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My father used to sometimes wear mismatched socks out in public, and when told by someone about them, would reply ”Yes, I know. I have another pair exactly like these at home!"
 
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I choose to wear mismatched socks, because I see no reason to wear matched pairs.
I have never had a problem with socks disappearing, nor not upset because I cant find a match.
Life is a lot easier that way, perhaps try it.
It may be better than Valium!

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There are some fun and useful ideas in this link:
https://www.allfreesewing.com/Refashioning-and-Upcycling/Things-To-Do-With-Old-Socks-NSM2020

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I'm so glad I found this thread before starting my own inquiry what to do with socks I've decided will never pair back up. Lots of great suggestions from the past!
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I am told that at some point in time it was popular for teens to were mismatched sock on purpose.  

I never saw that back then though I saw someone on TV wearing mix matched so the other day so it might still be a thing.

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Anne Miller wrote:I am told that at some point in time it was popular for teens to were mismatched sock on purpose.  


My friend needs to wear a compression sock on one leg, and not on the other, so she found pairs that went together colour/style wise and wears mismatched all the time. Works for her!

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I now buy about 20 pair of heavy work socks at a time.  They are the same color and design. I don’t worry about matching them.  I have not had the need to dress up for maybe 5 years.

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This thread came in my 'daily-ish'. I did not yet read everything. Of course sock-puppets were already mentioned (shown in a photograph), but the 'sock-lady' I made is different ...

Here's Veronica. She was made of one whole sock and one sock with a large hole.
As far as I remember I never lost a sock in the washing machine. Most of my socks I knitted myself and I wash them by hand (because they're wool). I have a few pairs of thinner socks, they go in the laundry, And when they have a hole they are 'upcycled' instead of darned.

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The "Door Snake" thread went past recently. It  just occurred to me that if you have a collection of mismatched adult socks, you could stitch them together to make a door snake.

Not sure if I would approach it by stuffing each sock, then stitching them together, or cut the toes off and make a tube first. Opinions anyone?

I tend to only receive holy socks - like John F Dean suggested, my folks tend to buy a bunch of identical socks and not have to worry about matching. I'm the standard grey wooly type myself, but people have gifted me socks in other colours.

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Jay Angler wrote:

Not sure if I would approach it by stuffing each sock, then stitching them together, or cut the toes off and make a tube first. Opinions anyone?


Considering my skills, my inclination would be to make a continuous tube before filling the whole thing as a unit.  I imagine that if I made several filled pieces to attach, that where the joins were made it would create draft opportunities.

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Socks don't actually go missing. They crawl into the closet and metamorphose into hangers!

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