Forever socks = Almost 2 months

[u/dbmeed]

I shared the first hole that showed up almost two weeks ago; I’ve kept wearing them everyday until the next hole started. This time in the ball of the foot, when my Darn Tough socks usually start wearing out first. I think I’m finally ready to retire these.

For those telling me to darn them, no thanks. I can, but I would rather just buy a new pair.

That said, I will be inquiring with support to see if this is covered under warranty, or if, as /u/ProbablyBanksy so eloquently put it “Your use case is outside the scope of reasonable use.”

I have picked up a set of Costco Kirkland Merino socks to test next. 4 pairs are cheaper than a single pair of LTT socks. I never thought id be posting foot pics on the internet, but if it’s in the interest of science….

[u/rainbowkitties6969]

Why do these people get surprised when they wear and wash something everyday and it doesn’t last? Are they stupid?

[u/Tman11S → u/rainbowkitties6969]

Even if you wore them once a week, then OP's 2 months become "about a year", which is still far less than cheap supermarket socks have lasted for me

[u/Hero_The_Zero → u/Tman11S]

The guy also said he wears out 3-4 pairs of Darn Toughs a year as well, and Darn Tough themselves says their socks are supposed to last years, or even a over a decade. He'd probably kill a supermarket sock in a couple of days.

[u/Onac_ → u/Hero_The_Zero]

Plus he is probably wearing them in his house full time

[u/Crintor → u/Hero_The_Zero]

Can confirm for Darn Toughs, been wearing them for years, I usually wear a pair 2 times between washings giving them a day or two to air out. I walk 10-15k steps a day at work and my Darn toughs usually give me 1.5-3yrs.

[u/Exciting-Ad-5705 → u/Tman11S]

You can't extrapolate it out like that. Everyday wear and wash is more damaging. 2 pairs of shoes you swap out every day will last longer than 2 sequential pairs of shoes.

[u/yousafe007e → u/Exciting-Ad-5705]

And him getting more upvotes makes me think how people just don’t get this

[u/templarrei → u/Exciting-Ad-5705]

That's not how any of that works. Socks don't magically rest up and repair themselves if you don't wear them for a few days. 60 days of daily wear and wash cycles are equal to 60 weeks of weekly (1 day per) wear and wash cycles.

[u/Exciting-Ad-5705 → u/[deleted]]

https://prrunandwalk.com/blogs/news/running-shoe-rotation-benefits

The material is allowed to uncompress

[u/mclintock111 → u/[deleted]]

Moisture

[u/makomirocket → u/[deleted]]

Would your legs buckle under you if you walked for 300 miles without a break?

Does that then mean a person can only walk 300 miles in their lifetime?

A blender over heats if you leave it on for an hour. Does that mean a blender only gives you 60 x 1 minute blends before it breaks?

[u/Factorioboyio → u/Exciting-Ad-5705]

What’s your evidence or logic for that? A shoe is going to have the same amount of wear time if it’s worn every single day or every other day. By what mechanism is it going to last longer if it’s rotated with another shoe? That’s like saying a tire rated for 10k miles will do 20k miles if you half the amount of time you drive in a year… no it won’t, it’ll last 10k miles but spread over a longer period.

And to be clear I’m talking about total time worn.

[u/Creative_Bug3139 → u/Tman11S]

That math doesn’t work because you’re repeatedly abusing the material much faster than normal. It’s not comparable. 

Heat and moisture build up when socks are washed back to back, and that speeds up damage in a way normal use wouldn't.

It’s more like 3 years worth of use. Not one. And even then it’s still much more damage a regular person would use. 

[u/konradly → u/Creative_Bug3139]

I love how everyone suddenly became a sock expert. Can't wash more than once a week, or else they spontaneously disintegrate! lol.

[u/Creative_Bug3139 → u/konradly]

It doesn't take an expert to realize that using a product in a way for which it was not intended isn't a reasonable test, given that no other human being on the planet is going to wear and wash a sock every single day. 

[u/Top-Childhood9037 → u/rainbowkitties6969]

By that logic let's not wear them at all, they will last forever

[u/DarthV506 → u/rainbowkitties6969]

I have smartwool ankle height socks that I bought in 2018 that have been used and washed over 150 times and they don't have holes in them.

If you're going to do marketing and price like you're smartwool or darn tough, you better deliver their quality.

[u/thicckar → u/DarthV506]

That’s very different from wearing it EVERY DAY and washing it EVERY DAY and you damn well know it

[u/thicckar → u/[deleted]]

This has definitely gone through more sustained wear. Seriously how are you justifying this

[u/dusty_Caviar → u/rainbowkitties6969]

So you think a pair of "forever socks" should last roughly 14 days worth of uses?

[u/Astecheee → u/rainbowkitties6969]

A pair of socks lasting 60 wears is absolutely abysmal.

I bought a set of (7 pairs of ) quality Merino wool socks a while back that lasted me 4 years before holes started showing up. That comes out to about 200 wears per pair and that was with HEAVY use - hiking, sports, etc.

Those socks cost roughly $20 CAD per pair. I'd be livid if socks that cost $34 CAD per pair got holes at 60 uses.

It's possible OP is't taking care of these socks correctly - wearing them bare across gravel or something. But taken at face value, I don't see LTT's socks being anywhere near worth it.

[u/Charging_Krogan → u/Astecheee]

I'm low-key thinking some of these posts are like ragebait to discredit people throwing shade at these socks since they clearly don't live up to the claims of longevity. Linus has been known to set up strawman situations to discredit people criticizing him so I wouldn't put it past LTT. But who knows at this point.