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Little Hawk 15 May 07 - 03:59 PM
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Subject: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 03:59 PM

Anyone got any tips on how best to do this?


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:04 PM

I bought a sock organizer from Lakeland - but you still have to put them in pairs first!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:07 PM

So you pair them up, throw then in and the Lakeland thing organizes them for you? Cool, gotta get me one of those.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:10 PM

go by thickness, makes it easier to grab a pair in the dark.... hmmm


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:13 PM

Buy all the same colour and type of sock. Then it doesn't matter.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Scoville
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:18 PM

Why?

I don't. I pair them up and throw them all in in a pile. Unless one is colorblind, why do socks need to be more organized than that?


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Amos
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:21 PM

I don't believe you started this thread, Little Hawk. Go to your room.


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:22 PM

Buying all the same colour and type doesn't always work. Black socks seem to come in different shades of black and they can still look odd. It's even more difficult putting them in pairs than if they were all different colours.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Penny S.
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:36 PM

You can get little clips to put on the socks before they enter the washing machine. Then, when washed and dried, put the toes together, roll the socks up, and then pull the top of one of them over the roll like a cuff. You didn't want to know that, did you?

Penny


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:37 PM

Oh.

Plan B: Always wear mismatched socks, then it won't matter.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:43 PM

"Organizing your sock drawer..."

AFL-CIO. Socks deserve to have their hands in unions, too.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Scoville
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:44 PM

Wear boots. Nobody will ever see your socks so even people who might otherwise judge for having mismatched socks will never know.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:47 PM

Put them all in your washing machine and you only ever get one of each pair back, so chuck the odd ones in the drawer and use odd socks each day!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:47 PM

PART DEUX: Organizing your boot drawer...


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:56 PM

Oh, come now, Amos! This is a burning subject that desperately needs indepth analysis by the keener minds on this forum. ;-)

Good for a few laughs too.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Scoville
Date: 15 May 07 - 04:59 PM

I've never lost a sock in the wash. Never. I must be special.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Bert
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:02 PM

That's 'cos you've only got ONE sock Scoville!!!

Buy all the same colour and type of sock. That's what I do, I only buy black socks, but I still have a drawer full of odd ones.   I don't worry though 'cos if they don't match exactly nobody notices. Or they are too polite to mention it.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:19 PM

Old friend of mine only ever wore odd socks ! If he pulled a matching pair out , he would always put one back ! He was a good Muso too !!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Amos
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:21 PM

Hell, Bert, in your case I would guess it goes way beyond socks , and that you have a whole lifetime full of odd ones!!! :D


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:26 PM

I've been thinking about this...

Suppose that instead of wearing separate socks we extended the traditional sock to make a full "body sock" that would cover the entire body, up to say...the waist...or even the neck.

This would eliminate the problem of odd socks for good!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:29 PM

Up to the waist, isn't that pretty much panty hose?


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:31 PM

It's really simple.

1. I buy all my socks the same color, and toss them in the drawer.

2. For an incredibly formal occasion, I might poke around a bit to find a second one that's faded about the same as the first one I pick up.

3. Usually I just try to get a second one with a similar number of holes (to keep things balanced when I limp).

4. I wear long pants, so it doesn't much matter.

I usually try to wear two shoes that are at least similar to each other, but sometimes agonize over whether matching colors or matching shapes is more important for the occasion.

John


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:31 PM

It's what he wears on Friday nights . . . .


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:35 PM

It is important not to wear 2 left shoes. People tend to make comments, specially in Washington, D.C. And, besides, it makes walking a bit awkward.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Mo the caller
Date: 15 May 07 - 06:09 PM

UK shops delight in selling socks in sets of 3 pairs that NEARLY match!
Same pattern, same colour, slightly different shades. GRRRR.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Becca72
Date: 15 May 07 - 06:40 PM

Of course, this problem becomes much larger when there are more than just socks in the drawer...I have all my "unmentionables" in the same drawer. Oh, damn...I just mentioned them.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 06:43 PM

Well, get them out! That has to HURTTTT.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 May 07 - 07:10 PM

Well, here are a whole bunch of possibilities. But how about just turning a light on before you get the socks out? Finding a pair is kinda hard in the dark, even for those of us who are not cursed blessed with living in the Land of the Midnight Sun.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Bert
Date: 15 May 07 - 07:21 PM

...you have a whole lifetime full of odd ones...

Of course I do, I'm a Mudcatter!!!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's
Date: 15 May 07 - 08:52 PM

That's not so, Bert. I'm a big fan of socks. I've got lots of socks in different colors and patterns. Besides, cowboy boots are really uncomfortable without socks.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Gurney
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:32 AM

When I was a flatting batchelor, all my socks were the same brand and in brown or black. 3 socks meant that you had a pair for certain.
Nowadays I have someone who sorts them out for me, but as I say to her, "You bought all these different colours, why blame me?"

