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- all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. - clothes drying racks that hook onto radiators. Reduces drying time and clothes crumpling - wired mechanica
by pharmakom 4y ago
- all matching socks. No more time spent pairing.
- clothes drying racks that hook onto radiators. Reduces drying time and clothes crumpling
- wired mechanical keyboard. Wired is simpler than wireless. Quality ones have n-key support
- bicycle fenders
- digital wrist watch so that I check my phone less.
- jspash 4y agoI bought 3 packs of black wool socks about 10 years ago. I wear them almost exclusively throughout the year (cold feet) except for sports etc. Just recently I've replaced them all with 3 new packs of black wool socks. My life have never been simpler. See you in 2033 for the update!
- lostapathy 4y agoThis is how I operate with normal socks - I never buy a single pack of socks - I just do a "line change" and replace them all when the old rotation is too far gone to meet my needs. I have a few specialty items for exercise or dirty yard work, but those are easy to separate from the daily drivers.
- linuxftw 4y agoI call it the 'sock purge.' It was a game changer.
- sneak 4y ago"sock reboot". I do the same for underwear and t-shirts, too.
- basch 4y agosockpocalypse
- sethammons 4y agoMy exact term too!
- memcg 4y agoMy sons still wear socks I bought for myself 22 years ago. They also wear my 40 year old wedding and funeral dress shoes. My feet grew, so I can't wear either.
- ohazi 4y ago> - all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. Relatedly, replacing all of my cotton socks with wool socks.
- m348e912 4y agoI spent like 200 bucks on several pairs the same color smartwool socks and got rid of most of my cotton socks. One of the best decisions I have made.
- genezeta 4y agoI simply stopped pairing socks 30 years ago. I have experienced no ill effects wearing unmatched socks.
- shric 4y agoI don't mind them visually non-matching, but different materials/thickness, etc. is annoying
- Beltalowda 4y agoI've actually had quite a few people positively comment on my unmatched socks, including on dates. I now wear unmatched socks on purpose.
- trog 4y agoThis. Been doing this for almost two decades. 99.9 percent of the time nobody will notice. You almost have to draw attention to it deliberately before anyone notices. Any nobody ever cares - the sort of person who would you probably wouldn't want to be around anyway.
- foepys 4y agoA programmable keyboard is even better. Doesn't even need to be fully programmable via scripts, a simple macro functionality is usually enough. I mapped arrow keys and Home/End to Fn+WASD/QE and code navigation is so much faster now, especially when I have a hand on the mouse.
- sva_ 4y agoLet me introduce you to this crazy little program called vim...
- rgoulter 4y agoThey complement one another: using keyboard-driven programs, and having a good keyboard. Especially if you're willing to put effort into your tools: vim's sophistication requires effort to learn, but has advantages. I think the same can be said for fancy small keyboards.
- foepys 4y agoThe point is that my keyboard works everywhere, not just in some obscure programs that don't have tooling support for the domain I earn my money in.
- rgoulter 4y agoAnd a keyboard where your thumbs are able to use 2-3 keys each is better, still. :-)
- olau 4y agoIf you need to dry stuff really quick, get a little cheap desk fan of the kind sold in warm summers and point that to the wet stuff. I use it to dry out my children's boots.
- WithinReason 4y agoIf you put stuff next to your case fan it dries even faster
- lonelygirl15a 4y agoShove crinkled-up newspaper into the boots, it will absorb moisture and hasten drying (was taught this by an Icelandic hiking guide).
- cosmodisk 4y agoI used to have socks with 'Monday', 'Tuesday', etc. I used to wear them randomly. A lot of people used to notice it and comment why I'm with Friday socks even though it's only Tuesday:)
- harywilke 4y agoI have two sets of all matching socks. Winter and summer.
- jerome-jh 4y agoI already had fenders, but not this: https://www.printables.com/model/146449-bicycle-splash-guard https://www.printables.com/model/146449-bicycle-splash-guard Works great. I have a segment of unpaved road on my commute. Greatly improves trousers and shoes cleanliness.
- markfenton 4y agoA piece of plastic cut to that shape from a flexible chopping board or plastic milk jug works well too.
- yonaguska 4y agoHah, I went for automatic wrist watch, so my phone would interrupt me less.
- michaelcampbell 4y ago> all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. I KIND OF do this; I have a couple different brands with slightly different styles, but they're all black ankle socks so I don't care if one has a gold toe and one doesn't. Drives my wife mad, but it doesn't bother me and I'm either at home or wearing shoes, so...
