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Light-hearted threads are good. Let's have one.
I love socks. Tall socks. Stripey socks. Toe socks. Socks with cows on them. I just found a great web page that has an incredible collection of extra cool socks. Anyone else like socks?
(I actually will wear really high socks instead of nylons on Sunday if I can. WAY more comfy.)
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I prefer bare feet. If I could I would prefer not to wear shoes anywhere.
But on the topic of socks...what is it about washing machines and "eating" socks. I have a huge pile of odd socks because in my optimism I assume they will eventually pair up...you would have thought by now that I would have learnt.. Posts: 33 | Registered: Jun 2006
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Socks get sucked off into the 'hozone' layer around the earth..... Seriously, I hate shoes, but I like comfy socks. Though if I take off my shoes I will also usually take off my socks to save them from getting unnecessarily worn and dirty.
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You're just looking for more stuff to knit.
I only like socks in the dead of winter. I hate having cold feet. Other than that, I love to be barefoot.
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I think socks will be the downfall of modern man.
I do! After all, it's trying to find a matching pair of socks for my kids when I HAVE to be somewhere NOW that makes me late all the time. I don't have near the same problem during flip-flop season....
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quote: (I actually will wear really high socks instead of nylons on Sunday if I can. WAY more comfy.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep, I agree. I often wear warm knee socks with my skirts in the winter. I hate nylons anyway. I only wear knee-hi's. In hot weather, I wear peekaboo sandles with no stockings.
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I think I'm a little biased towards socks, because a few years ago I got 2nd & 3rd degree burns on most of my lower legs, so my legs are rather sensitive to shaving & I can't expose them to very much sun, so socks are just better.
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I am a bare foot person as well. I only wear socks when I have to wear my shoes. At home in the dead of winter my feet are bare because I can't stand the feel of socks with out shoes. That said when I do wear socks I like a nice thick athletic sock so I have mostly men's socks in my drawer.
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I hate thick socks. I buy the thin cotton anklets if I have to wear them...although I've been known to wear sandals in the snow (when I lived somewhere that had snow anyway). I actually rather like trouser socks. But nothing beats barefoot.
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I haven't worn nylons in, let me see *counts fingers and toes* a decade and a half. Haven't worn socks since I arrived here almost three years ago.
quote: what is it about washing machines and "eating" socks
quote: Socks get sucked off into the 'hozone' layer around the earth
A common misperception, m'dear, but sadly untrue. As Ren & Stimpy informed us, there is actually a small island, a homeland, for which all left socks yearn. All the left socks in the world spend weeks, sometimes months, plotting to escape from their hated smelly-footed masters and their intolerable right-sock partners, and running away to this island, to live in peace, harmony and paradise with all the other left socks in the world.
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I never wear shoes unless I have to. They're the last thing I put on before I leave the house and the first thing I take off when I walk in the door (if I didn't already take them off in the car). One day, when my kids were little, it was very cold in our house and my feet were freezing. I went to get my shoes. Before I had the first one on, all four kids had jumped in the car.
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Buy 15 pair of the same white socks and 15 pair of the same dark socks. Throw away all other socks. It makes sorting laundry so much easier.
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quote:Buy 15 pair of the same white socks and 15 pair of the same dark socks. Throw away all other socks. It makes sorting laundry so much easier.
This was my solution after ending up with bags and bags full of 'odd' socks. My youngest son has endless 'pairs' of the same sock now.
As for me, I LOVE socks, like most people, at home I love to be barefoot, but going out, give me my socks. In my 20s and 30s, I had a penchant for going out with different colour socks on, in colours that were noticeably different. I would even wear them to informal meetings - people would often grin and acknowledge my socks!
In early 20s I loved the socks that had all the different designs on them, and I guess that was about the time they became all the rage. When the 'Sock Shop' opened, I was in my element, it was like all my Christmas' had come at once.
Now I buy white cotton socks, and I love the trainer socks we can buy. As I wear mostly jeans and trousers in the winter, and mostly capris in the summer, socks are one of those definite must haves in my wardrobe.
