r/cats Aug 17 '24

Humor Cat Olympics Final Day.

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u/MayorAg Aug 17 '24

This is the first time I have seen 200 socks outside a store.

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u/Ph455ki1 Aug 17 '24

Last time he used white and maybe even other coloured socks too meaning there are even more socks in this house.
I need to know why do you have so many socks u/DearEmphasis4488

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u/iluvios Aug 17 '24

I buy all my socks at once. So at any time I have 20 of the same socks, so if I lose one I still have 19 that match.

That way I never get missing single socks. Pretty useful.

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u/qtntelxen Aug 17 '24

Same, but I still don't have 200+ socks.

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u/Ph455ki1 Aug 17 '24

Plus the aforementioned other colours from the day2 video. There must be at least 125 pairs of socks there, but likely more.

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u/MiniDigits Aug 17 '24

He might have a sock hookup

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u/Haunt3dCity Aug 17 '24

Hey man, let me have one of them striped, them shits is fire

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Aug 17 '24

Sock puppet...

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u/TeamCatsandDnD Aug 17 '24

I have two drawers worth of socks and I don’t think even I have 100pairs

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u/whyenn Aug 17 '24

The horrible truth is that neither does he: poor guy bought 200 pairs of the same kind of sock but every single pair lost its mate.

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u/rudecanuck Aug 17 '24

I probably have about 350 socks. I just don’t know where 330 of them are.

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u/Meloetta Aug 17 '24

Years ago I threw out all my socks and got a ton of the same sock, figuring that as I lose/wear out socks I can just get more of those and the matching is so much less important.

Now that I'm starting to think "I should buy another pack of socks", they don't make that specific kind anymore. So now I have to decide, do I do the same thing, throw out every sock, get all the same again? or do I get a very similar style? Which means then I'd either have to accept my socks not matching anymore or look very closely to match them...or I could just give up and get socks that work and put myself back where I started, a pile of unmatched socks

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u/iluvios Aug 17 '24

For that reason I buy clothes every 2 years. I just spend a whole week buying, making everything match and I don’t worry about clothing for another 2 years.

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u/pandazerg Aug 17 '24

About ten years ago I switched all my socks to Darn Tough brand socks. They're $20 a pair($25 these days) but they have a lifetime guarantee, so when I had a pair finally wore through the sole earlier this year I sent off the old pair, and had a voucher for a free replacement pair of socks a week later, and I was able to get the exact same style of sock that I got 10 years ago. Can't recommend highly enough.

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u/cute4awowchick Aug 17 '24

Can always convert the old (current) socks to cleaning mitts if you decide to start over. They're great for dusting, cleaning blinds, etc.

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u/ishootthedead Aug 17 '24

Don't throw them away until you get the new ones. Sometimes you like the old ones better than the new ones and have to try again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '24

I gave up on matching socks years ago. Sometimes you’ll catch me wearing one white sock, one black sock. Sometimes it’s one gray and one red. When the stars align I’ll wear the same color and same brand

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Aug 17 '24

Do you not find that you end up with socks with different levels of wear or do you cycle the 20 before a wash?

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u/ilikepix Aug 17 '24

are you saying it would be an issue to wear two socks that are otherwise identical but one is more worn than the other?

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Aug 17 '24

By worn I’m referring more to the quality of the sock reducing, I’d find it annoying if one sock was noticeably less comfortable than the other

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u/viralmessiah00 Aug 17 '24

Yes cause my feet are verryyyy sensitive and I can feel the difference ALL DAMN DAY.

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u/Torrefy Aug 17 '24

I have a few different kinds of socks: black, white, ankle, no show, etc. But within each type they are all the same. So all the black ankle socks are all the same for example. 

I have them in rows in my dresser, and always take the one from the front. Then when I do laundry I push them to the front in order and put the freshly cleaned ones in the back. So basically just a first in first out kind of system. It just makes sense to me and it's easy.

Last year over the course of like 3 months I had all 12 pairs of my black ankle socks get holes in them. After having them for a couple years. That showed me that I was definitely wearing them pretty evenly. Replaced the whole set all at once with 12 new pairs.

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u/BlueMikeStu Aug 17 '24

That's the thing. As they got worn or tear, you just cycle them out. Then when you get to the point where you don't have enough socks between laundry cycles, you turn the rest into rags and buy another 20 pair.

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u/adsjabo Aug 17 '24

Yeah I actually do a similar thing for my crew socks.

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u/dewidubbs Aug 17 '24

It must be a sales tactic to sell socks in packs with 6 different pairs. The ability to wear different designs is definitely outweighed by the fact that once you lose / water out one sock, the other is made redundant.

I hate doing laundry for my girls. there must be 300 different socks in rotation around here

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u/melperz Aug 17 '24

I used to buy only black or white socks until one day after laundry, half of 2 of those pairs suddenly changed colors. Like the left is black and the right is white. Then the other pair had white left and black right. Weird.

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u/limitless776 Aug 17 '24

They say there is no such thing as mismatched pair of socks as there is always a pair the exact same sat at home…. Somewhere 😂

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u/WarRoutine7320 Aug 17 '24

my friend has a huge pile of socks in his closet that he has been collecting from every single birthday, christmas, graduation- anything that lends to his father sending him a gift. his father with 100% certainty will send him a pack of socks. he has moved all over the country but takes his socks with him every time.

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u/Live-Influence2482 Aug 17 '24

Clever and efficient! Ma man!!

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u/cindyana_jones Aug 18 '24

this guy socks.