to let my dd go out with odd socks on

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my dd has just changed out of her uniform into a t shirt and leggings coz she wants to go for a bike ride. She is nearly 11. We have a great big plastic box full of socks (not paired) which the kids just take when they need em.

My dd couldn't be bothered to find 2 socks the same, so just put 2 odd socks on.

Should I have got up and done it for her?

Will the neighbours report me if they spot her socks don't match?

She's outside?
Where other people can see her?
In socks that don't match?

faints

My dd (13) doesn't go out unless she's wearing odd socks. Usually fluescent ones, at that!

oh my God I had no idea it was fashionable. What an awful fashion. She wouldn't like it much if I came to pick her up from school with odd socks on.

Ugh, you keep your socks unpaired in a plastic box?

You should be keeping them in a wicker basket with a Cath Kidston lining, paired, pressed and with a spring of lavender on top. What hope is there for your poor children?

Don't you even READ catalogues?

it's cool these days...people do it on purpose..shows you're carefree and relaxed don't cha know

we wouldnever get to schoolif this was not allowed....

I did start off with good intentions when I had kids and I used to pair all the socks and even iron them and place them neatly in each of my 3 childrens drawers.

Like I say though, that novelty wore off very very quickly and as soon as the kids were capable of getting 2 socks that matched I just started taking the socks out of the tumble dryer and chucking them straight into one of those plastic toy boxes and dumping in it the cupboard under the stairs.

I don't know what when wrong really. I never meant to be this kind of mother. I was gonna be like a cross between Martha Stewart and Bree from Desparate Housewives.

DD usually wears odd socks.

Unfortunately she usually wears my odd socks, leaving me with the other half.....

You disgust me.

I mean that. If you lived next door to me, I would be calling not only SS, but also the police.

Some people shouldn't be allowed to have children.

Why don't you take Anthea Turner's advice and put each pair in its own floral box? You can then take a polaroid of each pair and stick it to the front of the box with craft ribbon so that you know which pair is in which box.

If you're going to make life harder for yourself with this confusing, neglected box of socks CRUELLY locked in the cupboard under the stairs, then you're only yourself to blame I'm afraid.

Oooo I LOVE the communal sock box idea!! I spend way too much time trying to work out which sock belongs to which child....[heads off to find plastic toy box]

Do you live in Surrey? It would matter if you lived there, of course, especially Cobham, and most especially Stoke D'Abernon or however the hell they spell it.

I haven't worn a pair of socks for years, except by mistake/luck.

I'm wearing odd socks.

God I'm trendy for the first time since 1993

is she an anarchist?

I am Laughing my head off here. (It might be the early glass of wine)

I have an EXCELLENT tip though. I have 2 boys and therefore I only buy grey socks. Thousands and thousands of grey socks. They live in a sock bag in the cupboard under the stairs and they just grab 2 every morning.

This is the start of a slippery slatternly slope

Grab your daughter and change her socks

SLATTERN

eek. i'm in odd socks too... and only 1 mile from the surrey border...
i'm alarmed to know the odd fluorescent sock thing is back though

We are a household of Surrey-dwelling odd-sock wearers. Life is too short to pair.