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Forever I just threw my dirty socks in the hamper loose. Occasionally I would notice a pair no longer seemed to be in cirulation. Que the old dryer eating socks joke…

But then a while back I ran across a basket full of odd socks my wife kept, There must of been 30 or 40 of them!!! Mostly hers, some mine, but no mates. She must have been saving them for years!

So in an effort to help I started mating my dirty socks together before throwing in the hamper. Too soon to determine if it helps or not but at least they are together as long as possible. I think they got into separate wash loads before on occasion.

So the question. Is this something people normally do or not?

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Do you mate your DIRTY socks?

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Of course I do you heathen.
Nope.
Socks?

 



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I don't want more dirty socks so I only mate the clean ones. Razz
 
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When it's time for new socks I buy a few packages and shit can the rest. I hate having socks that don't match. I have 2 types of socks, gold toe white and gold toe black. Same with glad-ware plastic containers. All the same or nothing.
 
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why save that crap,socks are cheap? !!!
 
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why save that crap,socks are cheap? !!!


Your socks are one-time use and then throw aways? I don't think that's what you meant. Wink
 
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That's what wives are for.


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I buy a large amount of the same type of sock. If one bites the dust, I set the good sock aside then bide my time until I have another bad sock. Then, as if by magic, I have a pair of good socks again!
No need to match. They all look the same.


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When it's time for new socks I buy a few packages and shit can the rest. I hate having socks that don't match. I have 2 types of socks, gold toe white and gold toe black. Same with glad-ware plastic containers. All the same or nothing.


Considered that actually.



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I don't want more dirty socks so I only mate the clean ones. Razz

For The Win, right out of the chute. When all the wash is done if any don’t have mates, put them aside. The mates generally show up in a pocket, pant leg, or sweatshirt sleeve before long.
 
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I buy a large amount of the same type of sock. ...snip...

Yup. Makes laundry day easy.



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Of course not.

However I never buy a single pair of socks. I always get multiples of the same. So if I get an odd sock, I save it. Either it's mate shows up, or I'll odd another one of the same batch, and it will get matched up again. I will sometimes intentionally odd a sock, if I find a sock with a big enough hole in it. The holier than thou sock gets tossed, but it's mate goes into the odd pile.
 
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Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

I wear boots. Nobody sees my socks but me. As long as they’re kind of a similar color and thickness, I just put them together. Thus far, nothing bad has happened.
 
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I don't mate them per say, but they go from my feet into the washer as a pair. Somehow they still seem to disappear in the dryer from time to time.




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I replied 'nope'. I buy a 12 pack of new socks once a year and throw the old socks away as necessary.

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I hardly ever wear socks, to the point that I wore a pair last week and the wife got all confused. In real cold weather I'll wear them but they pretty much match themselves, all Smartwool, different color or weight.


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Buy them by the dozen. They all match.



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Originally posted by 45 Cal:
why save that crap,socks are cheap? !!!


Your socks are one-time use and then throw aways? I don't think that's what you meant. Wink


Actually a good friend ....a very single type of fellow does big new socks instead of washing them.
 
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As long as they’re kind of a similar color and thickness, I just put them together. Thus far, nothing bad has happened.

Dude, you are playing with fire. Only a matter of time until you get burned! Razz
 
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It's a vast left wing conspiracy to prevent all socks from being the same, otherwise we would be universally freed from this everlasting curse of sock mating. GDCs.




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I do. I mate them when I take them off. My wife hates it and fusses every laundry day. My mother instructed me to do so at an early age and after 20 years of marriage I can’t not do it. I assume they get separated before they go into the wash.

I’ve never done my own laundry so it’s a mystery to me. I’ve always had my mother, a girlfriend, a maid, or my now wife of 20 years do the laundry.

All I can do with the washer or dryer is repair it.




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