- cdjk 4y agoThe all matching socks strategy breaks down over time. Eventually you need to buy more socks, and the new ones aren't as worn as the old ones, so you end up having to match them anyway. My solution to this is to buy a large batch of identical socks. Then when you need new ones, buy another large batch that are slightly different - e.g. grey hiking socks instead of black, or wool hiking socks that have a slightly different pattern but are still the same style. This reduces the matching problem from matching all pairs to matching into a couple different sets, which is much easier. I've thought too much about this.
- ilyt 4y agoI just buy bulk, discard ones that get holes, and when I'm too low throw them away all at once, if I can't buy the same
- fknorangesite 4y ago> you end up having to match them anyway You are clearly pickier about this than I am, hah.
- sowbug 4y agoI assume sock manufacturers are doing well post-pandemic. I still wore socks during lockdown, but not shoes. Most of my socks are ready to be retired.
- marcrosoft 4y agoSocks are so cheap I just throw them all out and get a new pack or two. It is like $6.99 once a year.
- theshrike79 4y agoStep 1) Buy 10-12 pairs of identical socks. Step 2) Wear socks, when any of them wear out, throw them away. Even a single sock, no need to throw away in pairs Step 3) When you're low in socks (my limit is 3 full pairs), throw them all away and GOTO 1 I do have a few specialised socks for hiking and winter, but they're the unicorns in the bunch, I just need 1-2 pairs of them.
- tibbon 4y agoI made all the clothes hangers in my house match. A simple change, but it felt so much better and more organized.
- clairity 4y agoyah, i bought 100 flat black hangers a few years ago (~$15 at ikea back then) so i could hang all of my casual clothing (rather than folding, which is more time-consuming). the flat ones allowed me to hang like 50% more stuff in the same space. my fancier clothes go on wooden hangers (also ikea) so they have more room to breathe.
- klondike_klive 4y agoI replaced all our hangers over years with wooden ones and not getting wire hangers tangled up or small plastic hangers messing up the shoulders on my t-shirts is well worth the expense. My girlfriend doesn't care, the barbarian, she will throw in a plastic or wire hanger from the drycleaners and I go full-on Joan Crawford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc
- theshrike79 4y agoWe standardised all hangers to wooden Ikea ones. You can get a fancy plastic top that makes them a bit wider for your better clothes.
- wintermutestwin 4y ago>all matching socks. I have 12 pairs of the same lightweight Darn Tough socks that are perfect for year round use (I don't live in snow). I've had them for ~10 years now and when a given sock gets a hole in the bottom, I put them in a pile and wait until I have 4 then send them back for two new pairs of socks. They were initially expensive, but after each being replaced a couple times, they are dirt cheap (even when factoring in one-way shipping). Thankfully, they have kept the exact same style all these years. Fingers crossed that they stay in business and that 80 year old me will have saved a lot of money by not buying socks.
- kornork 4y agoI tried this. I ended up with 11 pairs of threadbare socks and 1 new fluffy pair.
- agilob 4y ago>- all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. Around 5 or 7 years ago I found 100% cotton socks on a massive discount, don't remember how many, but I took more than 40 pairs, full backpack I had with me that day. I use them pretty much most of the year, except in summer. Never bought socks since and due to all that "mismatching", I only had to throw a few of them, they were shredded and composted.
- troyvit 4y agoOh cool, did you shred/compost yourself or is there a service for that? We compost everything we can but I have been throwing out clothes that I can't use for rags.
- agilob 4y agoI saw this practice on instructables. You can simply use old non-plastic socks as a protective bag for plants. Fill a sock with soil or compost, stick a branch/stem cutting, small tree, you know just anything that has fragile roots into the sock, stick it in soil. The sock will keep moisture a big longer and protect roots from worms eating them for a few months. It simply buys plants some time to grow. Eventually the sock will decompose. I planted 4 berries, a few yews and pines this way. I can't tell if this actually helps the plants, my sample size is too small, but doesn't seem to harm them. Some corporations like H&M accept donations of old clothes for recycling, in return they give you a voucher.
- kevmo314 4y agoThe Keychron K2 keyboard supports both wired and wireless so when it's at my desk it's wired but I can take it on the go and pair it with my laptop to use it wireless. It's a good medium :)
- spike021 4y agoI have the K2 V2 and it's actually really bad when being used for both wired and wireless. The issue I've mostly had (and found that others have as well), is if you run the battery to 0 using it on wireless mode, it won't even work on wired mode until it's fully recharged. Like you can't use it "offline".
- insane_dreamer 4y ago> - all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. after my son started wearing unmatching socks (and refuses to wear matching socks), I started doing the same and I'm now hooked. Granted these are unmatching socks of the same style (i.e., I have 5 pairs of Nordic socks) and I like just throwing them all in the box after laundry and pulling out 2 at random. Probably not going back to matching socks unless it's required :)