Socks

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[Poll #891868]

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[says-simon.livejournal.com]

Being the first to reply to you Sock Poll, I obviously have nothing else do to.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I usually buy, say, half a dozen identical pairs at a time so when a sock gets a hole I toss it but keep its sibling.

[nobodyhere.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

[catbear.livejournal.com]

I just toss the one with a hole in it, because its mate probably matches another sock in my drawer.

At some point I'll have all non-matching socks, but by then I figure I'll be old enough to not care if my socks match or not.

[dpolicar]

...where "indefinitely" means "until Paulo gets sick of tolerating my wrongness in this matter and quietly discards the sock in question."

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I continue to wear it until the hole gets big enough to be annoying or one of my boyfriends gives me a hard time about it. Then I toss it under the sink, where it will pretend to be a rag until I remember that socks with holes are not very useful for polishing things and throw it out (common) or actually use it in cleaning (rare).

(I might have picked answer 2, but I can't stand rotated socks and the hole always develops under the ball of the foot, not the heel...)

[tbiedl.livejournal.com]

Toss one, give the other to the dog to play with. (Or the toddlers in my case, but that doesn't apply to you.)

[elbieinwaterloo.livejournal.com]

Why not give the holed one to the dog, and keep the other?

[chezmax]

I usually let the sock develop the hole for a day or two until it's uncomfortable or unusable, then throw out the *sock*, not the pair :)

[psychedelicbike.livejournal.com]

Throw out the holey sock, as long as I have at least one other pair that matches. If I don't, I pitch the pair. Sock material, in my opinion, does not make a good rag.

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

When you've got pie, you don't care whether socks match.

I might wear the sock once or twice after the hole starts, until it's clear the sock is not going to heal itself, then toss it. Socks are too cheap and my time too full for proper darning (unless you count "darn, I got a hole in another sock!" as darning) but I won't toss a sock that's not holey just because it got widowed.

If I were the sort who makes pillows out of washcloths, I'd probably save the sock, like I used to save my pantyhose. Yes, I wore pantyhose (and made throw pillows stuffed with failed ones) in a former life.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

When you've got pie, you don't care whether socks match.

So true.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

It kind of depends on the hole, but I'll note that the majority of my sock holes do not happen at the heel.

I recently used one to repair my wallet. :)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to picture how a sock could help repair a wallet, and it doesn't work for me. ...isn't the fabric too thin to be durable in the pocket? Or are these leather socks? :)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

It was a hemp change purse with a thin fabric liner inside. The liner disintegrated over time, but right at the time I decided I had to do something about it, I had a sock develop a hole behind the ankle. So I washed the sock and then cut the toe off and replaced the liner with the same amount of material from the toe end of the sock. It worked out really well.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

If the sock matches others in my drawer, i toss the holey one, if not, i toss the pair. I fond old towels and the like are better rags than socks.

I have a very few pairs that i have darned by a friend, those ones are wool and useful sometimes in the winter, such as we have winter here; i've rarely used the wool ones since i lived in Boston - twice i think.

[insaint.livejournal.com]

I usually darn them (provided I can get access to thread/needle at the time). It's a silly comfort thing. I used to darn my socks as I was growing up and I like the process.

Been a while since any of my socks developed holes, though. Usually they just go MIA in the laundry.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I plan to toss it, but instead stick it in a pile where it accidentally lands back in the sock drawer, or clutters up the dresser for months, or otherwise gets on my nerves.

I AM the darning queen!

[fyddlestyx.livejournal.com]

Yup.. I darn them... well.. if they're wool, and I've made them, or someone else has made them. I've become known as the darning queen so much, that Ann's mom now gives me her socks to darn, plus I darn Ann's socks too, and yeah, if you live near me and hand me a pair of nice handknit socks that have a hole, I'll likely darn them for you if you beg enough.

course Pie works well too as a bribe. ;-)

and what's up with Pie? Is this the new thing? My son introduced me to Weeble and Bob last year after he was walking around all the time saying 'mmmm.....PIE'

Re: I AM the darning queen!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Pie == a box to check when nothing else appeals as much as just ticking something. At least it means that to me.

I'd never heard of weebl & bob before you'd mentioned them, but google did. Weird. ;)

I didn't know I knew the darning queen!

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

Put the pair with one holey sock away in the laundry room. Sooner or later, another pair will develop holes, so you toss the two bad socks and make a good pair. That works because I usually buy a bunch of identical socks. When the last pair develops a hole in one sock, I toss the pair. So I both help the economy by buying socks when I could maybe fix them and destroy the economy by trashing socks that could be fixed (by not rewarding better materials that could be fixed, or would last longer etc because I'm buying the cheaper stuff, 'cuz y'know, it will get trashed anyway). It's very zen. But I don't do it for that reason, I do it because I'm a lame ass. :-P

(And yes, I'm catching up from over a week of not reading LJ. Which is why I haven't been answering surveys or telling friends "Happy Birthday". Again, 'cuz I'm lame. Not that that is a good excuse, but it's true.)