They were looking for these.
Posted on 10/17/2008 10:18:01 AM PDT by PERKY2004
My wonderful DH and I have been married 5.5 years. He is currently deployed to Iraq, so I decided to take inventory and straighten out his dresser drawers, plus the drawers in the closet. (With his blessing and permission, mind you.)
He has socks in 4 different drawers. He has over 80 pairs of socks. Most of his socks are black (work) or white (non-work), with a very few pair of other colors.
Ummm.... is this normal? Socks in 4 different drawers? Over 80 pairs? Or am I just married to a guy who loves his socks?
Molly
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I don't really have problems with blisters (as long as I'm not using the crap hot-weather boots, which I opted not to bring), so one pair of socks is the same as any other as far as I'm concerned. The thorlos would probably be great for long night patrols in cold weather (I have pictures of frost from one morning we were out in the wasteland; there was ice forming on the machine gun), so send those; however, cheap throw away socks would be equally useful. What I really need is a huge quantity of socks; laundry is kind of iffy here at the dam, so I need a huge supply that can last a few weeks and then the whole batch can be washed at once. I can wear the same pair of socks multiple days in the row without fear of infection, since my boots stay pretty dry; however, the smell is horrid when I take the boots off at the end of the day, so having a pair of socks for each day or 2 would probably make the room smell less butt-like.
I sent him maybe 30 pairs of cheap socks and a few pairs of the high-dollar Thorlos. When I got them back, he had never worn the good ones :)
{Blissful sigh...} Iraq sock stories.
I could sit around the campfire all night telling those.
Thanks for the story!
During my husband’s last (4th) deployment, he got an entire load of laundry (socks and undies) stolen right out of the washing machine.... does that count as a sock story?
:: giggle ::
He sounds like a wise man. The very best way to handle the “lost sock” problem is to have many many pairs of identical socks.
It is possible to have different 40 pairs of socks, lose 40 socks, and have no usable pairs remaining. But imagine this, with 40 identical pairs of socks, if you lose 40 socks, you still have 20 usable pairs.
In fact, if one buys, say, six six-packs of identical socks all at once, there isn’t any time wasted matching them to pairs either. Just grab two...any two. They all match, even as they fade!
Saw the topic, couldn’t resist.
I have approximately:
20 pair of black crew socks, 45 pair of white crew socks, 40 or so pair of assorted color dress socks.
40 white t-shirts, 45 or so colored t-shirts, and 25 or so dress shirts.
7 pairs of blue jeans and 6 pair of dress pants.
With mixing and matching, I don’t have to do laundry, sometimes, for a couple of months. Not necessarily a complete guy thing, but having enough of something, let’s one concentrate on more important things than clothes or laundry. Wal-Mart is a great place to shop for necessities and cheap, too.
When a sock or t-shirt becomes too hole-y or worn, it goes in the rag bag. I have a huge rag back (gun cleaning, car maintenance, computer work, etc.)
I used to have this pair of long underwear. I had them for years. Over time they developed rips and holes, and were eventually held together with a complex system of safety pins and willpower. I loved that pair of long underwear. Built for comfort and speed. One day, my ex was doing laundry, and commented on why I would keep such a revealing garment. I said, mostly, for sentimental value and extreme comfort, and that she should never think about throwing them away. One sad day, they came up missing.
When I began to curse the Underpants Gnomes and Cruel Fate, she volunteered that she was the culprit. I was, of course, understandably saddened and not a bit angry. That wasn’t the deal-breaker in our relationship, but . . .
Anyhoo, underthings take on a special sentimental/functional value and should never be gotten rid of until they fade from our Reality.
$0.02
That’s more like it.
Actually, I only have thick soled white athletic socks from SAM’s
. . . for common use. Probably 40-60 pairs of them. All the same sock. Most bought at near the same time. I hate matching socks up. Now don’t have to.
I have a few pairs of thick wool socks for backpacking etc.
Given my status and job . . . and where I live . . . part time prof, I don’t have to be that concerned about dressing up in my neck of the woods. Not for church, weddings, funerals . . . nothin.’ I like it that way.
I think sometimes in a guy’s life . . . warm socks from a drier are kind of like a warm towel from a drier just after a shower . . . very easy to be fond of.
And, I think athletic socks have a lot of friendly associations for most guys.
In any case, I encourage students and lots of other folks—get a month’s worth of socks and underwear. Why bother matching socks or washing more often. Life’s too short to spend it on such silly tasks.
Oh my gosh. Who would stoop so low as to steal a man's socks?
The terrorists must have gotten on base. ;-)
The worst thing about lost socks is that I always end up with a bunch of lefts and have to start over.
ooohhh!! Where can I get me one of those?
I'd even clean out the sock drawer if I could get one of them.
Thought you’d like that :)
Your DH isn’t so weird. Now I have perhaps 15 socks in my sock bin that don’t even have the other matching sock.
They were looking for these.
LOL..
I remember asking someone about you and socks way back when, and some replies were quite funny.
What, I don’t gotta pay now? I demand a refund!
But washing machines eat socks - but only one from a pair.
The solution - if your husband will go along with it - is to go out and buy him 10 pairs of identical black socks and 10 pairs of white socks ( identical ) ect. That way when the washing machine eats one he won't be at a loss for a "pair". He'll have to lose 18 black socks before he's down to only "one pair". Same with the white ones. Make sure to buy the kind of socks he likes - good ones - and this will work.
It all began when I tried to post a very silly vanity about a year and a half ago...
I remember it like it was yesterday...
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