101 uses for an odd sock

[2steps]

prompted by my jam making this morning - could you use one to drain the pulp for jam/jelly if you didn't have a jelly bag or muslin

[blathanna]

Fill up with lavander from the garden and put in the drawers to perfume the clothes. I do this with the sheets and towels and they always smell fresh.

[mrsflibble]

collect in a box, pair up what can be paired after 3 months, the rest cut into squares, sew together, make patchwork blanket
(i brought her home from hospital in this)

[Milims]

Mrs Fibble you are amazing!!! Your ingenuity know no bounds!!
I used odd socks to transport champagne glasses back to my friends house in safety. I simply slipped each glass into a sock and laid it carefully in a basket and hey presto no breakages!!

[Millymollymandy]

Odd socks are brilliant for people with broken feet as they only need one ordinary sock on the good foot, and one old baggy spare sock of hubby's for the swollen foot!

[mrsflibble]

make a sock into a snake for a child.



this week this tip meant I got my oven glove back as sophie has adopted it, wears it on her hand and walks round hissing a lot. it's one of those long ones with the two hand hole ends.

[thefriarandme]

Give them to Long John Silver for his birthday!

[MKG]

I buy only black socks ... odd ones can't exist.

[Fizzy Izzy]

My husband uses old holey socks to patch up the holes in his jeans pockets....

[Green Rosie]

Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant - I have so many odd socks but I just can't bring myself to throw them out - after all the other one will of course turn up the second the first has been chucked. If some-one could tell me where the blighters go I would be a very happy bunny? Perhaps they metamophose into dust?

As for uses:
If the lone sock in question is wool you can compost it

[witch way?]

Wee wipes?

[MKG]

But it is interesting, isn't it - where, actually, do all the odd socks go? Is there an odd-sock universe "elsewhere" where they live happily with pen tops, paper clips, the books you can never find until you're looking for something else, and gas fitters?

[Thomzo]

But it is interesting, isn't it - where, actually, do all the odd socks go? Is there an odd-sock universe "elsewhere" where they live happily with pen tops, paper clips, the books you can never find until you're looking for something else, and gas fitters?

Nope! I can scientifically prove that they metamorphose into wire coat hangers.

Zoe

[QuakerBear]

There's no such thing as an odd sock. I pair up Mr. QB's left over socks and he just puts them on in the morning and I don't think he's noticed yet.

[Gytrash]

Willie Warmer.

Must be at least size 10 though, eh guys?


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