The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Penninehillbilly on January 03, 2016, 02:27:25 pm
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Sorting through old sock pile this morning, loads of socks with toes / heels gone, with cost of socks now, I have neither time nor inclination to be darning.
Can anyone suggest uses for these sad specimens?
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I keep wearing them, just keep my shoes on when people are around
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I saw a pic of a tiny kune kune runt piglet wearing a singlet made of a yellow rugby sock this week. So how about breeding weedy piglets..... :thumbsup:
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Dusters?
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I tie mine into knots and let the dog play with them. He likes them better if they haven't been washed ;D
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I darn nice socks. Others might get worn as 'work socks', turned around so that the hole in the heel is on top of the foot. Often under a thicker pair, so they don't show - not that that bothers me. I tend not to get holes in toes, but if I did, I might look at whether the sock could make a handwarmer. Else, yes, knot and stuff and it's a dog toy.
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We also made a sock ball for dogs ... several socks tied into a ball with bale a twine.
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I just clicked on 'unread posts', and I think the forum is trying to tell you something! ;D
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Hmm. So you cant wear the odd ones as a mismatched pair?? Must just be me then:)
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Hmm. So you cant wear the odd ones as a mismatched pair?? Must just be me then:)
I don't think there's been any suggestion that we're talking only pairs of socks! I certainly don't worry about that at all - in fact, I enjoy making odd socks, partly so that when people do that, "Hah hah - I bet you've got another pair just like that at home!", thing, I can say, "Au contraire. All my socks are unique," and give a big you-don't-know-me-at-all smug g*t grin. (I can be very shallow.)
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I keep wearing them, just keep my shoes on when people are around
Are you related to fsmnutter?
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They make great dustbin fillers.... Sorry, I'm not thrifty when it comes to socks unless they are hand knitted, in which case I darn them.
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They make great dusters/cleaning cloths if you put your hand inside. Wash them first though.
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Thanks all, dusters are the obvious that never occurred to me.
We do carry on wearing them, but i end up with sore cracked heels, never thought of turning them round so heel is on top.
Only talking odd socks, we wear odd socks if the colour is somewhere near
Might try the dog toy, hope they don't start on OH'so socks he leaves around :)
Womble? Not with you on that?
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Could be the forum was suggesting to Womble that socks could be useful haggis skins.
In the run up to christmas I am sure that I saw several youtube clips about turning old socks into stuffed toys. As with most things nowadays when I want something I cannot find it.
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We have a sock monkey given to us as a wedding present .... made from flight socks from the flight to Tanzania .. by one of the team members who was with us on our build project.......... which was where we met. :)
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This thread reminds of when I worked in local government in Dorset. An old farmer came into the office and mentioned how he had been ripped off buying some cheap socks from a market stall. When he got home he found that they had no toes and that they were just tubes of material.
'But the b*gger didn't get me', he said, 'I tied the ends up with baler twine'.
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As with most things nowadays when I want something I cannot find it.
Thought that was just me, ie I know it's there somewhere, saw it yesterday but where? ::)
This thread reminds of when I worked in local government in Dorset. An old farmer came into the office and mentioned how he had been ripped off buying some cheap socks from a market stall. When he got home he found that they had no toes and that they were just tubes of material.
'But the b*gger didn't get me', he said, 'I tied the ends up with baler twine'.
Ouch! My poor toes suffer enough! :)
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I use a couple of 'beyond saving' football sox on my outside tap to keep it frost proof.
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Put them round your wrists when your sponging windows or walls up high to stop water running down your arms. Put them round your wrists when out on the quad and stops a draught up ya arms.
Or just give them to anyone who fixes the equipment as rags.
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Reading back over these posts reminds me of the time I was invited into the home of an acquaintance for a coffee. She had two Shelties and I was playing with them with a bundle of what looked like rugs. As they became unravelled, I realised they were men's socks and she said they were her husband's and that the dogs preferred them to other toys.
Her husband was my bank manager and I could never discuss business accounts with him again without struggling to keep a straight face.