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View Poll Results: How many wearings will a typical pair of socks last?
1 to 50 - We're bipedal, and that's hard on socks. 4 10.53%
51 to 100 - China makes most of them, so not long. 8 21.05%
101 to 150 - When I was a kid, they lasted a lot longer. Because we were poor. 2 5.26%
151 to 200 - This assumes a reasonable level of foot odor. 3 7.89%
201 to 250 - This assumes that you're not wearing them with sandals, which increases wear. 1 2.63%
250 to 300 - This assumes that no bikini model rips them off of me. 6 15.79%
301 to 500 - It might be longer if you're careful to keep them out of puddles. 3 7.89%
501 to 750 - As long as you're only using them for feet, they should last a while. 0 0%
751 to 1,000 - All that space technology makes socks durable. 1 2.63%
More than 1,000 - We live in the greatest sock era in the history of mankind. 5 13.16%
Socks are just The Man's way of keeping us down. 2 5.26%
I don't know, but I just found my dissertation topic. 3 7.89%
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Old 05-25-2015, 03:31 PM  
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How many times do you think you can wear a pair of socks before they wear out?

I was putting my laundry away today, and I realized that I have a lot of sock. I'm not sure how many, but maybe 50 or 60 pairs, maybe even more. They've accumulated over the years since you don't really outgrow socks.

So for discussion purposes, let's assume that I own 52 pairs of socks and wear them equally. That means that each pair of socks is worn 7 times per year.

Given my age, I can probably expect to live another 33 years or so. If I never buy another pair of socks, that would mean that I'm going to wear each pair of socks 231 times.

Ignoring their current wear and tear, is 231 times feasible for a pair of socks? How long do they last? I honestly have no idea. Is it 50? 100? 200? 500?

Honestly, 231 seems like a lot since socks get wear and tear, and of course my socks aren't all brand new. I suspect that my sock buying days are not over, but I don't know what's reasonable in terms of sock life spans. What do you think?
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Old 05-25-2015, 04:32 PM   #61
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Sometimes you have to dress to impress. Chicks at parties don't comment on plain socks.
If they're seeing my socks, I've already sufficiently impressed them.
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Old 05-25-2015, 04:34 PM   #62
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When they get holes in them, they're thrown out... otherwise I'm looking at a wearable pair of socks.
I just wash the ones with holes in them and use them for rags or to apply boot polish.
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Old 05-25-2015, 04:35 PM   #63
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Or more to the point; outside of a trip to the Marquee Club for Ska Night, when exactly do a pair of "Union Jack" socks become necessary?
You're on a cruise when a group of small, fast-moving boats appear on the horizon. Your ship tries to outrun them, but soon you have a horde of terrorist pirates clambering over the gunwales. You alertly throw your passport overboard.

The pirates group everybody on the deck, and sort out the Americans and Israelis, shooting them and throwing them overboard. They get to you and say in their thick Somali accents, "Are you Amedican? You look Amedican."

You pull up your pants cuffs and say, "Do oye bloody look Ameerican, chap?"

You should always take a pair of Union Jack socks when traveling abroad.
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You're on a cruise when a group of small, fast-moving boats appear on the horizon. Your ship tries to outrun them, but soon you have a horde of terrorist pirates clambering over the gunwales. You alertly throw your passport overboard.

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You pull up your pants cuffs and say, "Do oye bloody look Ameerican, chap?"

You should always take a pair of Union Jack socks when traveling abroad.
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Old 05-25-2015, 04:38 PM   #65
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I just wash the ones with holes in them and use them for rags or to apply boot polish.
Have you ever did the trick of wearing the sock the other way, opposite of where the hole is???
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Have you ever did the trick of wearing the sock the other way, opposite of where the hole is???
Nope, if I end up with a hole in one it gets put out to pasture. I also use the ones with a hole in them for applying gun oil and oil to my cutting blocks.
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You're on a cruise when a group of small, fast-moving boats appear on the horizon. Your ship tries to outrun them, but soon you have a horde of terrorist pirates clambering over the gunwales. You alertly throw your passport overboard.

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You pull up your pants cuffs and say, "Do oye bloody look Ameerican, chap?"

You should always take a pair of Union Jack socks when traveling abroad.
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I just wash the ones with holes in them and use them for rags or to apply boot polish.
Yep, I have a few sock rags floating around, they're great for polishing things.
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Do any of you guys have the socks with the individual toes???...Those are weird...Creep me out...
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I have seen girls wear those but never a dude.
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I have socks but not tons but I don't know where in the hell they all are there are so many onesies. They just seem to disappear on me. Most are from when I lived up north and no longer wear. Don't need unless for athletic footwear. I flop around usually with no socks down here. But it's cold in my room in the winter here so I wear a pair of tennis socks to bed.

Never had a hole except for one old woolen pair I used up north. Think they were for skiing.
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Do any of you guys have the socks with the individual toes???...Those are weird...Creep me out...
Oh. Add six more pairs to my total, though I need to throw those out. They're in a different drawer and I never wear them. I had a short-term experiment with those individual-toe running shoes and had to buy six pairs of toe socks to fit them. That experiment went very poorly.

The shoes weren't comfortable at all and the socks were just as bad. I had to snip the between-toe parts because they toe pockets weren't long enough. I aborted that mission in its early phases.
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I have seen girls wear those but never a dude.
One admits it two posts below yours
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Yeah, but they were athletic toe socks. They weren't above-the-knee rainbow toe socks.
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Yeah, but they were athletic toe socks. They weren't above-the-knee rainbow toe socks.
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