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Sharing socks. My family used to have a sock basket next to our shoes. You didn't own your own socks, you just grab a pair when you need them.
I mentioned "the sock basket" offhand to a friend in elementary school and she thought it was crazy. That's when I learned that not every family has a community sock basket. Looking it up though, I find a couple reddit threads from people with the same experience (and people replying that it's weird) π€·ββοΈDon't you have different sized feet?
This was the first thing I thought of. I wonder what percentage of households consist of members who all have the same foot size? That's got to be abnormal. What, do the 5 year olds suddenly sprout size-12 feet? They don't wear socks before then?
This story sounds utterly suspicious.
~50% of men probably wear a size 9-11 shoe
That's a "Large" sock
Man with a size 8 shoe could probably still wear a "Large" sock and be fine.
~75% of women wear a size 7-9
Women with 6 or 6.5 should still be able to wear a 7-9 sized sock.
Families have genetically similar feet
I know from my experience, my father, my brother, and I all wear the same size. We all had different preferences and our own socks, but I could have easily worn their socks.
It seems easy, until you walk a mile in their socks.
Yeah it's definitely more reasonable than maybe it seems.
As kids we had pretty similarly sized feet. And I don't think I noticed if the socks I was wearing were too big or too small anyway, even now I have some socks that are bigger or smaller than others.
And my parents had their own socks, so the sock basket was just for me and the sibs.
Well, in my mid-40s, this is a new one. As long as they're clean and fit, why not?
Are socks ever clean enough? Would you do this with underwear, and why not?
Why wouldn't they be? I would assume that socks only go in the family sock basket after going through the washer/dryer.
You wash your clothes? I just put them in a room with a scented candle. /s
Maybe not entirely closely related but your comment reminded me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/y0ja9zYBMPE
My daughters share school socks, because they are all the same colour and shape. So I guess this concept isn't too unreasonable to do it on a whole family level.
Your daughters are all the same colour and shape?
Yes. And their socks are too.
We used to do it as well at least for me and my brothers. We all got the same white tube socks so they went in the same basket by our laundry
We had a sock basket when I was a kid!
wait that's not normal?
Not even sure how that would work with the different sizes we had in my family
I think that depends on common shoe sizes. With the biggest feet there is no way I could put on anyone else's socks.