To not want to wash my dishes using

[OddHoleySocks]

Someone else's socks?

A Facebook friend that I know through an online craft group has started making 'scrubbers' for washing dishes using her odd socks. She is selling them for charity - and wants people to donate their odd and holey socks so she can make more...

(not envy)

AIBU to be a bit grossed out by this? I know they will be clean.

I just don't understand the concept of using cotton as a scrubber. It's not exactly known for its abrasive qualities. I don't use my wash cloths on pans because they get minging and need to go in the washing machine after one use (pans are still dirty too).

I'm totally with you Dame! I rarely use bleach and have never bought disposable cleaning wipes. I shower on my working days or when I am going out. My bath towel usually gets washed weekly (unless I'm really busy at the weekend and then it might be two ) I have knitted my own scrubbies using leftover cotton from crafting projects.

But apparently the fact that I don't want to clean things using a strangers socks makes me a loon.

HUZZAH, they are cut into strips and woven, so it's more compact and has more edges than just a plain cotton cloth would.

This wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. It’s an ingenious idea.

No one ever made sock puppets in school, or even your kids?

I don't recall making sock puppets at school. We made ones out of loo roll tubes which are probably fully worse tbh!

But would you honestly buy a scrubby made with socks worn by a stranger?

So she is selling her odd socks to people? I love the idea of reusing, but I have my own odd socks, old T-shirt’s etc to use. I can’t see myself buying someone else’s rags.

Am I misunderstanding this?

She is selling a scrubber made from odd socks.

I don't really have odd socks as mine are all hand-knitted wool; in this house, the other of a pair is likely to turn up in a weird place. I knit or crochet my washcloths out of cotton with nicely rough patterned stitches. Mum did use my old nappies for years though; Dad's old cotton vests would turn up for cloths for silver etc.

It will be a lot more minging as a dish cloth than it ever was as a sock. I'd rather suck on a dirty sock than a dirty dish cloth. Oh wait. No one is going to be sucking on either.

Okay, that makes more sense. 😀

No, I wouldn’t want someone else’s sock to wash anything. I’m all for making environmental changes. I would just use my own sock, or other rags or all the dish cloths that I already own.

Off to google a sock scrub. Can’t imagine what it would look like. Mine are all trainer socks, and don’t seem particularly absorbent.

Yes I would.
For anyone googling them they are called tawashi

Sure if she leaves the odd broken toenail in them, it’ll help scrub the dishes. 😁

I might make one using my kids socks but not so keen on buying someone else’s scaggy old socks. Especially if they have stinking feet like my DH.

The level of anal retentiveness in inflexible thinking on this (and other threads with anything to do with cleaning) is absolutely breathtaking, as always. We’re honestly doomed.

Meh. Wouldn't bother me one bit. I think it's a great idea tbh.

I would consider using my own families odd socks for a scrubber. But strange, unknown feet? Unthinkable.

My mum kept all our old terry nappies and used them as dishcloths for pretty much all of my childhood. She didn’t buy any new dishcloths until I was in my teens.

At the time, it seemed perfectly normal ( and they had been boil-washed) but by today’s standards, it is gross. Worse than socks, I think!

We did that quite recently.

happyspud

I agree that we are too wasteful a society. But total strangers socks, is where I draw the line. I reuse everything I can, and am happy to find uses for old fabrics, avoiding plastics, no “disposable” wipes etc..

If you are on this wave length surely you don’t need to purchase this product? You would be making your own version?

I used a coconut brush. I highly recommend them.

I don’t think people did use a lines with terries when I was a kid. Don’t remember my mum using one with my little sister.

Liner

Other people's old socks on my dishes? No thanks. (Besides, I like to knit and crochet my own scrubbers from psychedelically colored yarn. Makes dish-washing just a little bit groovier.)

Pffffft. What's wrong with sticking the washing up in the bath with you! The loofah brings pans up a treat.
Saves time and money, specially if you stick the kids in afterwards.
Honestly, people nowadays!.

Shuffles off shaking head.

I don’t think people did use a lines with terries when I was a kid. Don’t remember my mum using one with my little sister

Going slightly off-topic, that's what muslins were originally used for - as liners for terry nappies, to make them softer against the skin, and to enable the 'contents' to be more easily rinsed away!