Comments on: A Confession http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: LESLIE http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-44417 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:55:09 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-44417 THAT IS AWESOME!!!! LOL

]]> By: mustbekarmah.com http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-29955 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:04:49 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-29955 One of my friends grew up n a household that had a sock problem. They all had the same kind of socks and almost the same sized feet. What they ended up doing is with each new package of socks they used craft paint for fabric and painted a stripe, etc. on the toes of the socks. A different color for each person. That way when it came to sock matching time they knew that the socks would pair up because they were all the same color/brand and whose socks were whose because of the color stripe on the toes.

Now in my house we don't do that. My oldest is sock crazy and has tons of socks in all different patterns. Yeah, that's a whole big mess there, so I sympathize with you!

K. Anne

]]> By: Dawn http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-25455 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:00:28 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-25455 We have six children and do a combination of the above.
1. Buy a years worth of new socks day after Thanksgiving every year (50% off at Fred Meyer). Sounds expensive but you're going to end up buying them throughout the year anyway might as well buy them when they're on sale and you can get all the same kind for each child. This eliminates the need to mate the socks.
2. Same socks for each person different from each other. One gets low cut, the next ankle, and so on as mentioned before.
3. Pre color coded socks. We like Hanes but as mentioned before their are other brands. This makes it easy to place strays.
These eliminated the need for a basket for lonely socks. Then go one step more.
4. EVERYONE GETS THEIR OWN HAMPER. I can not tell you how much time this saves. Moreso it makes it easy to transition them to doing their own laundry. Little ones put their own folded laundry away, next help with the folding too, next rotate their load. If you start young they'll be mostly independent between 8 and 10.

]]> By: p. http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-25314 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:13:36 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-25314 my children also do not worry anymore of wearing diffent socks, we call them simply friends, instead of pairs.. and i found myself one morning doing the same – yes ! 47 is an age that allows to do strange things.. haha, who cares..with winter boots.. nobody sees anything.

]]> By: Clairissa http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-25303 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:50:34 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-25303 I live with just my man and we are blessed/cursed to have the same size feet. We chucked all our old socks and invest in bulk of our favorite from Costco. No matching needed!

]]> By: Michelle http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-25218 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:07:45 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-25218 So maybe i am a little late and maybe someone already said this, I am way too lazy to read your bazillion comments, but I use safety pins. I keep a magnetic pin cushion in each person's room and when they take off their socks, they pin them and throw them in the basket. You can see my ancient post about it here: http://www.alittletipsy.com/2009/03/single-socks.html

]]> By: Barbara http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-25154 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:20:21 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-25154 SOCK-LOCKS! They're little plastic rings that hold a pair of socks together, or heavy socks go into attached rings. I have never lost a sock in 25 years! I have never had to sort socks in 25 years! Wash, dry, take off the rings to re-use them, and fold each pair for the drawer. Simple!
http://www.sock-locks.com/

]]> By: Kitkat http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24898 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:45:52 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24898 Me and my boyfriend rarely wear matching socks – we just grab 2 socks and put them on. Its v liberating and you can get some really cool pairings :)

]]> By: Jenee http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24896 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:08:43 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24896 Simple solution, Gold Toe easy sort socks, for boys and girls, that is all I buy. There are little lines at the tip of the toe, super simple and quick! Plus really durable. You can find them at Kohl's.

]]> By: Kermit~the~Frog http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24893 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:26:07 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24893 I know I am super late to the game here, but it took me forever to realize why all your socks are together: you wash your family's clothing together! I forget that people wash that way: each family member here has a hamper and that hamper goes into the wash solo. That's my best advice to avoid sorting, but just as I cannot imagine changing how I manage laundry, I doubt you're going to go to a seven-hamper system (the seventh is for towels, good gravy, with the new baby it will be an eight-hamper system).

]]> By: Kaylen http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24886 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:59:59 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24886 I just throw all clean socks into the sock bag and about every ten days, I pull it out while we're watching a show and my son and I will fold them together. About 90% of his socks are all the exact same brand/type, so it's really quick and easy. Black socks are the only ones that slow us down!

]]> By: Montrose Lewises http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24885 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:52:55 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24885 Oh I just saw the sockpro.com comment and might like that better… no clipping… hmmm

]]> By: Montrose Lewises http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24884 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:46:39 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24884 Wow I wanted to see if this solution had been offered yet but 141 comments is a lot to read. I hope you take a moment to look at this because it's working for us, family of four.
These clips are in the laundry section of Wal-Mart in packs of 6 for $1.47.
Good luck!
http://blog.myheartandhome.com/?p=3044

]]> By: D'Lonna http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24878 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:37:44 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24878 I have 4 boys, all close in age. I take a permanent marker and write their initial either by the toe or the heal under the foot. Small so all don't see, but large enough for me to see. This solves my problem of random socks being found around the house. I know who they belong to sometimes I have to wait a load or two to find its mate.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24876 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:52:54 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24876 Put them in lingerie bags, one for each member of the family. Zip the bag closed when it is time to wash and theoretically you should have as many pairs come out of the dryer that went in! You would also try safety pinning them together although not sure if that would work with your young boys…

]]> By: Ashley @ A {Blonde's} DIY Life http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24874 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:57:06 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24874 My mom use to actually take a marker and write our names inside! You could do that along with a number so they could be paired together. I found this terrible embarrassing growing up, but hey I came from a family of five kids plus two stepbrothers!

]]> By: MrsDez http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24873 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:25:40 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24873 My hubby pins all the socks together before they go into the wash. That way they're already pre-matched for me when I roll them together. I don't even bother taking out the safety pins, he does it himself :) But for the kids last year I bought them 10 pairs of socks each that were exactly the same, so I don't have to bother finding matches.

]]> By: Wendy http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24870 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:58:39 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24870 I did throw all ours away and start over! I only have 2 boys but it was way out of control. We bought Hanes socks that have "Hanes" written on the bottom in different colors for each size. Green for my oldest and red for the youngest. I love it! I don't even mind matching socks now!

]]> By: Maddie Kertay http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24866 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:36:47 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24866 I have decided that I just don't care.. My kids (5 of them) are old enough to dig in the basket for a matching or non-matching pair. They have the option of using their own mesh bag but if they don't they get to dig. I birthed them,I fed them, I school them.. .. they can fidn their own flipp'n socks :)

Maddie
http://www.domesticanarachy.blogspot.com

]]> By: Mrs. Joanz http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/confession.html#comment-24864 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:40:11 +0000 http://www.crapivemade.com/2011/02/a-confession.html#comment-24864 I thought I was the only one w/socks problem….My son and hubby share the same size as do me and my daughter. Both kids have found it easier to just go to their mom and dad's drawers where there's always socks for them. I live in Hawaii and sorry, missing socks trouble do exist her as well (as does missing slippers, too….that's another chapter). LOVE your blog! Aloha!

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