To share socks?!

[PepperAndPops]

I'm so sick of socks. Washing them finding the other one and having a whole box full of odds. And the kids having socks that are similar but not the same.

Me, my son and both my daughters could potentially wear the same size socks (we have different sized feet but all in a similar range and find socks very giving).
I'm extremely tempted to just get rid of all the socks and just have one by drawer downstairs with white trainer socks that the 4 of us wear. Just buy like 20 packs of the same sock.

Is it ok to sock share?! Doesn't seem to be the norm. But obviously they are washed in between uses?!

I hate sorting out socks but I do find one sock draw for the whole family weird...

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My partner and I share socks. He is too lazy to find his own so wears mine. I just put up with it now.

But what is the REASON for not wanting to share socks?!

This is the way ahead although daughters may kick off. In the house of men, 1 DH, 2 teen DS, two dozen pairs of black socks every 6 months. No more lone socks.

My daughters don't mind, they are total sladderns and it gives them less to put in their drawers

I share socks with several people with similar sized feet. Works well - why not, as long as they're clean?

Alternatively, M&S do lots of socks with black uppers and colourful patterns or initials hidden under the shoe, and that's what I use for the DC so don't share.

OH and I have a sock drawer between us.

I think people just think it seems odd because some think feet are gross. (Also, some people would want a variety of colors and styles of socks and wouldn't be happy with just one type/color.)

But as you say, the socks are washed, so if you think it would work for your family, go for it!

I buy men’s socks from uniqlo so DH could wear them if he wished, they’d fit.

But you are BU to just buy white socks 😫

DH tried this for himself buying lots of black socks. He now has to line them up to match them by length and shade (does it really matter?!) As they change in the wash.

He wouldn't share because of foot problems.

YANBU. Genius. May do it myself for all of us!

My sons share socks and dd and I share and I will also wear dh socks if I can’t find any of mine.
My boys wear grey for school and dh, me and dd all wear black ones.
The dc also have coloured ones and they wear them odd as I can’t be arsed to match them. The world won’t end if you wear odd socks.

I suppose I just find it weird because it’s not the normal thing to do.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve shared socks. I will wear my husbands and the children have worn each other’s but I wouldn’t set out to do it.
Even when washed I would just be thinking someone else’s feet have sweated in these. If my mum had made me share socks with my brothers growing up I would of been fuming 😂

I think it's a good idea. I've started wearing DPs socks because my fat pregnancy feet no longer fit in my own

My hasband and I share. I just have a bag with all the odd socks we both use. I don't have a problem with wearing odd socks.

I wear my husbands, he doesn't care, I only a few pairs of my own, not sure why, maybe because I just wear his!

Not the norm, but I can see the sense in it.

Actually, thinking about it, my teens and dh have similar sized feet, and similar socks, and will get each other’s socks. Or if they run out, will raid someone else’s drawers, so it actually makes,perfect sense.

I would think fungal infections would spread more easily.

I buy distinctive patterned socks so they are easier to pair.

DH tried this for himself buying lots of black socks. He now has to line them up to match them by length and shade (does it really matter?!) As they change in the wash. I so this with our sock draw, it totally matters IMO as they are not paired correctly they feel odd. We have a few in the draw that are just mine but most of them are shared. I also borrow DD's socks.

I once lived in a house that had a draw of black socks that was shared by 4 members of the same family, I thought it was very sensible and would wear a pair from the draw myself occasionally.

All three in our house now have the same size socks...technically we do share some but we all prefer different type of socks so haven't gone fully communal yet

Perfectly sensible. I used to do this with ex.

As long as no one has athlete's foot, why not?

I wear black tights for work. Teenage dd wears black tights for school. We've given up trying to sort them and now just have a shared tights drawer.

we share socks
im a adult 12(have been since i was 11 so imaging my teenage life),13 y old is a adult 11(going it to a 12 soon)partner is a 9

7 y old is a 4 but doesnt wear socks(autism spd etc) both kids are boys

we buy the black asda george(smart price i think) packs of 7 and share them between the 3 of us as they go up to a 12.

most socks stop at a 11 which is to small for me and oldest

as i can only buy mens trainers oldest sometimes wear mine,i cant wear his as they are a size down