Little Hawk, you should perhaps follow the younger fashions of today. They seem to have half a yard of trouserleg piled up on top of their (grubby) shoes. They MAY wear socks. Some of them have trousers that need sole-and-heeling.

Hey, have we nothing better to do than give advice on sock drawers????


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:42 AM

I organise my sock drawer by keeping it in the bedroom drawer cabinet which also contains drawers holding underwear and handkerchiefs.
Does that help you LH?
Quack!
GtD.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 May 07 - 04:32 AM

I only wear socks in winter, knee high black socks & as folks have said before they can fade to different shades of black.

So, when I have too many holey, darned socks, and have to open a new pair, I sew a few small stitches of coloured thread near the toe & have no trouble matching socks! Except when I've used the same colour thread on another pair. Then it's match shades of black!!

A certain Ozcatter also wears black socks (I'm reliably informed) & just grabs 2 socks, regardless of whether one is a cushioned black sports sock, or a thin nylon ankle sock, or a knee high sock. We dunno how this Ozcatter walks.

Oh, I forgot, they are folded in half & laid in rows in a drawer in my dressing table.

In case this makes me sound organised, my sock drawer is about the only bit of organisation in this place.

Further mess will ensue next week when my two new 6' x 5' bookcases arrive & I empty out the rest of the contents of the 2 old bookcases. One has a broken shelf & some contents are already on the floor, joining the stuff that lives there permanently.

sandra


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 May 07 - 04:34 AM

I'm so organised I don't wear socks!

Well, not very often... and we have a basket of 'smalls' on top of the washer where all small things are put. This gets cleared out when a) no-one can find any socks and b) when it overflows down the back of the machine. We call it Soxfam.

Les Barker wrote a wonderful poem about odd socks in 'Get a dog and Barker yourself'.

Buying many identical pairs doesn't work. The trick is to get the most different socks you can find, so that nothing is similar. Or just wear odd socks a lot.

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:03 AM

I always keep my golfing socks in a seperate drawer....they are the pairs that have 'a hole in one'


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: JennyO
Date: 16 May 07 - 08:07 AM

No prizes for guessing who the 'certain Mudcatter' is, Sandra. John's 'matching' of socks is so bizarre that I have come to the conclusion that it is not accidental - he is being rebellious and making a statement.

Most of his socks are either brown or black, but they are so different in size, thickness and shades of black/brown that it's really obvious (to me anyway) when they don't match. He has a bunch of brown ones that he calls grey, and for some reason, two of them are about twice as long as all the others. There is another medium length pair, and a couple of short pairs which actually are interchangeable. But he thinks nothing of wearing a short one with a long one. I try to tune out and not notice for my sanity.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Scoville
Date: 16 May 07 - 09:03 AM

Sock Dreams. Fun socks.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:08 PM

I have 2 drawers full, 'good, matched socks', "old and not-so-comfy socks that will do when wearing boots"

...and a box in a closet called "socks too worn, weird or uncomfortable to keep". Guess which one has the most socks in it.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:16 PM

You can never organize a sock door. Fourteen seconds after your close the drawer they mix themselves up; they're perverse that way.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 16 May 07 - 02:32 PM

Most of my socks are black. A few are brown.
No problem.

Russ (Permanent GUEST)


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:23 PM

People rarely bother to look both your feet at the same time, so why worry?

If you do worry, just buy black socks in future. No one is ever going to get down on all fours to check they are the same knitting pattern.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:40 PM

But in Summer, McGrath, we'll all be wearing our sandals and rolling our trouser legs up. How could anyone NOT notice our socks being different shades of grey and of widely varying length?
Quack!
GtD.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: bobad
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:54 PM

Isn't it against the law to wear socks with sandals?


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:09 PM

It's against my religion to have sandals chafe my feet, so I 'usually' wear nice, patterned socks with them.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:12 PM

O.K to wear socks with sandals as long as they match the knotted handkerchief


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:19 PM

The practice of wearing socks with sandals is often believed to have been introduced into Britain by the Romans, so that it is one aspect of Roman culture which has been preserved within the former province.

On the other hand it is claimed by some that it was a pre-existing British custom which was taken up by Roman soldiers garrisoned here who found the climate a bit chilly. That actually seems more likely to me.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Scoville
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:29 PM

It's against my religion to have sandals chafe my feet

Amen. I'm sick of people griping about socks with sandals. They can blister their feet all they want, but, damn the fashion police, I want to be comfortable.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Amos
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:30 PM

I believe wearing socks with sandals was introduced to nouveau-riche suburban culture in Greenwich, Connecticut, by a wild-eyed radical investment banker who had overindulged in dry Martinis, in the late Spring of 1957. To make it worse he wore Argyle socks with plaid shorts at the time.

