Are you a sockaholic?

Oh yes, that would drive my DH insane!

I love wearing weekly named socks on the wrong day, it winds everyone up

Well, I must be very strange, because I don`t own a single pair of socks! Haven`t worn them since July 1959.

I have more pairs than I dare to confess to on here. I am not the only one, all four of us are just as bad. My secret vice is cashmere, I spend hours on ebay buying up cashmere socks to get me through the winter as they are not too bulky but are very warm. Merino wool will do at a pinch (arthritis in my feet) DBH loves Duchamps and Gallo socks, Son aspires to them but will settle for brands like Odsox and luckily the daughter doesn't care as long as they are warm and pretty. I told Son to take two weeks' worth of clothing to university with him. I went through his clothes the other day and he has only taken 8 pairs of pants but 30 pairs of socks. With 20 pairs still in his drawer. He rebelled at school by his socks, he was meant to wear dark grey, so of course, the brighter the better.

Old wool socks of mine have the toes cut off, are hemmed and become gardening glove extensions, felted ones are pretty good at stopping nettle stings. They also bridge the gap between gloves and 3/4 length sleeves in the winter under a coat and a hole can be cut in the heel part to make long mittens. So I don't feel at all guilty about my addiction, I get full use out of them. The males' socks are good for wearing on the hands to clean venetian blinds and general dusting of small ornaments.

You lot are leading me astray - I have several pairs of socks, no need to buy any new ones yet, but today I bought two pairs because I saw them on the display and liked the colours. All because you had been talking about socks.

Wow j08 I was shocked for a few seconds when I read about your 'alcoholism' and couldn't understand why you had decided to confess on a thread about socks

Tegan

There's only one area of my life in which I'm very decisive and that is, I shall have a cup of tea first thing in the morning followed by [soon after] a cup of coffee. After that it's a tea?coffee?coffee?tea? thing.

I am really bad at decision making. I'm definitely getting worse, too.

Those socks they make for men are one of the best inventions ever [y'know, the ones with different coloured soles so you can match them up; one of those 'why didn't I think of that' things of which there are many]. Don't think they make them for women. petallus; next time I hover over a pair of mismatched socks I shall say 'petallus' [cause it sounds like something Harry Potter would say; I know this cause I was reading book number 4 to the grandson t'other night]. I am nearly cured, but I do have odd moments of indecision [socks, what shall I eat today, shall I bother to get out of bed, which horse should I back in the 3.15 at Kempton?; that sort of thing.

Please scrub the extra don' there

Sockaholism!!!!

I went through alcoholism, including the odd ones thing, around the time of the menopause. I came out the other side. Now I prefer m and s black ones, with a quiet little pattern. The latest lot I bought don'don't seem to fit so well though - worrying.

I was searching laboriously through my socks this morning looking for a pair when I suddenly remembered this thread and now I've got odd socks on and feel wonderfully liberated.

Thankyou GN.

Thanks for the link lucid,that's two presents sorted. Now I only have to decide which colour I like best.

Thanks, lucid. They do look like my kind of socks

thatbags There is a toe seam on the Solmate socks..... doesn't bother me because the socks are very soft.

Have a vast amount of black socks to go with my black clothes. I used to be obsessive about matching them together but have realised that I can wear slightly odd socks as long as I don't fold them together when I put them away. When they get holes in them they become dusters. I've just bought a few pairs of socks from M&S in Berwick but am having to be careful to keep them separate from the old black socks. I think I need to get some exciting socks of some kind . In fact, reading this back I think I need to get a life .

My name is NfkDumpling and I too am a sockaholic. (But only in winter as I only wear sandals in summer.)
Just had a look at the Sock shop on line - wonderful pair of spotty over the knees that I just have GOT to have - bang goes my no buying clothes for a year New Year resolution!

I am a sockaholic . The obsession began two years ago when a local chain had a buy two get the third free. I bought three pairs of the same style, lacy ankle socks with cute matching bows on each ankle . These were followed by four pairs of angora knee highs...sheer bliss. I have at the last count thirty pairs and I'm constantly on the look out for more.

kitty get knitting, hand knit socks are the comfiest I've ever worn. They don't roll down or slide off your feet and they keep your feet really snug.

What is the toe seam like on those socks, lucid?

Fun socks I love these socks...and yes I'm a sockaholic! A good friend bought me a pair of these life is too short to wear matching socks.

My feet are always painful, put coverings of any kind on them and*OUCH*'

I am the same absent if I possibly can I wear sandals, the shoes come off as soon as I walk through the front door.

I hate wearing anything on my feet. It's horrible when we get into late autumn and I have to start wearing shoes instead of sandals and I loathe it if the weather becomes cold enough in the winter to have to wear socks. I have moved to the right country for someone with claustrophobia of the toes as everyone takes off their shoes before coming indoors, whatever the weather, and quite a lot of people are seen barefoot outdoors in the summer.

Do you remember the campfire song/round 'Black Socks' I think there may be a few versions on u-tube.
Just washed 10 pairs of black socks! DD1 usually buys me snazzy socks for birthdays etc.