd socks. I just sort them into piles according to who they belong to, then they go in the appropriate drawer, unpaired. Life is too short for pairing socks.

I hate my teenagers socks, I've found 3 odd ones today

I caught a sock trying to hide under the washing machine, then the next load I put on another sock tried to head the same way. I think they have an escape route down there.

There have been no escape attempts since but I think they are just biding their time, waiting for my vigilance to wane

My ds used to be my sock pairer when he was little. Brilliant at it he was. It had to stop when I heard him muttering " You two can't be friends, you're different colours"

Imagine how that felt to a Guqrdiqn reading parent!

Every year or so I buy about 10 pairs of identical socks and throw out the oldest batch. It means I only have 2 different styles of socks and it's easier to match them.
I also have a few pairs for special occasions like hiking or trainer socks.
Socks in the same style but different colours are still a pair.

Dp only wears black socks so they are easy to pair up, I've started the same thing for ds, all of his socks are now black. When I buy the mine & the girls socks I get the type with the different coloured toes/heels so they are easy to spot and pair up, any odd ones go in the odd sock bag and paired up when thier twin appears.

I got very frustrated with DS's school socks. He had some different shades then some in different lengths and it was always hard to match them up. So I got rid and bought a pack of five and make sure they are all washed at the same time -- and I confess to washing some this week he hadnt worn as he had a day off school

How long do you wit until you finally realise that the other sock is gone for good?
Have odd socks in my odd sock bag that seem to have been there for Yeats.
But I know if I throw them out their partner will reappear.

Ds is a year and he loves "helping" to throw socks out of the basket and then in again sort socks

Good lord auto bloody correct

WAIT not wit

YEARS not A twentieth century poet.

Wasn't it on here that some genius suggested that odd socks eloped with teaspoons? That gave me license not to worry about the missing socks, although it does lend more pathos to the basket of unloved and therefore uneloped-with socks.
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