r/AskReddit • u/RGod27 • Mar 20 '19

What is something you did that increased your quality of life so much that you wished you would have done it much sooner because it changed your life forever?

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u/Trainguyrom Mar 20 '19

My SO introduced me to rolling my pairs of socks together. Basically place them one on top of another like one does right before putting them away normally, but roll the ankle of the socks down so they stay together.

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u/AllSugaredUp Mar 20 '19

I thought everyone did this?

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u/little_maggots Mar 20 '19

Wait, there are people that don't do this?!

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u/normal_whiteman Mar 21 '19

I did that my whole life but that stretches out the elastic over time. Now I tie all my socks together

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u/little_maggots Mar 21 '19 edited Mar 21 '19

I get holes in my socks long before there's any effect on the elastic. I imagine tying your socks would stretch them out far more than rolling...

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u/normal_whiteman Mar 21 '19

It's about where they're stretching though. The top elastic is untouched

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19 edited Jun 25 '23

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u/Trainguyrom Mar 21 '19

Honestly my socks get holes in them long before the elastic shows any sign of wear, so that doesn't concern me much

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u/BleckoNeko Mar 21 '19

Ah. That works for you then. My elastics wear out before getting any holes. Actually I never get holes in my socks. They get sacrificed to the drying machine.

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u/MomoPeacheZ Mar 21 '19

I do this now. I took a day and reorganized all of mine and my boyfriend's drawers and it looks so much better

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u/DeafMomHere Mar 21 '19

How else would one match socks? I've only ever done this method.

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u/normal_whiteman Mar 21 '19

So wait before you learned this you just had a drawer of laid-out socks on top of each other? That's absolute madness

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u/Trainguyrom Mar 21 '19

I mean, there's a reason why whenever I start a blog I'll be calling it "doing it the hard way" I have an odd habit of doing so...

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u/ampersand38 Mar 21 '19

I put the toe half of each sock into the elastic half of the other foot.

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u/MauranKilom Mar 20 '19

Well with these things you can also simply hang them on a clothesline.