How to wash sock so they look lovely??

[Jazz12]

Some people always have nice socks!
How to easily wash socks:

1. to be really clean - even the bottom
2. In a washing machine - I hate to wash by hand !!

please help me with some tips. Thanks 🙏🏻

the machine gets our socks perfectly clean. Not that they are dirty!
What do you a do in your socks? Do you walk outside in no shoes?

My socks look fine when I've machine-washed them. What do you think is wrong with yours?

Have black socks, not white.

What a strange question! Throw them in the washing machine with the other washing, add detergent and fabric conditioner, switch on - job done.

What colour socks are we taking about - I've never noticed the bottoms being particularly dirty by then most of my socks are dark colours.

I've never once admired someone's socks! But agree with PP, get black socks.

My boys wear white and get them dirty going outside.
I wash them on a 60 wash, Daz, 2 scoops of oxy clean/vanish

Erm put them in the washing machine?

I just wash them in the machine with everything else and they always come out looking nice.

It depends on what socks they are! If they are hand knitted merino then possibly not the washing machine…

OP I know what you mean 😂! HOW DO PEOPLE KEEP WHITE SOCKS WHITE!

I wash our white socks (and other white things) with bleach. They always look nice. They never look partially dirty. I can't recall that I've ever thought of a sock as looking lovely, though.

not have light coloured socks inthe first place.
wearing slippers at home.
never get wet shoes that leach dye onto socks.

sorry, I think sock grime is impossible to get out.

I hear you.
My daughter wears white socks and likes to play in the bark area at school. Gets LOADS of random marks on the soles of her socks!

I have a sock bucket (it's an old nappy bin)
2 generous scoops of supermarket own brand vanish Oxy spray and BOILING water.
Add the socks gradually and stir the manky fizzy mix like a witch with a budget cauldron.

Leave it until cool/cold. Drain then throw them into a whites wash.
Spray any remaining/stubborn looking marks
Own brand Oxy in the wash
Detergent
Fabric softener
30 deg wash for 60 min
Also, if you can dry near natural light (face any marks towards a window) the uv works wonders even when it looks grey outside

Don’t buy light colored socks. Rubbing them in with some oxygen bleech helps to get stubborn dirt / stains out.

Wash similar colours together.

Straighten them out before going in the wash.

For stains pre-treat with cold water and an enzyme solution (vanish is good).

Smooth them out before hanging up to dry or put in tumble dryer.

If really going to town, iron them.

Buy coloured socks if you can. For school, soak them in a lot of vanish.

Washing them at 60 degrees. And using biological powder.

We wear slippers indoors, our white socks do stay white.

YABU for posting this in AIBU

Don't buy white socks, white patterned, any kind of white, or light pink or yellow or anything similar. My trainer socks are a grey mix.

Don't walk outside in socks, ever. Wear slippers at home if it's cold enough for socks, bare feet if it's not.

we have lots of white/light coloured socks