Socks (pt. 2)

[da]

Of 28 respondants in yesterday's sock poll:

13 will toss the holey sock right away (including 5 who toss its mate),
8 will keep wearing it indefinitely,
4 or so will put it somewhere hoping it'll get fixed or used as a rag,
and 3 are darners or have a darning grandma.

Cool.

My unhealthy curiosity about what happens in the privacy my friends' sock drawers is multi-part.

First, I had a theory that lots of people on my friends-list would hang onto the holey sock for various reasons; this was partly validated by 8 wearers, 4 stashers, and 3 darners. 15 in all. I had expected there to be a few darners, and fortunately there were- including fyddlestyx the Darning Queen! ("See that girl, watch that scene...")

Of the remaining 13 people who toss the holey sock, it seems possible as many as 6 or 8 will keep the non-holey sock even if it lacks a mate. This is the other question I was curious about. Against my attempts to buy bulk identical socks, I have a fairly large number of not-quite-matching black socks, which I'll pair that way, and suffer the occasional rolled eyes from my sweetie. I figure it's one of those things we both put up with. ;) But I intentionally didn't ask whether people tossed just the holey one, to see if people would write that in, and they did.

I didn't ask how frequently people have holey socks. I came to the realization recently that I've had a batch of holey socks in my drawer for a really long time. I blame my last pair of boots, which not only gave me blisters on my heel, but wore holes in my socks, always in the same place, at the top of the heel. So I'm due for a holey-sock purge some time soon; which I've been resistant to do since it's probably about a dozen socks to be tossed. (Maybe it's time to make a pillow from them, as dawn_guy suggested?)

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I might keep the non-holey sock if it had a mate, but I tend not to buy multiple pairs of the same sock.

And yes, I do suffer through your socks not matching, but not much.

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

Dan, put those unpaired socks out of their misery for Daniel!

A related question/poll: what about missing socks (which is much bigger of a problem for me, since I throw out both socks if one has a hole). But, if I finish the laundry and one is missing somehow (where DO they go?) then I put the other in the drawer and it will sometimes sit there for months.

And yet ANOTHER sock poll:
* throw them all into a drawer willy-nilly, unpaired
* throw them all into the drawer willy-nilly, but paired up
* neatly folded in the drawer
* balled
* other