I, like many moms, have a love/hate relationship with socks. I’ve given up on white socks ever being white. I used to bleach them weekly and still couldn’t get the funk out of them. I swear I have no idea what they do to them. But alas, the kids do not care what their socks look like. They don’t even match their socks. Seriously, my daughters do not care if their socks are even the same style, let alone the same color. They’re seven, and I’ve decided if they don’t care, I don’t care. It’s one less stress.
But I refuse to let them go sockless. Their shoes already smell nasty enough. And they do running club before school each morning, during which their goal is to run a mile a day, which adds to their funk. And so we have to have socks.
I have bought them each 12 pairs of socks since the start of school. Neither daughter could find any socks at all 2 weeks ago. Seriously?!?! Now might be the time to mention under their beds is a disaster zone. So, no socks to be had. I had enough.
Rather than buying more socks, I starting pricing around on eBay and Amazon for zippered laundry bags. I decided on these zippered bags. Each child got one to keep next to their laundry hamper. All socks should go in. We dug out every sock we could find in every book and cranny. We found 3 bags full of socks.
They have been thrilled this past week that they have plenty of socks. I’m not matching nor even pairing them. I literally dumped the bag of clean socks in their top drawer and there they are for them to pull out two at a time.
This past week was awesome. Not one delay occurred getting ready for school because of no socks. When I washed clothes this weekend, 3 bags of socks went in; 3 bags of socks came out. Voila!
I don’t know how long it will last, but for this week, there are socks!
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