Let's discuss socks

it doesn't get any more inane than a discussion on the fit and comfort of different sock types. But that would be the one running through my head at the moment. I'm wearing a grayish pair of hand knitted like socks today, they used to be my very favorite pair of socks ever, because they were incredibly fluffy and soft. They've been worn now and they aren't so soft and fluffy and the nice grey has turned to an old icky grey, and they don't classify as wonderful socks anymore.

I made it a habit a while back to buy little white bobby socks for several reasons. 1)they all match, therefore any two you find in a sock basket match 2) they are wicked cheap compared to buying soft fuzzy socks that wear out in no time. 3)when a sock gets a hole in it you can throw out just the one sock and not have to worry about having a perfectly good sock that now is useless because it has no mate 4) you always know what your socks will look like when you are buying outfits and can plan accordingly.

There are however a few major flaws with this plan, the first of which is that I can't seem to throw out the old pairs of socks that aren't little white bobby socks, and I can't seem to convince weird people like my mother that I do not indeed want cow socks or other such brightly colored hideous socks for every holiday. Then there is that small thing about buying new little white bobby socks, they don't run the same kind of sock for more than three packages, I am convinced of this. They make them just enough different that they don't match so when you go digging through the sock basket you find 17 different white bobby socks and not a single match. It's at that point that I just start looking for the colored ones because picking out two dirty grey socks or two vivid red socks is much easier than matching white socks that are SOOO close to being matches, but aren't close enough to call matches.