There was a time in my life when all my socks had holes in them, because sock money didn't come easy. Took a while after those days ended for me to realise I can buy socks that go all the way around my foot any time I want.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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Take it to a whole new fucking level dude: subscriptions socks delivery.
🤯 I had no idea that was a thing!
I mean if it’s not you and I are gonna be rich
Yeah, because my wife and I are pieces of shit and put off laundry until I have no other option.
[alarms screaming, red lights pulsing all over the bridge]
“Thirty seconds to impact!”
“Captain, if we don’t begin laundry now we won’t have time to fold. We could lose the entire load”
“Acknowledged, Lieutenant Worf”
“Shall I order Engineering to begin loading the machines?”
“Twenty seconds to impact!”
“Negative. Data are you still hailing them?”
“No response, sir”
“Worf. Detergent”
“Yes, sir” [his hands fly across the controls] “Pod is loaded”
“Commence laundry on my mark”
“Ten seconds to impact!”
“Awaiting your order sir”
“Hold, Lieutenant”
“Sir …”
“…”
“Five seconds!”
“now”
Adjust the timescale to days or even weeks, and this isn't too far off.
"Captain, I have no more shirts left in this basket of wrinkled laundry we did three weeks ago. I'm down to my last pair or underwear."
"Alright. Let's do one load, fold it, and never put it away in our drawers."
I do. But then I forget about it when I take them off and the cycle continues.
This guy blazeknaves
I tear them to pieces. Not giving them a chance to trick me again.
Same. If I can get two fingers in the hole, I rip the sock in half. And it becomes a ring rag.
Depends on whether the socks are paired up. If I grab a pair, I feel like I’m committed so this is their last chance (assuming I remember at the end of the day). If a sock was just thrown in the drawer and I still need to search for a pair, it goes immediately
Nope, straight into the garbage. I have a garbage in my bedroom.
Like others I have many socks of the same type. Why would I wear a sock that has failed in its purpose?
Same with underwear.
You people need to get your lives in order.
You people need to get your lives in order.
Says the guy with garbage in his room
Having a garbage in your bedroom is much better than having many of the same socks
I'm kinda surprised you can see us peasants from that high horse.
You people need to get your lives in order.
A bit over the top given the context lol.
I mean, I'm the same. They have a whole? I'll throw them away. But I don't immediately consider people who wear socks with holes in them not to have their lives in order provided with only that info about them.
I think they were being hyperbolic
Yes. I refuse to tag my sarcasm.
I do that routine of keeping worn out clothes and I'll wear the whole set to get dirty/muddy/damaged/radioactive/whatever. I'll go ahead and get the crap clothes all dirty and sweaty, then just chuck 'em.
Or, I have been known to cut worn out T-shirts into rags, and I've scrubbed the bathtub with worn out socks.
Think the DSM term for that is “harmless self-delusion” bc ain’t nobody throwing that sock away. Goes in the laundry hamper, and we repeat the ciiircle of…. Oh wait. You know what i mean.
There was a time, years ago when I was a bachelor and had more disposable income than I had any idea what to do with. I decided which brand of sock I liked and I bought 50 pairs at least. I threw away every pair of white socks I owned. I had a good solid run, 50 days of brand new socks. I did an entire laundry run a little bleach and 49 pairs of socks. I got him out of the dryer there I was with 47 pairs of socks. If any of the socks got a hole or a serious stain I had so many of them I just threw them away no regrets. They were all the same socks so it didn't matter if I lost one. Eventually through magic sock demons and probably some washer and dryer attrition, The horde dwindled. I got down into the '30s. They were starting to get a little ragged. I eventually went and bought another couple packs. I don't feel bad about torching socks though It's my guilty pleasure.
Yes!! This is the way. It's so nice to have a ton of matching socks and not running out of clean ones frequently. I do the same with underwear and have found that I end up having to do laundry way less frequently using this strat
Yes but I then forget to throw them out so I end up wearing them until they literally become unusable.
IDK if it's calluses or what but my heels will wear through damn near anything in a pretty short time. Noticed a small hole in a sock once and by the end of the day the entire heel had worn through. Once wore through the heels of a $40 pair of sandals in just a couple months. I didn't have any money at the time to replace them, so I just covered the worn area with duct tape. That lasted less than a week.
It's how you walk. You have a prominent heel strike in your gait, and it's causing more wear on the shoe gear in that specific spot. This style of walking with a heavy calcaneal foot strike will eventually give you pain in the knees, hips, and shoulders. You'll want to switch to a more natural walking motion, where your forefoot hits the ground at the same time or before your heel hits the ground.
Holes in socks make me crazy. I learned it the hard way focusing all my energy of a whole day on one damn hole…
Since then I always change them ASAP. Usually my socks wear evenly. So most of the time they are worn completely when there is a hole and it doesn’t make any sense to repair them.
They will get a last wash and land in a bin in my garage where I use worn clothes instead of paper towels. Socks are very handy for dirty stuff like holding motorcycle chains.
Apparently Darn Tough socks have lifetime warranties. I have 4-5 socks knotted up out of 10 that got big toe holes. They'll get sent in sometime...
I just looked it up and my first pair of darn tough socks are 7 years old with no signs of failing. I feel like I got my money’s worth. I’m not sure I would even make a warranty claim at this point.
I buy 10-12 pairs of the same sock. They all go in the same drawer, unmatched. Socks do not have a left/right, so if one gets a hole or what not, it becomes a rag and I don't even notice its gone.
I bought a pack of 7 recently after reading comments on Lemmy about wearing socks more than one day is horrible. I'm glad I didn't tell anyone I changed my weekly. :/
I do about the same, but I have 2 huge differently sized feet (birth defect) 1 foot is 4 eu sizes smaller then the other. I usually buy 2 pairs size 39-42 and 2 43-46, so I have 4 pairs of 1 small and 1 large sock.
Alas, the large socks are usually the ones that develop holes 1st.
If it's so consistent, I'd just buy an extra pair of the large ones.
That'll outlive the small ones as well. I usually just buy the same amount of large and small socks and usually at least 2 pair of each, so I end p up with 4+ of the same sets. They'll dwindle down to 1 pair in the end. One ship is even so nice to put the size in the socks, 39-42 in yellow and 43-46 in blue. (there is even a cheap shop that does the same, but those sock don't match, 39-42 with horizondal lines and 43-46 with vertical lines... why would those need sizes in them ;) )
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