We have currently taken on the task of matching all of the socks in the house to their correct mate. This may seem like a very simple task, but for some reason it is not!! I really have enjoyed, and thought that it worked rather well, our method of just putting all the socks (that don’t have matches) in a “Sock Bin”. All was going quite well until the socks could no longer fit into the sock bin and I was looking for other locations for the mismatched socks. Also, I got tired of my kids saying that they did not have any socks. I have probably spent over 500 dollars on socks and thousands of hours finding their mates (this year). Has no one come up with a way to keep socks together? With technology these days has no one come up with anything? Maybe even something like the clapper might work?
So my husband, of course, is full throttle on this project, he has never really supported the “Sock Bin”. We have hunted the house, done batch after batch of laundry, to no avail. We still have a bin full of mismated socks. Steve is going to throw them away, but I feel that he may be doing a premature throw away. I still feel that there are socks out there…. Somewhere, plus I think I may have some hoarding tendencies. Where do socks go? Is there somewhere they can get stuck in the washer? Are my kids coming home from friend’s houses with only one sock? Is it a sick game that someone plays on moms?
I will continue my search for socks, and of course I will continue matching what I can, but I have to tell you, I feel my sanity slowly slipping from me in the process. I have begun talking to the missing socks, “Where are you hiding?” “Did you slip down here?” “I can see you back there”.
And really if you think about it, does it really matter if you have matching socks, are there sock police? Is it really that embarrassing to have two different color socks on? Do people question your sanity, your intelligence, your mothering skills if you or your children are sporting mismatched socks? I think that it would show that you are frugal, worried about your children’s toes, and have a saucy style for fashion
So my husband, of course, is full throttle on this project, he has never really supported the “Sock Bin”. We have hunted the house, done batch after batch of laundry, to no avail. We still have a bin full of mismated socks. Steve is going to throw them away, but I feel that he may be doing a premature throw away. I still feel that there are socks out there…. Somewhere, plus I think I may have some hoarding tendencies. Where do socks go? Is there somewhere they can get stuck in the washer? Are my kids coming home from friend’s houses with only one sock? Is it a sick game that someone plays on moms?
I will continue my search for socks, and of course I will continue matching what I can, but I have to tell you, I feel my sanity slowly slipping from me in the process. I have begun talking to the missing socks, “Where are you hiding?” “Did you slip down here?” “I can see you back there”.
And really if you think about it, does it really matter if you have matching socks, are there sock police? Is it really that embarrassing to have two different color socks on? Do people question your sanity, your intelligence, your mothering skills if you or your children are sporting mismatched socks? I think that it would show that you are frugal, worried about your children’s toes, and have a saucy style for fashion
3 comments:
Hee hee. I feel your pain! Although Reni is the Sock Bin fan,and I'm the one who wants to throw them away. I think they should invent disposable socks; wear them once, then chuck them. The first time is the only time they match for us anyway! Oh, and just when you think nobody will notice that your kids' socks don't match, you'll go to the Arctic Circle playground, the kids will take their shoes off, and some "well-meaning" Grandma will make some snarky comment about it. Argh!!
I also feel your pain, unfortunately I don't have kids to blame this problem on, just a husband who takes his socks off whenever and wherever he wants!
I totally feel your pain. Because I have all girls, my girls have discovered if they don't have socks, or if their socks are gray on the bottom because they frequently wear them outside without shoes, they can just go in my closet and take nice, matched, white socks and all it costs them is my griping to them. I'm all for the saucy fashion of mismatched and gray socks!
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