On this frigid Michigan morning, with high temperatures predicted to be in the mid teens (F) and wind chills below zero, I think it’s only appropriate to talk about socks. This is the kind of morning that I want to snuggle up on the sofa with comfy warm clothes under a blanket and my dog, and contemplate life’s mysteries.
Over the years I have purchased many warm socks. To my knowledge they all arrived in pairs, two of each pattern, color and style. But for many weeks I have only been able to find matching pairs on a handful of occasions. Unless there’s a huge pile of socks behind the dryer I suggest that my dog has hidden them on purpose.
This morning, with the wind blowing snow across the driveway, Penny and I head out into the dark to do her business. On my feet are mismatched socks. After all, who decided socks need to match anyway?
Penny agrees. What do you think?
Change Is Hard 
December 12, 2024 at 9:20 am
Ah, those mysteries of life. Where do socks go off to when they go walkabout? What, exactly, are those hangers up to in the closet that makes them multiply? What life force animates car keys and sends them off to hidden corners of the world? Who knows?
(Although when only one sock of a pair is around, it doesn’t get worn until I find the mate.)
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December 13, 2024 at 9:21 am
You are much more disciplined than me. I’m pretty sure I have a pile of single socks somewhere, yearning for their mates.
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December 12, 2024 at 9:40 am
I am so not a sock person. Even when we get the Florida version of cold and I am wrapped in a sweater, I cannot wear socks.
Also, I told Penny the word is mum to Mom. 🤐🤫
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December 13, 2024 at 9:22 am
But socks are soooo warm and comfy! But I get it. If you don’t like them you don’t…good thing you’re in Florida where much of the year socks would not be a thing.
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December 12, 2024 at 9:47 am
Good morning Dawn! It does not matter if socks match – as long as they are warm & cozy. There are several companies that sell sets 5 socks. None match but are in complimentary colors. I think many of us were “trending” before it was cool! Stay warm! 😊
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December 12, 2024 at 9:52 am
Actually, you are quite in style with your mismatched socks. It’s a thing now (I suspect the trend started when one could not find the matching sock, but I might be wrong)
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December 12, 2024 at 10:49 am
Hahaha. I think the young people have made a trend of wearing mismatched socks, so you are right in style.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:54 am
Absolutely no reason they should match – after all, they’re going to be covered by shoes or boots when you’re out in public.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:56 am
As a member of the OCD club, I marvel at people who can wear a mismatched pair of socks. That’s why I buy my socks to all match.
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December 12, 2024 at 12:39 pm
I have the same problem! I now wash my sheets separately from my socks because oftentimes they get stuck there. Also…I don’t think Penny took them at all. Check behind the dryer…….but…….like you……mine are constantly missing. I think there is some mysterious invisible sockforce who comes to take them away while we are sleeping. lol Stay warm! I told Levi all he was doing this morning was going out to pee and that we were NOT walking!!!! Took me longer to get bundled up to go out than it took for him to pee and us to come back inside.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:35 pm
I’d never be comfortable in mismatched socks, but that’s just me. I’ve had socks ball up in bed sheets before, and I won’t find the pair until the next time I change the bed. I think it’s a sock conspiracy — they play hide-and-seek with us until we’re screaming mad! Maybe that’s what those mesh lingerie bags are for, to keep everything together during a wash cycle??
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December 12, 2024 at 2:47 pm
I am picky about my socks. I have dozens of pairs, different styles and colors. I fold them and place them neatly into my sock drawer(s) in rainbow order. If I have a sock without a pair when they come out of the dryer, it is banned from the sock drawer until its partner shows up. Sometimes it sits there for months, and suddenly there’s the other sock. I have no idea how that’s possible, but what can ya do? I just feel so much better dressed when my socks match, even if people can’t see them most of the time. 🙂
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December 12, 2024 at 6:53 pm
Good thinking! Let us break free of the tyranny of matching socks!
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December 12, 2024 at 8:40 pm
I used to buy Karen Neuburger chenille socks to wear in my boots when waiting for the bus. I had different colors, all just came to the ankles and they kept my feet toasty, but invariably I’d lose a few wherever, in the wash and/or they would turn up later inside of something else, but I grabbed what I had to wear in the cold, usually a mishmash of mismatched socks. I didn’t care as long as my feet were warm. Now everything is white crew socks for walking and under my boots … how droll and boring I’ve become!
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December 14, 2024 at 5:32 am
Jeff and I are downsizing this spring and one of my main concerns that keeps me up at night is where I will store all my socks! So, I’m planning on throwing away all my “one’s”, but it’s hard to give up hope that their partner will be found at any moment (like inside the arm of a shirt I hardly ever wear) 😅
Jeff and I were at the VA recently and a man in the waiting room was wearing two wildly different colored crocs on his feet. Jeff said, “I can’t wait to be like him, where I just don’t care if I’m matching.”
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