This post is not for sock fashionistas. You know, those happy-go-lucky souls with the cool/crazy/stylish socks that match every outfit and mood and holiday and election year? Nope. Those people are happy in their own little sock world thank you very much and we’ll just let them be. But for the rest of us, we just want socks that are (1.) comfortable, (2.) hole-free, (3.) clean, and (4.) available when we want them without having to sort through 32 almost-same color, almost-same design, or outright mismatched single socks. The how many part of this project is easy. It just depends on how often you do laundry. Once a week = seven pairs unless you wear socks more than once, which is totally OK by me. Need socks for work and different socks for athletic endeavors? Then you need seven of each kind. But now comes the super important part, the most important sock secret you will ever learn. Ready? Buy all the same socks. If you don’t want to spend your life sorting socks and trying to find missing mates, there is only one solution. Identical socks. The exact same. Because then you can just dump those puppies into your sock drawer after doing laundry and be done with it. Sorting? Not around here. Lost sock? Who cares, you have more. Ah, but what about the different colored socks needed for khaki pants, blacks pants, navy pants and so on around the color wheel? You don’t need seven of each color because you don’t wear the same color pants each day, right? Now, it’d make life much easier if you did wear the same color each day, so you may want to consider this. My oldest son lives in SF where they are super cool and way ahead of the rest of us. He wears jeans. Every day. A blackish shirt. Every day. Tech people in SF, you see, have no time or energy to waste on clothes because they are crazy busy redefining how technology will be used by The Rest of Us. My son buys 15 pairs or so of the exact same socks, which enables him to save every single solitary brain cell for Important SF Tech Stuff. Does he care what socks he's wearing? Nope. Unfortunately, my husband wears all four basic pants colors. I wish he’d stick to the same color, but no, he won’t. Says it would look like he’s wearing the same pants every day. Says coworkers would notice. Geez-o-Pete, right? So if you can’t get your family to wear one pant color, you’ll have to have a few socks for each color pants they wear. Bob has three or so pairs of socks per pants color, which enables him to alternate pants, which makes him happy. But still, I buy the same sock for each color. Yes, you still have to sort by color, but that, you have to admit, doesn’t use a whole lot of brain cells. Have young kids? It’s even more important to buy matching socks because kid socks are too dang little to futz around with. When my kids were little, I bought the older son grey and the younger son white. When the older passed the gray to the younger, I got rid of the younger’s white and bought white for the older. Repeated this for years. No sorting, except by color. No matching at all. The kids could grab their own color from the laundry basket and toss them in their drawers. Done and done. Comments are closed.
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