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Will anyone hold it against me if I forego socks during the summer (Northern hemisphere)? I just use sandals, which suit me fine.
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Black socks! They never get dirty The longer you wear them The stronger they get.
Sometimes I think I should launder them Something inside whispers Don't wash them yet Not yet Not yet Not yet!
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Like BG, I have liked socks w/ designs, ie at holdidays I wear Halloween or Christmas socks, Valentine socks, etc. I have socks w/stars, flowers, etc. Of couse I have smiley face socks, sickening I know. I know it is childish as I am 37, but for me it is just fun and a way to dress up the day. I find plain white socks boring (though that is what I wore today). I think I am so into socks due to hours of matching missing socks when I was a kid.
My sis who just graduated from college often wears mismatched socks on purpose. I would buy her tons of socks and she would wear mismatches! Her rationale was that she can be atypical and not wear matched socks just because that is the thing to do. Luckily (as she majored in special ed) one of her instructors told her to stop that as it wasn't setting a good example for some of her students.
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One more thing, from when I was a direct care giver and worked on the night shift: we had to do the laundry. Consider the frustration in matching 1-2 pairs of socks for 20 people! (2 pairs if their socks got dirty during the day, etc) I hated matching socks at that job. (yes people had their intitals on the socks but the intitials weren't always legible)
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I like socks on me feet. In the winter, I need the warmth on my feet when I sleep. I usually wear plain white. I had a pair of Mickey Mouse socks with a santa hat that I really liked.
The school that I went to for 8th grade had a strictor dress code even than my previous Catholic School. They even dictated the color of socks. All of my classmates would roll down white socks. I felt that this was one place where you did not have to be like everybody else so I did not follow. A security guard seemed to mock me for wearing my socks upright. I told him that it was not the 1950's. Posts: 3434 | Registered: Feb 2005
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Wondering where is Pink Floyd, I recall him using his sock collection as proof that he was a fun loving person; back ever so long ago when some accused him of being a stick in the mud.
For myself I like cushy socks, none of that thin wimpy stuff for me.
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quote: As Ren & Stimpy informed us, there is actually a small island, a homeland, for which all left socks yearn. All the left socks in the world spend weeks, sometimes months, plotting to escape from their hated smelly-footed masters and their intolerable right-sock partners, and running away to this island, to live in peace, harmony and paradise with all the other left socks in the world.
Which is WHY, Wiz... That the RIGHT way to wash socks is in a lingerie bag... This keeps the sox all together. No CHANCE for escape... My family's sox are confined to "jail" until they are released to go to the dump! Posts: 6447 | Registered: Nov 2005
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quote: Wondering where is Pink Floyd, I recall him using his sock collection as proof that he was a fun loving person; back ever so long ago when some accused him of being a stick in the mud.
For myself I like cushy socks, none of that thin wimpy stuff for me.
Wow. What a memory. I don't remember that conversation at all. Although Pink BJ did bring me home some socks from "Down Under" with Australia stuff on them to add to my collection. I am sad. My Spiderman ones have developed a hole, and will have to be fixed. Darn it...
Can I offer a hint on keeping socks from getting lost in the wash? Train everyone to hook them together when they take them off. You hold the socks together matching the tops and open one of the socks and roll them together about half way down. Then put them in the hamper. They come apart automatically in the wash, but at least you know both of them made it to the washer.
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I always bought my kids white socks when they were little, I always had a match especially if they were wearing pants. The tube socks did not have stripes at the top, those belonged to thier father, and I never bought lacy ones to have to match up. All socks were put in a basket on the dryer and grabbed as needed. Shoes were black or tennis, and no child had more than 4 pairs (one dressy, one tennis, one flip-flop and possibly one more). Personally, I hate shoes and socks and never wear them, I do like nylons and wear knee highs under my longer skirts and go sockless/nylon-less otherwise. I reserve special, silky hose for Hick. Posts: 2121 | Registered: Oct 2005
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It's funny, this thread is about socks. And right now at work, we're trying to be in SOX compliance before our internal auditors come in next week.
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