Sock Overload

Stop me before I buy more!

I just cleaned out my sock drawer. It had been a mess for a while and really needed to be sorted and organized.  I kept putting off the task to the point where I kept buying more socks because at least then I knew I could just grab them and put them on and didn’t have to worry about finding a matching pair that didn’t have holes.

Well, that is enough of that.  I put all the socks in a laundry basket and started organizing them.  All the ones that had holes, were faded or I just never wore were put in one pile.  I then pulled out all those of various colors and rolled them neatly up.

That left the giant pile of black socks. This took the longest because they are all black but have subtle differences. Some have lines that run the whole length, some have lines only on the ankles, some are knee highs and some are softer than others. It was like playing that matching games when we were kids. You know the one…all the cards are face down on the table and you get a chance to pick two and, if they match, you get another turn. If they don’t, the next person gets to chose and you have to try to remember not only the cards you had chosen but the other players as well.  The person with the most cards in the ends wins.

Well sorting through the black socks was like that. Pick up two, they don’t match, set them down, pick up the next two, and look…do they match each other or one of the previous pair? Then the next two…do they match any of the others I had just picked up? It was kind of fun and kind of frustrating all at the same time.

Final count, now that they are all sorted, matched and organized is: six pairs of solid black knee highs, six pairs of various patterned and colored knee highs, eight pairs of white socks, ten pairs of various colored socks, and….drum roll please…..24 pairs of plain black socks!!!  That is 54 pairs of socks!!

Why oh why does anyone need 54 pairs of socks??  I wouldn’t need to wash socks for almost two months and never run out of clean socks to wear. That is just simply ridiculous!

I think part of the reason I have so many is that socks are  easy to buy.  I don’t have to try them on and they are fairly inexpensive. Plus I like wearing fresh clean socks that have no holes or balls of yarn (from being washed too much) and aren’t faded.

But I think I have officially reached sock overload.  Maybe I need to join a support group. “Hello, my name is Julie and I have a sock problem.”

Or, I could just simply stop buying them. That’s it.  I will stop buying socks.

Unless I find some in red.  I could still use a nice pair of red socks. And then I will stop. I promise.