Originally Posted by
Chasing Hawk
I mend all kinds of things around the house. Such as patching jeans, sewing buttons back on, hemming jeans, shorts, dresses and skirts. I draw the line at socks......If they have a hole into the trash they go my husband wears one brand of socks (Hanes grey toe and heel) so if I need a mate I look in the orphan sock drawer and make a new pair.
My oldest came up with a way to mark the pairs of his Hanes gray toe socks. He would put a black (or red or blue) on the H for one pair, then on the A for the next pair, then on the N, and so forth.
If he had lots of new socks going into circulatiion, he would mark the H above the bar on one pair and below the H on another pair.
This system made it a lot easier to pair up clean socks.