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I have 18 pairs of the same sock. I found that the most efficient way. YMMV.
by SlyShy 12y ago
I have 18 pairs of the same sock. I found that the most efficient way. YMMV.
- quarterto 12y agoProbably more efficient is to not give a shit about the possibility of wearing odd socks. Which I don't.
- AhtiK 12y agoIsn't this making it especially more complex because now you have to match based on wear, not just the pattern? With different patterns it's easier as the wear is constant for each pair. OCD mileage may vary :)
- irremediable 12y agoI upvoted because you make an interesting point, but I'm surprised to hear anybody matches socks that carefully! Also, wouldn't the wear work out to be roughly equal if you alternate socks roughly equally?
- privong 12y ago> Also, wouldn't the wear work out to be roughly equal if you alternate socks roughly equally? My guess is that this is a poisson process, so there would be a tail of (a few) socks which are randomly worn more than others?
- Jtsummers 12y agoSocks that haven't been worn between the last time you've done laundry and the most recent time end up at the bottom of the drawer. So the worn socks get picked again and reworn before the ones at the bottom of the drawer. Then one week you skip laundry, everything ends up in the wash the next week and you realize that you have very different wear levels on your socks.
- prawks 12y agoInteresting, hadn't thought about it that way. Definitely bugs me when I wear two socks of the same color/brand/etc. that fit differently due to age.
- randlet 12y agoI do pretty much the same thing (although I have two colours :) Since you don't ever pair any of your socks the wear is fairly even since you are picking two random socks every morning. If a single sock gets a hole in it you just throw it out!
- IgorPartola 12y agoI do the same thing and I buy socks in large batches replacing old batches. This is by far the best life hack I have implemented. My socks are comfortable, versatile and I never need to worry about pairing. I did this after literally seeing how my upright washing machine swallowed a sock between the drum and the drum container. I never took it apart to see how many lone socks are left there.
- TallGuyShort 12y agoIf you really had OCD, you would always do laundry, pull the contents of your sock drawer forward, put clean socks at the back, and only take socks from the front. Problem solved.
- Loughla 12y agoIf you really had OCD, you would do laundry, wash your hands to avoid spreading diseases to your family, pull the contents of your sock drawer forward, wash your hands to avoid spreading diseases to your family, put clean socks at the back, wash your hands to avoid spreading diseases to your family, and only take socks from the front, after you have washed your hands to avoid spreading diseases to your family. Problem solved, if the problem has been washed, of course.
- zeckalpha 12y agoI have two sock drawers. One for drawing from and one for depositing to. When the draw pile is empty, switch.
- dalore 12y agoNo because you bought them all at the same time and washed them all at once. And you did the same activity each day resulting in the same wear for each sock. If you're that OCD, you would.
- zhte415 12y agoBut is it pairs of the right foot's sock, or the left foot's sock?
- cben 12y agoAn obvious solution is buying 2 batches of different colors, always wearing random green on left leg and random orange on right. Problem solved ;-)
- chollida1 12y agoMeta warning... That breaks down in the world of finance:) For some reason, it was decided that people would be judged based on the socks that they wear. I guess when you have to wear a suite each day you need to differentiate yourself and after a watch socks are the next best way?