Growing up I never really had socks of my own. Early in my life, maybe even before I was born, my parents decided we would no longer sort socks. They would simply be thrown into one huge basket (what we call "the sock bucket") and we would share since we all basically wore the same socks anyway. As a result, we all had one extra drawer to keep other things in and the task of sorting socks never became a source of tension or annoyance. I believe it helped to establish a strong bond between us. A family that wears socks together, sticks together.
Anyway, my sister, an avid reader of this blog, recently brought it to my attention that we may be the only family to use this method of sock-sorting. She recently polled 14 people and each found our ways slightly outrageous.
However, to this day, I do not sort my socks and I never will. I also do not pack socks when I go home because I know when I need a fresh pair their will be an entire bucket of socks to choose from--all ready to warm my toes.
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that certainly is pretty weird. and how come your socks generally match, then?
well when you buy a pack of socks, there are typically like a total of 16 socks in a pack that all match...and if you continuously buy the same kind of socks its not that hard with say 100 of the same sock. You just reach in, grab a handful, and you are bound to end up with a match.
hahahah i never though of it that way. i guess this is because i have never bought such a large pack of socks, and when they do come in multiples, each pair is usually a different color.
Interesting--we had a sock bucket, too, but it was entirely for unmatched socks--hundreds of them. I don't know where they came from, or why we kept them.
D-Money,
You are the closest I've come to finding another sock-bucket sorter... even if you only bucketed the rejects. We on the other hand had a much more inclusive system. But still close enough for me!! Maybe all the matches to your unmatched socks ended up in my sock bucket?
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