Do they match?

Just an Ordinary Owl?

@owlwings (43897)

• Cambridge, England

4 Dec 15

@Rollo1 The Crab Who Had Eight Odd Socks would be a brilliant title for a children's story.

@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

I am afraid I am more of a Prufrock than a Red Hat Society lady. Just not me at all. I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

4 Dec 15

I love that poem @Owlwings - I didn't know she was only 29 when she wrote it.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

4 Dec 15

I would pick any 2 that come first in my drawer.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

You are a bold individual, @marlina.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

5 Dec 15

@Rollo1 I guess I am!

scheng1

@scheng1 (24649)

• Singapore

4 Dec 15

haha, I do not have this problem. In fact, I do not wear socks unless I travel to cold countries. I think when you go to places like Hawaii, you will not wear socks too. It is nice to walk about barefoot at home, and at the beach.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

That sounds possible, but the sand on the beach is hot, and one still needs sandals. But I shan't be going to Hawaii, I must stay here where it's cold.

AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45490)

• United States

4 Dec 15

When it comes to socks I'm all white that way even if they are mis-matchedd they are still the same color.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

I have to agree, that is a foolproof system and the one I use for The Boy, but I prefer him to have all black socks, because it's hard to get his white socks clean.

AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45490)

• United States

4 Dec 15

@Rollo1 My husband wears boots so all his white socks have lots of brown on the bottoms.

amnabas

@amnabas (14877)

• Karachi, Pakistan

4 Dec 15

Well its a common worry I too get into this situation but one thing I would share is we use them as dusting tool as they are woolen and helps cleaning mirrors and woods.

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PaintsOnSlate

@PainsOnSlate (21845)

• Canada

4 Dec 15

I like the two purple pinks, and I would wear them because my jeans are long enough my socks don't show, but I don't do it on purpose. My mother used them to trap lint from the dryer since it couldn't be put outside. it worked. That and runny nylons...

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

@rebelann I think she may have meant the dryer couldn't be vented outside. I know some people with small apartment dryers use something to catch the lint.

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@rebelann (117226)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Dec 15

I wonder why she couldn't put lint outside, I put the lint outside for the birds to use in their nests.

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@rebelann (117226)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Dec 15

oooopps @Rollo1 I always went to laundermats when I lived in apts

Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

4 Dec 15

My washing machine must suffer from the same syndrome because it cannot resist hiding one sock during the cycle. I put several pairs of socks into it, but usually end up with an odd number in the end.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

4 Dec 15

@Rollo1 A sock looking for it's mate? I was unaware that a pair consisted of one male sock and one female sock.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

I wrote a story about a sock searching for its mate. I think it got tucked up in the sleeve of a sweater and was packed away for the summer.

Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

4 Dec 15

@Asylum I wrote a limerick on the subject too.

@rebelann (117226)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Dec 15

Back when I worked I was forced to wear stockings but since I wore pant suits I'd just wear knee highs and I never cared if the matched or not, no one ever saw them. Now I don't bother with socks, my feet get too hot in them. Oh, I'd wear the bottom two if I wore socks, they look kool together.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

The cure for hot feet is winter in New England.

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@rebelann (117226)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Dec 15

@Rollo1 mine get hot if I wear socks in shoes even in cold weather.

Anna

@LadyDuck (502427)

• Italy

4 Dec 15

Looking at the photo I would match the two purple, but I am not a young girl, I am conservative and I would never wear socks of different colors.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

The two purple ones are the closest match, which means you should never wear them together.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502427)

• Italy

5 Dec 15

@Rollo1 This is what the young girls will do, but as I said I am old fashion.

Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

4 Dec 15

I'd wear the spotted one with the striped one that's on the top. Generally I do the same as you do for the boy - buy a lot of socks the same.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

It's easier if they all match. Once, many years ago, I bought a bunch of socks on sale. The only problem is that all of them were mint green. I wore mint green socks for years because I had six or seven pair of them.

pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

4 Dec 15

Never mind mismatched socks, there is a trend for wearing shoes of the same style but different colours: a red Converse on one foot, and a blue one on t'other...

I would suggest sending one sock to @xFiacre, to help him solve his cold feet or bad dreams dilemma...

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

@pgntwo I wouldn't wear two different shoes, because I am too cheap to buy two pairs of shoes in different colors.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14784)

• Ireland

4 Dec 15

@pgntwo Socks really need to be kept in pairs. I'm quite sure that they don't dry as quickly if hung on the washing line if they aren't side by side. It really irritates my wife when I go out and reorganise the washing on the line to ensure the companionship of my socks.

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pgn

@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

4 Dec 15

@xFiacre And another tightly-focussed beam of light is cast across the habits of the Irishman in his natural habitat

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Robin Lamb

@troyburns (1405)

• New Zealand

5 Dec 15

I quite like the idea of odd socks - one for each side of the brain. I read once that Einstein regularly wore mismatched socks, so maybe The Girl is onto something.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

5 Dec 15

My two sides are evenly matched, so if my socks didn't my brain would be knocked out of balance. Trust me, The Girl is no Einstein.

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

4 Dec 15

They can be used indoors. When i loose some i end up using the mismatched ones indoors whether i am sleeping or i need to keep my feet warm

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

It doesn't matter what we wear on our feet when we're padding about indoors.

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

4 Dec 15

@Rollo1 Exactly

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382052)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Dec 15

You could make sock puppets with them or give them a same-colour edging round the top so that that bit matches. But bedsocks sound a good idea.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

5 Dec 15

Sock puppets scare me. I don't like it when items of clothing come to life.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382052)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Dec 15

@Rollo1 Maybe leave them in your sock drawer and put all your money in them.

Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (169474)

• United States

4 Dec 15

I cringe at the thought of wearing mis matched socks. I will not even wear two different white socks together, but I know about the tween and teen mismatched sock craze. I would put mismatched socks on a Christmas Tree with little stuffed animals sticking out of the top, or use them to dust with. I like your idea that you can wear them to bed, though.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

No one will know if my socks match while I sleep. I think that if I wore mismatched socks, no one would think it was trendy or cute. They'd think I had slipped into early dementia.

seren3

@seren3 (387)

• Los Angeles, California

5 Dec 15

I would rotate them into pairs. And wear them as slippers.

Boingboing

@boiboing (13147)

• Northampton, England

4 Dec 15

I have been known to wear non matching - usually one black, one navy - socks and to then spend all day making sure I stood with my feet apart. I've done the same with shoes.

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

I think I have worn two black socks with different stitch patterns. I knew a woman who came to work with two different shoes. I guess she needed higher wattage light bulbs in her closet.

WorDazza

@WorDazza (15826)

• Manchester, England

4 Dec 15

I would take the one from the top and the one from the bottom. I suffer from clown-footitis in one of my feet!!!

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@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

4 Dec 15

I like your choices. A wonderful mix of mixing and matching. Patterns, patterns, patterns.

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paigea

@paigea (36143)

• Canada

25 Feb 16

I wish they'd had that trend when my girls were young. I hated that chore of matching up all their assorted socks.

Namelesss

@Namelesss (3364)

• United States

4 Dec 15

Haha, single sock syndrome. box em up and send em my way. I have a son and daughter that would truly love those. I'll even pay ya, srsly,

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