Dear Reader-
The early years of our marriage involved a war of wills if you will…
A very important matter had surfaced for this blushing bride and her handsome GOODe Ole Boy…
I present you just one of the list of a multitude of things that weren’t done the way Mama did it:
The Sock Pouch vs. Bunny Ears
Ya see… unbeknownst to me, sock ears had to be protected at all times… fragile as they were.
Under no circumstances were socks allowed to let their freak ears fly per my new husband.
It never occurred to his bride that socks had ears, let alone the way my mama had done it for years left the poor sock ears susceptible to the elements in the sock drawer.
My solution of course was to do it the right way… and listen to his ear protests endlessly… to which I would muster all my maturity and burst out into the Little Bunny FooFoo song and hit him on the head with the socks he was protesting.
Ahhh the newlywed years…
But then, my sweet husband started his retribution… He started putting his socks wrong side out in the hamper…
And there are few things I despise more than sitting and turning dirty socks right side out so they wash properly…
Stinky, old railyard boot socks… BLECH
Eventually I won that war by washing socks and folding them (with bunny ears a flying) as is… if ya want ‘em clean… then you do your own dirty work…
Today, laziness –or perhaps being smarter about laundry– has finally put this debate to rest…
No one wins, yet everyone wins… we now just use bins.
That is right… I (and we) have STOPPED folding socks all together.
Oh the freedom!
Everyone now has their own bins… no folding, no pouches, no ears.
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Comments
Jennifer
UMMMMM everyone knows that socks don’t have ears and that you also NEVER stuff both socks all the way inside of one sock – it stretches out the elastic on only one sock therefore making one sock sag more than the other one AND then the entire inside of only one sock has been exposed to the world ummm YUCK! Oh and unroll and turn your own disgusting sock right side out if you want it clean otherwise the way it comes into the laundry room will be the way you find it (only run thru the washer/dryer) in the community sock drawer when you go to match your own socks!
LOVE THIS POST!
Kirsten
To save a few extra steps in larger families and rummaging for your socks in a huge pile….use a zippered lingerie bag for each member of the family. They put all their dirty socks in their bag – the whole bag gets washed and dried – and then they shake it out into their sock drawer. No more missing socks, no more folding, no more sorting
Thanks for the great article on socks!
Cris @ GOODEness Gracious
Love the lingerie bag idea!