Laundry day
With as many socks as Bsti & I have I’ve taken to washing them all together in one big load of nothing but socks. So as I was sorting them and pondering my sockie life I realized it would be fun to take some pictures to share…
How many socks can you identify in my batches?
April 1st, 2006 at 2:01 am
i have so many socks now! before i got my washer and dryer, i’d go to the laundromat only about once a month or two, and i’d walk out with a trash bag full of only socks and unmentionables! :D
April 1st, 2006 at 3:15 am
I usually wash all my light coloured ones together(excluding white,because the natural bleeds a little bit) and then I have to find other clothes to wash the other darker colours with, or on their own by hand, then I have to enlist dad to squeeze the water out of the larger socks because my hands are too small lol
April 1st, 2006 at 6:49 am
i hand-wash all of my socks. i got into the habit of hand-washing because my husband wears knee-high wool socks that must be handwashed. so since i’m already washing his, i go ahead and wash mine. we even have a special basket for socks that need to be washed.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
heehee, nice!
April 1st, 2006 at 7:25 pm
one fashionably tragic year in highschool (early 80s) I managed to pick out all purple with what little school clothes budget I was allowed and didn’t touch purple again for years. But I have been able to enjoy it again for quite awhile now.
The fuzzy things right in front of the lens are my fleece tabis
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:45 am
*cough*pink and white stripes please*cough* ;)
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:02 am
I wash all my socks by hand in the bathtub. We have commercial dryers that either simulate the fires of hell, {or air fluff which leaves things wet}. so If I put things in the dryer they’ll shrink waaaay up…. great for the big M40 feet, but bad for the ink lined as I tragically found out. :( I also had colours run into my LegAvenue nylons. So those 2 things and having to haul heavy laundry half a mile to the laundry room. BAH! I can do it in my tub & have actually found things getting cleaner when I wash them by hand since they soak overnight. ;) running colours is why all I wear is black. Life is easier in black. ;)
April 2nd, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Whenever I machine wash my M40s, and to a lesser extent, the Super Stripes, the stretchy elastic thread at the very tops seems to get pulled and tangled and I end up having to snip off what was yanked out. Does anyone else have this problem? A car accident has made it rather painful to hunch over a bathtub for hand washing. Can I save my socks?
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:45 pm
I haven’t had that problem with more than one pair. One thing that tends to help (and I half plan to post about this soon) is washing everything inside out. Our newest rep gave me a simple explanation of whyt that works so well…
when washing in a machine the centifugal force of the spin causes all threads to head outward, this is bad if they are rightside out, but inside out the strings have no where to go. I invested in a nice front loading set and that is the only reason I now trust so many different socks in together, it is so much more gentle to them ~:) I really wanted a new fridge, but our old washer & dryer sucked sooo very badly…
April 3rd, 2006 at 7:27 am
I’ve had a little trouble with the thread at the top, too. I wash all my socks inside out. I have one pair of Ribbed Ms that have no elastic to speak of at the top anymore. But most of them hold up fine.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:34 am
aw Steev, that’s a bummer. Can you use the kitchen sink instead?…. I didn’t know that about the centrifical force, that’s interesting… & star, my ex-cat taught me to hide in a pile of clothes right out of the dryer. It is heavenly warm! Cats have such good ideas about what feels good. ;)
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
the front load washing machines are the best, we’ve got a fridgidaire the old washing machine just burnt out in a puff of black smoke one day while running lol… the fridge and the stove will have to go soon too,they are old, old, ooooolllld. lol