For the true laundryphobe, you can buy socks in bulk for less than a dollar a pair. Just wear a new pair every day and throw them out when you're done. I don't

For the true laundryphobe, you can buy socks in bulk for less than a dollar a pair. Just wear a new pair every day and throw them out when you're done. I don't actually do this, FWIW, but talking about it is a fantastic way to annoy an environmentalist at a bar. I often threaten to create a startup around the "disposable clothing subscription" idea, 9 out of 10 at the table are horrified by the wastefulness or think it's ridiculous that people consider matching socks to be a nuisance at all, but that last person is so lazy that they'd almost consider it if the price was right. I suspect it probably wouldn't make a great subscription business, pack/ship costs would make the margins really tight if you wanted to stay around the $1/pair price point (and you'd be sourcing really crummy socks even to get there), so I think you'd have to go pretty far up-market. Who knows, maybe that could work (it looks like a ton of sock-of-the-month premium subscription box things do exist), though probably not for daily disposable socks.