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[–] 62 points 2 months ago* (26 children)

One slightly different path here is socks. If a sock lives long enough for its elastic to wear out it can go to "garage clothes" category. Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate. Another path for socks to "garage clothes" is if fashion trends finally evolving so far that wearing those socks will get admonishment from the gf/wife if worn out in public. However, as soon as a sock has a hole in it, it skips the "garage clothes" step and heads straight to the "rags" category.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    I don't know what it is but no matter how nice of socks I get or how well I take care of them, they will get a hole in the big toe area within a year at the very latest. I've never had socks last long enough to have the elastic wear out

    Also yes my nails are kept short so it's not that

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I’m here with you. Do you feel like you have exceptionally hard nails? I sure do.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I almost never wear out the toes. For me its balls of the feet holes or occasionally a heel hole. I'll also say that my socks last a long time.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I bought a 12 new pairs of Adidas socks for a 2 week trip I took. Came home with 2 fewer socks because I put holes in the toes. It’s absolutely insane and it happens with all brands.

    Really high quality brands like SmartWool last longer, but the big toe is still what fails first.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Depending on if the holes develop at the top of the toe (dorsum) or the bottom (plantar), you could either have too much range of motion on toe off(hyper mobile 1st ray), or too much rigidity (hallux rigidus).

    A hyper mobile toe will allow too much dorsiflexion in the toe and wear the top of the sock down, some people will even wear a hole in the toebox of their shoes. Too much rigidity will cause the toe to act like an extension of a lever arm and create too much plantar pressure.

    You could also just have a competitively long big toe compared to your lesser toes.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is fantastic! I did some searching for at home tests for hyper mobile first ray, and I definitely see a difference in mobility from one foot to the other, and I feel like my hyper mobile toe is always the one I see sock holes on.

    Dunno what if anything I’m going to do about it, but greatly appreciate your insight.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    You could try purchasing a Morton's extension to add to your shoe to see if that changes anything.

    It's a thin piece of carbon fiber that you add under the insert/liner of your shoe. It helps prevent the hyper mobile joint from exceeding its healthy range of motion, and helps load the ground force reaction across the medial column of the forefoot a little more evenly. You can usually find them on Amazon for like 10-20 bucks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    We just threw out a whole pack of adidas socks. After just a few house of wear, made both me and my wife’s feet smell like 3 day old road kill. We decided it was some shitty blend of plastics doing it.

    I had to walk down an embankment to a river to wash my feet before bed on a camping trip because I didn’t want them in the tent with us.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I have that problem too with polyester socks. I may have those same adidias socks, and I primarily use them for gym/workouts. My daily driver socks are cotton in the summer and merino wool in the winter. Both of these are Costco branded and are lasting years and wearing well.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    And for underwear the path is "maybe I'll get laid" then "still no holes so I can be seen in them" and finally "I'm not going out today so I don't care that one of my balls fell out through the hole". And then rags.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks. Lifetime warranty, basically a sock club. Most definitely buy once cry once and it doesn't matter whether you pay full price or get them on sale. They always warranty the value of the sock on what they sell for on their website. It's so awesome. I haven't needed to buy socks since 2017 when I filled my sock drawer.

    DT is the way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks.

    You're wearing a $20-$30 pair of socks to mow the lawn or change the oil in a car? I'd be worried about messing those nice socks up.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    I have about 25 pair, unsure exactly. I've paid an average $14 per pair and it's 100% worth it.

    And yes, I wear a fresh pair for work or daily engagement and then they get set aside and used when I'm working around the house for a day or two.

    The wool blend makes them never stink, it's pretty amazing. I bought the majority in 2016 or so from a now debunked website called MassDrop. They'd buy stuff in bulk for discounts then resell them at great prices. I just checked my old emails and paid two pair for $28 and three for $41. Later I bought a few more from GoBros.com for at least 25% off. Checking my emails I got most of them from MassDrop though.

    Here's the thing, DT doesn't care how much you paid or how you got them, they credit the full value upon return and then you shop direct from their website for value credited. When I first started I'd used the rertuns like sock club, I'd send my thick winter ones back in the spring and get thinner summer ones. I'd do the reverse in the fall. My first few years I was swapping out socks twice a year. Now I have enough I wait until the ankle is loose on a few pairs then return in bulk to replace, every 3 years or so.

    You don't need any excuse or reason to do a return that they need. You don't need a receipt.

    I’d be worried about messing those nice socks up

    That's the best part, because they're warrantied you can abuse tf out of them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate.

    I do not match my socks, I'll wear two completely different socks at the same time. If one loses a mate, then that's fine

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Reading this thread has taught me that when I have a girl over and she tells me that I am not a normal male, I really had no idea how much I didn’t do as a male that other men do all the time….

    I wear all of my clothes until they show clear signs of being worn out and then determine whether that it should be donated or trashed. And i have one shirt then I’ll probably never throw away and it’s one that I’ve had since the 80s, my goonies shirt.

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