He was never forgiven, and eventually had to flee to Westport, where he scraped out a meager living arranging real-estate loans.


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Gurney
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:41 PM

The socks-with-sandals debate had a thread to itself not long ago.
I'll say here what I said there: James Bond wore socks with sandals, when he was in Jamaica. How cool can a man be?


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Becca72
Date: 16 May 07 - 06:06 PM

What's the point of sandals if you're going to wear socks with them? Plus it just looks silly. I have several pairs of sandals and all of them are quite comfortable w/o socks.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 16 May 07 - 06:12 PM

I find socks with sandals uncomfortable.

I just love summer because I don't have as many socks to wash so I don't have the problem of organizing so many of them.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: billybob
Date: 16 May 07 - 07:15 PM

OK, but I want to know....PLEASE.. where does the odd sock go in the washing machine?
Do they group somewhere in sybaspace?
Just back from Ireland I solved the problem,on the ferry home they sell Irish odd socks, one yellow one green, both embelished with shamrocks, but then are there two socks in the ether looking for their soulmates?I/ll get me coat!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 May 07 - 08:22 PM

billybob

Don't worry, they sold some other fool the matching pair...


Somewhere out there, if you can find them, is your Sock-Mate!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 May 07 - 08:59 PM

Odd socks are generally hiding in the sleeve or the pant leg of some larger piece of clothing. From there they make their devious way to other inconvenient places, such as the small space between the basement wall and the washer or under the dresser. By the time they are found, their mate has been thrown out or has long since disappeared.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Amos
Date: 16 May 07 - 09:43 PM

Where does the odd old single sock go,
After the spin cycle's done?
Does he bid farewell to his life-long mate
And duck out the vent on the run?
Does he go up the flue, in a burst of blue
When his walking days are all done?
Oh, where does the sad lost single sock go,
When you find the other one?

Songs of Laundry Past
Jakes Bin Modernished and the Indoor Boys
Dairy Herd Platters, pub., Askfaloosa, 1976


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 07 - 09:58 PM

Shucks, just buy all black ones of the same type and size. Then buy a pair of red ones, a pair of blue ones, and so on. Just one pair of each. That way to don't have to think or anything.

I once organized my sock drawer. Next thing I knew they were on strike, demanding to be laundered more than once a year.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 May 07 - 10:51 PM

Herself just discovered that the mate of one of her odd socks is in North Carolina at her sister's house.......


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: mg
Date: 17 May 07 - 12:16 AM

I can not imagine organizing socks. Just throw them in a basket and rifle through every morning. mg


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 May 07 - 12:22 AM

Actually, that's exactly what I am presently doing.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 May 07 - 04:31 AM

Works perfectly well for me too... when I wear socks that is...

I'm another of the 'no socks with sandals' brigade. I asked a friend once why he wore socks and sandals. He said he wore sandals because his feet got too hot in shoes but wore socks because his feet got cold in sandals. And this man was once responsible for controlling a large percentage of our nuclear energy...

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: billybob
Date: 17 May 07 - 08:44 AM

Pug, the lead singer with The Famous Onion Band has always worn odd socks, in fact for some years Odd Socks was his nick name.Must have saved him hours in the mornings!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 17 May 07 - 09:58 AM

I wear socks with sandals to extend the sandal-wearing season. My birkenstocks are the most comfortable footwear I own.

Russ (Permanent GUEST)


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 May 07 - 10:09 AM

A concreter who lives down road wears thongs - and socks - he says the rubber thongs are better than boots for walking on and finishing the concrete, but his feet get sweaty and slippery in the thongs so he wears socks. - long ones keep some of the concrete off his legs too - takes them off when he's finished the heli work.

Always matching ones.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 May 07 - 11:42 AM

Let's sing songs of the rights and wrongs of shorts and longs, socks with thongs .


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 May 07 - 11:58 AM

If you're a person who tends to get cold feet easily, then socks are the way to go when wearing sandals. Besides, it's more comfortable to wear socks between your skin and the material of the sandals. Also, the soles of your feet won't stick to the sandals...an annoying feeling, I think. The advantage to sandals over shoes is that your feet can breathe naturally, and the sandals are usually lighter in weight than most shoes too.

Why should it offend anyone to see someone wearing socks with sandals?

