Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 20, 2021

Another perfect match is when you come across two same-colored socks with holes.

Socks? Har har. I don’t need no socks. I bearly use em.

And periodically, I get rid of all the old pairs and by a new set.

This is definitely me. Then I can throw out only one at at time if the holes get too big!

A pair is a pair !

Years ago Gold Toe made their ‘Fluffies’ crew socks in all sorts of colors. Made it easy to match pairs, and quite interesting when I didn’t. My sock drawer looked like a rainbow.

I thought this was suburban myth.

Yeah, that’s why I buy the same color socks – white – all the time, plus you can keep the one good one when the other gets a hole. You’ll get another pair in time.

actually, i have black and white socks

Yep, buy them in packs of 6 pairs. Always have a match.

Works for me these last 40 years.. grey from Costco.

Are socks suppose to match?

Packs of 12

My mom always bought 2 identical 6-packs of socks each at a time for my dad & my 2 bros – white ones for dad, black ones for one bro, & navy blue ones for the other bro. Made for easy sorting & a lot less wasted time trying to match them.

I had several pair of tie dye socks with similar combinations of blues, purples and greens. Easy to mix-n-match.

There used to be a man in the neighborhood who marched to a different drummer. One of his penchants was to always wear mismatched socks. One of my physics profs in college always wore bow ties, usually red ones. I don’t recall if they were the clip-on variety or the genuine article.

That’s me in my nutshell.

My dad was red green color blind. A friend pointed out that dad was wearing one red sock, and one green sock. Dad replied, “Yeah, and I’ve got another pair at home just like ’em!”

That’s the way I do it. When I worked, I owned nothing but the same kind of black socks. Now, it’s white socks, with one black pair for funerals, or when I run out of white ones.

Pirate Pluggers only wear socks that are… ARRRrrgyle.

It’s above 50 degrees… who needs socks?

I do have mismatched white socks.

Doesn’t matter if they are the same color or even the same color and same brand – they never seem to match any longer. When I sort my socks I have to sort by type of ribbing, then the length of the socks to match them. My socks are two different brands as the first brand discontinued the socks I was buying – if I end up with three matching pairs of socks – same ribbing (each company had different ribbing) and same length – I consider it a miracle.

Husband is even worse as he 4 or 5 different sets of socks and in no case can I pull out two of the same set of socks and have them match on the first try.