Orphan socks,

Geo-TH,In

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I use my orphans to store ratchet straps. What uses to your have for your orphans?
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I like the comment made by a little kid when someone asked why he was wearing one white sock and one black sock. He thought a bit and then replied: "I have another pair at home just like this one."
 
All my socks are the same. That way there are no orphans, but when they get threadbare I cut the toe out and split them lengthwise and have good grease rags. TDF
 
HA! I played guitar in a little 4 piece band, and the lady who played the fiddle NEVER wore a matching pair of socks. I think she once even wore shoes that didn't match. She was quite an eccentric.

Good idea on the socks George.
 

Frigging dryer eats socks,, and then spits them back a week or two later...

Then there's the holey underwear... I cant seem to get rid of them... they keep coming back...I dont know why the socks go and the bad underwear comes back.

I can bid, win, and build mutil million dollar projects, bring them in on time and under budget, but yet can solve the laundry mystery. Goto be something supernatural going on there.
 

took me a few decades, but I finally realized if I just buy lots of socks, all at once, and all the same - odds get a whole lot better that they'll match without even trying.

One bunch of white - one bunch of black.

If I find an oddball as they come out of the dryer - I know it's not new and I just toss it.
 
When I'm done wearin en - The straps would fall through the holes lol
Then I run them through the wood stove for a few BTUs.
 
My feet are sensitive to some dyes, so I wear only white socks. Now, you buy a package of six pair and how do you match them up after they have been laundered? Before I wear them I take each pair and number them, beginning with #1 on the toe of the sock, or sometimes A,B,C, etc. This way they are automatically paired when I take them from the dryer. All I gotta do is match the numbers.
 
I write TGIF on my socks :lol: :lol:

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I also only wear white socks except those two or three times a year when wife thinks I have to dress up. I buy a 10 pack of white socks and just like others said they match very easily.
 
Wife uses them for dust rags. Just put one on each hand and walk around the house. She does this once or twice a year, whether it needs it or not. :lol:

Speaking of that, SWMBO got the rugs cleaned in the whole house couple weeks ago. Major project this spring was to replace the ceramic tile in the foyer, hallway and laundry room (about 250 sq ft). I started last weekend with my air chisel removing the old tile. Even though I put up old sheets and plastic to try and contain the dust/debris to the area being worked on, there was a fine coating of dust all through the main floor. She didn't say anything but the look on her face the last few days tells me "she ain't happy". She hasn't mentioned that she JUST got the carpets cleaned, but I know she's thinking it. The only saving grace is that this a mess I'm making that she see's some value in. Usually my mud-caked jeans and boots dropping dirt all over the place are from projects she cares little about (new fence, drainage ditch, deadwood cleanup, etc)
 
I'm like Larry the Cable Guy; I get lots of wear out of my socks and drawers. Cable Guy commented
on one show that he was wearing a thong. He said it started out as boxer shorts.
 
Sock monster hides them. Which I think he hangs out with the dust bunny. Because sometimes I find an orphan next to where the dust bunny has been, under the bed or behind the clothes dryer.
 
Thats a great Idea, but most of the straps i use are the big ones. I supposed old pant legs would work, if the worn out knees were not the reason they were discarded. I will have to talk to the guy at the thrift store to save me some otherwise useless donated pants. Carrying 10 or so of the 4 inch wide straps in my truck can be a tangled mess.
 
Well when the dryer spins at just the right speed it creates a small Black Hole just big enough for socks and they get sucked in! Some times it is reversed then is able to have the ones that were sucked through and they returned. the dryer manufactures do not want to admit this for fear they will have a lawsuit on their hands.
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Oh, I've made use of a few...1 time I thought it was trash day, took trash out, then I realized it wasn't. Opened door up swung trash bag around in front of me. I found a broken Ortega taco sause bottle with my leg. One side shaved meat the other side sliced. I cut the toe off of a sock and pulled it on up. That saved a lot of pain when taking pants off for awhile, cause it sucked when they would get stuck to the wound.#2 I put chainsaw bars in them. I use a 16,20 and 25 inch on my 036 pro. when not in use I put chain on bar then take a bread twister around the chain at the back end of the bar to take out the slack in it. together they go in a sock closed with a bread twister.#3 My critter gitter dog cut his front paws up trying to dig a rabbit out of the pile of broken glass from an old greenhouse next door. 3 socks for him, one for each leg, holes cut in the top of socks to "saddle" one more sock across his shoulders, to keep the other 2 socks up and on.#4 gun scopes and ammunition.#5 parts n pieces (i.e. bolts,screws,springs and clips)for a get back to it project. #6 a penny sack, somewhere in this house I've got a pair of socks with pair of one hundred dollar bills in them...LOL...Using them just for oil and dust rags, just got boring after awhile LOL...MTP
 

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