While we're on the subject of socks, note the erotic mileage that Linda Ronstadt got out of wearing socks on a series of album cover shots back in the 70s.... ;-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 07 - 12:23 PM

Might have been even more erotic if she wore a thong [UK style, i.e. G-string].


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 May 07 - 12:25 PM

Yes, but she was more going for the "girl next door" look...


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Amos
Date: 17 May 07 - 12:40 PM

The Auld Sock Song

Where does the odd old single sock go,
After the spin cycle's done?
Does he bid farewell to his life-long mate
And duck out the vent on the run?
Does he go up the flue, in a burst of blue
When his walking days are all done?
Oh, where does the sad lost single sock go,
When you find the other one?

Where do old coat hangars come from,
In the closet after dark?
Do they multiply in the deep of the night,
Do they hang in a corner and spark?
Are they formed in the gloom, from moth-ball fumes,
And the dust from the cloak-room floor?
Oh, where do so many coat hangars come from,
Every time you open up the door?



Songs of Laundry Past
Jakes Bin Modernished and the Indoor Boys
Dairy Herd Platters, pub., Askfaloosa, 1976


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Peace
Date: 17 May 07 - 03:59 PM

For Little Hawk!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 May 07 - 04:55 PM

If you have plastic sandals then yes, your feet will get moist and sweaty.... Get sandals made with natural materials; leather or rope soled are good. The other advantage will be that your feet won't smell either.

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Schantieman
Date: 18 May 07 - 09:58 AM

When I was single and did my own laundry I never lost a sock in it. (What, never? Hardly ever). Then I got married and it was a weekly occurrence. Even when I did the laundry. Now I'm not married any more, it hasn't improved!

Moral? Marriage ****s up your sock drawer.


Just one more question: Why was a builder wearing a thong? And was it a thing thong? That's two. I feel a Monty Python sketch coming on.




Where's my coat?


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 May 07 - 10:49 AM

"Why was a builder wearing a thong?"

He had a pair.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 07 - 10:53 AM

Lighting is of foremost importence. Make sure the light is too dim to see the difference between black and blue or on the other hand so glaringly bright that you can't see a thing.

Next make sure the drawer sticks.

Most important is to stuff it so full that the drawer will not shut as well as making a whole pile of socks spill out when you pull on one.

Finally, and I can not emphasize this enough, make sure there are no matching socks to begin with.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Becca72
Date: 18 May 07 - 11:08 AM

What's even better is if the drawer sticks so much you have to yank on it and end up pulling it all the way out and dropping it on your feet. No need for socks when you're in a cast! :-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 May 07 - 11:46 AM

Geeze! I'm late as usual for chimming in on this great thread. Amos, that's a great song! Here's my old verse dedicated to the trolls that inhabit the dark inner world of the sock drawer:

The next came in was a sock troll
Whose dress was exceedingly droll,
Whose dress was exceedingly droll,
When he joined in the jovial crew
For he was attired in socks he'd snatched,
Argyle, stripped, and some was patched,
And not a single one did match –
When Jones's Ale was new, me boys,
When Jones's Ale was new!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: GUEST,Vladimir the Inhaler
Date: 18 May 07 - 12:05 PM

I have a vast collection of socks, which i have carefully arranged in my cellar. My favourites are my fluffy lavender bed socks - followed by my black thigh high lacy ones. I have some that have pretend batwings on the toes - they squeak when I put them on!

Vlad the Bad.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 May 07 - 12:48 PM

A concreter who lives down road wears thongs - and socks

Blimey!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 07 - 02:01 PM

Becca you're hired to make the Peter Selleresque scenes even funnier for my 'next' movie.


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Bert
Date: 18 May 07 - 05:40 PM

Of course your feet won't smell either leather or rope soles, but your NOSE will!!!


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 May 07 - 05:59 PM

My Dragon: by Limpit aged 9 and LTS



A dragon lives beneath my bed.
You won't believe how well it's fed!
For hiding there in dark and gloom,
it can see all round the room,
and every single sock I lose
he steals away and quietly chews.
So when I try to find a pair,
there's always one that isn't there.
And that is why, upon my feet
no matter in what state the street,
A pair of socks you'll never find.
But that's OK, I don't mind
for just as long as Dragon's fed,
he stays asleep beneath my bed.
I dread the day his eyelid flickers,
For then he might start on my knickers!

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 May 07 - 04:52 AM

It's true... we are all getting older.

Once upon a time we talked about sex and drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.


Now it's socks and rugs and sausage rolls....

Ho hum... Tempus fugit...

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 May 07 - 10:05 AM

"It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll!"


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Subject: RE: BS: Organizing your sock drawer...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 12:22 PM

It might be time to revive this important discussion...


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