BS: Organizing your sock drawer...

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...

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!"

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

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

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!!!

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.

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!

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.

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

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! :-)

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.

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.

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?

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

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

For Little Hawk!

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

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...

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].

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.... ;-)

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 .

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.

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)

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!

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

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.

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

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.......

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

Sock Dreams. Fun socks.

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.

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'

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