When I decided to have kids, I knew sacrafices would be made, but I did not plan for the end of matching socks.
There are way, way too many socks, many of them super-tiny. I don’t have the time to spend hours seeking out and matching up these socks. Who in the world has this time? Or this drive? Or this kind of organized, efficient mind?
No one in my family, not my kids or my husband, wears matching socks anymore. We do wear socks with the same thickness. You can’t wear a thin sock with a bulky sock.
There is one exception: a new pair of socks. My niece just gave me a pair of black socks, soft and thin, decorated with circus elephants. Today, I’m sporting a match.
Mismatched socks should be for females only! My granddaughter looks very cute mismatched…but my grandson, absolutly not
This company took this idea and turned it into a multi-hundred million dollar company with socks that come 3 to a set and made to wear with non-matched versions
http://www.littlemissmatched.com/
Jonathan,
Do they make for grown-ups? Family-packs?
Thanks,
Margot
Awesome. I use this system as well but so far have no converts in the family — which is a big problem, since your seven-year-old son is a major sock horse. But I applaud your spartan ways with footwear.
“our” seven-year-old son, that is, not yours – to my knowledge there are no male magowan sock horses
JB,
You need to work on conversion tactics. Try bundling similar thickness together, with similar coloring just at first. (If someone else in the house is sorting laundry, you’ll need to take over.)
Margot
Which then leads to no socks; I just spent a lot of money on a pair of uggs for my 3.5 year old. But we don’t fight about wearing socks anymore!!
Cristel,
I never thought of this– Uggs keep your feet warm with no socks! Brilliant! What about washing? And are they comfortable?
Margot
I found a pretty easy solution to this….
My hubby has 10 pair of the same white socks, I have 10 pair of the same white socks and my son has 10 pair of the same white socks….I have the odd colored pair but I can manage those… 🙂
Shelly,
I considered this! I felt kind of sad at the prospect of all white or all black and that idea was what pushed me over the edge to mismatched. But I do think its a great option and maybe most effective for my husband’s socks. Maybe I’m being gender biased assuming the females need their colored socks.
Margot