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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:45 am
by 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

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:49 pm
by 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.

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:11 pm
by 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)

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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:20 pm
by 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!!

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:37 am
by 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! :mrgreen:

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:46 pm
by 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.

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:42 pm
by thefriarandme
Give them to Long John Silver for his birthday! :lol:

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:33 pm
by MKG
I buy only black socks ... odd ones can't exist.

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:57 pm
by Fizzy Izzy
My husband uses old holey socks to patch up the holes in his jeans pockets....

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:46 am
by 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 :flower:

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:46 am
by witch way?
Wee wipes?

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:10 am
by 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?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:05 pm
by Thomzo
MKG wrote: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

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:54 pm
by 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.

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:17 pm
by Gytrash
Willie Warmer.

Must be at least size 10 though, eh guys? :wink: :mrgreen:


(Edit: well, it worked for the Red Hot Chili Pepper lads!
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=89395 )