My sock drawer is impossible! How do you manage yours?

[CTyankee]

Mine are almost all black but I seem to have ones that don't match others. I only have a few that are perfectly matched.

Am I the only one who has a drawer FULL of black socks that don't match?

I know I need to get a grip....

[SheltieLover]

1. I don't manage a sock drawer. I wear sandals all year.

But, when I did, I didn't care whether socks matched.

[CTyankee]

2. I know. I have too much time on my hands. Nobody looks funny at me. I gotta get a grip...

[SheltieLover]

4. I believe at least for a while, it was a trendy thing to have mismatched socks. Like they sold them in pairs that way.

not sure if they still do.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

[3catwoman3]

15. A few years back, most of the school age girls I saw...

...at the pediatric office were wearing mismatched socks. One of the moms told me that there was a store called Mixie's that sold socks in sets of 3 - a mix of patterns in the same color combos, like plaid, polka dots, and flowers all in pink and orange, or blue and green, etc. No longer in business.

[SheltieLover]

16. Sounds cute, but I guess the fad didn't last.

Thx for sharing.

[Captain Zero]

3. Throw some away, others can be dusting cloths. (I dust like 5 times a year.)

heh heh

[CTyankee]

7. what a great idea! I'll try that!

[3catwoman3]

17. I used to have a sign hanging from my closet door knob that said -

You may touch the dust,
But please don't write in it.

With 4 cats, there are times when you could.

[Intractable]

5. Best thing I ever did was buy a huge bag of matching socks from Costco.

Now, after the laundry, making pairs out of socks is easy.

Lose one? There's plenty more where that came from.

[CTyankee]

9. good idea. I'll start by throwing some out first.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. Wear hi-tops, mismatched socks won't show?

[Ocelot II]

8. I don't. All my socks are different so I have no trouble finding pairs.

[pandr32]

10. Sometimes socks make a run for it somewhere during the laundry cycle.

You might see them sometimes run over in the road or drowned in a muddy puddle. Still, some must make it to freedom and a match with another rebellious sock in a far off secret place.

[MLAA]

11. Keep 7 pairs and re-home the rest!

It worked for me.

[kimbutgar]

12. About every 6 months I go in my drawer and rematch the socks the strays ones

I keep a bag in my cabinet that sometimes if I find the match to that stray sock I rematch them. And I also put my dirty socks in a zippered washable bag and it eliminates that missing sock. My husband has his own bag he puts his socks in. So when I do laundry I can pair his up after washing.

[CTyankee]

13. good idea about a zippered bag.

I won't lose socks on the few steps from my laundry room to my bedroom where I fold the laundry. I'll go to Amazon and get a zippered bag now!

[WestMichRad]

14. Wait... What? They're s'pposta match??

Who knew??

[CTyankee]

18. Yes. That's why you buy them in a pair, not singly.

And they are different weights, too. Some are warmer and those you wear in winter to keep your feet warm. Some are lighter weight and those you wear in the summer when it's hot.

[Phentex]

20. This may be why I have so many

was going to answer your original message but it got me thinking about why I have so many! I have lighter weight socks, warmer socks, cotton socks, wool socks, athletic socks, non skid socks for walking around the house, knee socks, Muppet socks for fun, slipper socks, dress socks - and perhaps this is why I have a drawer full of socks! I don't really manage them. I try to wash socks only with other socks and underwear which seems to have cut back on finding single socks stuck to other clothes.

[Skittles]

19. I have the same issue

I do all my laundry at home so where do these effing socks go???

[tavernier]

21. Tie them all in a long rope

in case you ever have to escape from a window.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

22. All black

not paired up in any way.......no problem. Throw 'em in and forget 'em.

[Tree Lady]

23. I have to hold my navy and black socks

Up to the light or I think they are same color.

I refuse to sew any holes and socks do not last anymore so I am ending up with all these 1 socks and save because I buy a lot of the same kind.

I sort them by color and type, knee high very few, ankle and just above that.

[CTyankee]

24. This makes sense. I got into confusion by saving all of my socks, rather than "weeding" them out now and then.

[NNadir]

25. I hate to disagree but your sock draw is possible.

What may be impossible is a sock draw where all the socks match.

The latter is consistent with my experience.

[Goonch]

26. ;-{)...SHOE ILLUSION SOCKS

[TexasTowelie]

27. Matching socks isn't complicated for me anymore,

but I had my right foot amputated. I actually have one drawer for pairs while the other drawer is for singles.

[irisblue]

28. I have a honeycomb sock storage unit in the drawer about $10/kohls

Pack up all the old socks, take them to a homeless shelter, get 8 new black ones.

[AllaN01Bear]

29. i roll my soxks, unders and shirts toghether and stuff them in a hanging shoe rack. :)

[fargone]

30. Years ago I started buying the same brand of black sox

So any two are a matched pair . I confess I have one pair left from the previous era but they have white toes and heels and are easy to spot. I read somewhere recently that lost sox come back as tupperware lids that don't fit anything.