Disposable Socks
It's always been an ambition of mine to some day have enough money where I would never have to wash socks. That's right, take them out of the bag and wear them. That night, throw them away. Repeat process the next day. I know, I know, it's wasteful, right? OK, maybe I could have the Goodwill come and pick them up. . . but they'd have to be unwashed and unsorted - THAT is exactly the work i'm attempting to avoid.
See, it's just so nice to put a brand new pair of socks on every day. No searching for some non-existent pair, no being forced to wearing pairs that match "close enough."
And now I think maybe I've figured out a way to do this, even on a budget. While I was in Orlando, I didn't pack enough socks (couldn't find any pairs except for woolen hiking socks!), so I bought an economy sized pack of socks at a drugstore there. I think I paid $3.99 for 20 pairs. I'm still wearing new pairs! And while I'm not exactly throwing them away yet, I could. Think about it, that's only 20 cents a pair, a dime a sock! It would be like washing a paper towel or something.
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And you wonder why the invironment is a disaster and americans are the biggest consumers in the world... Sounds like a good idea.
josh hilferty first proposed the theory of no old socks in 1999. This was quite a revalation to me. Its amazingly affordable. I say go for it.
You're a good one to comment, Jayson...
Ian, I'm not consuming the socks! That's disgusting.
Actually, the whole waste of it is the one part I don't like. Maybe they could be recycled as puppets?
Josh Hilferty is wise beyond his years.
Well, not to be on a soapbox or anything, but you can recycle old clothes including socks at the recycling center by UD.. down off of chapel street somewhere.
Get it? soapbox? socks? sigh.. Joe just unlocked Tiger Woods in the Tiger Woods Golf 05 game.. if only he could unlock Cedric the Entertainer.
Oh my goodness.. Jason I just realized your comment was that Goodwill could come and GET the socks from you.. not that you were going to drop them off! SHAME ON YOU! Don't even try the avoidance of burning fossil fuels as an excuse..
I am not denying my laziness in all this. .. which is why I'm not yet at the point of disposability. . . Maybe I could invent biodegradable socks, like you use them once, and then they can be put in the yard and used as fertilizer or something?
Hehe... wow... biodegradable (sp?) sox... Interesting. If one had a new pair each day then one would not have to worry about getting holes in the sox and theirfore having their heel slightly stick to the bottom of the inside of their shoe from the lack of sock. Or, notoes would be left sticking out... btw.. I had a very interesting experience while typing up a lab report for bio this evening. I'm tired and I realized that I was falling asleep as I had my eyes closed while typing. Weird no? well.... Cya soon! (And as I did that with my eyes closed, it had been somewhat riddled with errors.... alas)
Jason, do you have the same philosophy on underwear?
I'm just thinking how impractial biodegradable socks really are. If Jason sweats at all, his socks start to break down in his shoes. Nasty. don't even want to go near the underwear comment.
eew... you're right... and THEN what would it be like in there? a pasty goupy mess of biodegraded sock? yuk... hehe
No, I'm cool with underwear being reusable.
Holly, the sweating breakdown problem is just one that our crack team of genius homeschoolers will have to solve.
Hmm.. let me email my cousin and see what he can concoct. I think he's at some college run by pat roberts or something. So I guess he's not creating spy satellites for the CIA after all.
I, too, have the desire to use a pair of socks just once and then toss them. New socks feel different (and nicer) than washed ones.
At school, many of us used to do just this with our gym socks. We'd buy a pack of a dozen pairs, put on a new pair for a gym class or run, then drop the sweaty things into the trash afterwards. It was a lot easier to do that than to wash them.
I am sure somebody could come up with a sock that could be destroyed without major environmental problems. They could be biodegradable, provided they'd last a day before starting to degrade (I am sure that's possible too) -- after all you can get disposable cotton underwear that claims to be biodegradable.
And I am suprised with all the disposable products now available that nobody sells disposable, single-use, socks.
A new pair every morning, in the bin that evening!
I, too, have the desire to use a pair of socks just once and then toss them. New socks feel different (and nicer) than washed ones.
At school, many of us used to do just this with our gym socks. We'd buy a pack of a dozen pairs, put on a new pair for a gym class or run, then drop the sweaty things into the trash afterwards. It was a lot easier to do that than to wash them.
I am sure somebody could come up with a sock that could be destroyed without major environmental problems. They could be biodegradable, provided they'd last a day before starting to degrade (I am sure that's possible too) -- after all you can get disposable cotton underwear that claims to be biodegradable.
And I am suprised with all the disposable products now available that nobody sells disposable, single-use, socks.
A new pair every morning, in the bin that evening!
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