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What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Sharing socks. My family used to have a sock basket next to our shoes. You didn't own your own socks, you just grab a pair when you need them.
I mentioned "the sock basket" offhand to a friend in elementary school and she thought it was crazy. That's when I learned that not every family has a community sock basket. Looking it up though, I find a couple reddit threads from people with the same experience (and people replying that it's weird) 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't you have different sized feet?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This was the first thing I thought of. I wonder what percentage of households consist of members who all have the same foot size? That's got to be abnormal. What, do the 5 year olds suddenly sprout size-12 feet? They don't wear socks before then?

    This story sounds utterly suspicious.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ~50% of men probably wear a size 9-11 shoe

    That's a "Large" sock

    Man with a size 8 shoe could probably still wear a "Large" sock and be fine.

    ~75% of women wear a size 7-9

    Women with 6 or 6.5 should still be able to wear a 7-9 sized sock.

    Families have genetically similar feet

    I know from my experience, my father, my brother, and I all wear the same size. We all had different preferences and our own socks, but I could have easily worn their socks.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah it's definitely more reasonable than maybe it seems.

    As kids we had pretty similarly sized feet. And I don't think I noticed if the socks I was wearing were too big or too small anyway, even now I have some socks that are bigger or smaller than others.

    And my parents had their own socks, so the sock basket was just for me and the sibs.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, in my mid-40s, this is a new one. As long as they're clean and fit, why not?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are socks ever clean enough? Would you do this with underwear, and why not?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why wouldn't they be? I would assume that socks only go in the family sock basket after going through the washer/dryer.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My daughters share school socks, because they are all the same colour and shape. So I guess this concept isn't too unreasonable to do it on a whole family level.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is unintentionally how we do it. We split up the socks after cleaning them but like a day later mom is wearing the oldest ones socks and the oldest one is wearing dads socks, and the little one has one sock from the older brother and another he found under the couch buried in dog hair.

    Same same.

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