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5,601 | daddit | >That’s just my two cents though I only offered a penny for your thoughts. Inflation is hitting everybody hard! |
5,602 | daddit | I'm sorry to hear people didn't help out, this sub is usually great |
5,603 | daddit | In my perfect world, children's socks would just be a different color according to their size. Like all size 3-7 socks are red and all 7-10 socks are blue. |
5,604 | daddit | I'm 52 with a pregnant girlfriend. So you're saying all socks should be one color then? |
5,605 | daddit | Do you guys fold and matchup socks? |
5,606 | daddit | There’s a special circle of hell for whoever had the idea to start selling toddler socks in packs that are 6 pairs with 6 different designs. But jokes on them because my 3 year old only ever wears matching socks on the week after we buy a new pack. Not like he has anyone to impress. |
5,607 | daddit | Wait until your daughter is a teen and you can't tell the difference between your wife's panties and your daughter's panties. A new level of horror. |
5,608 | daddit | Washable mesh laundry bags for each type of clothing. Dirty clothes are sorted when taken off and placed into the proper dirty bag. They are washed and dried in the bags. The bulk of socks we buy match. Dump socks bag in the socks drawer. Dump underwear bag in underwear drawer. PJs get dumped into PJs drawer. Etc, etc, etc. Shirts are hung. No one's clothes get mixed up. Very little folding. Super fast. And kids can put away all their clothes as young as 3 or 4. |
5,609 | daddit | I like the socks, they’re the dessert |
5,610 | daddit | Folding laundry is one of the best chores because you can just watch TV while you do it. |
5,611 | daddit | Our family made the decision that matching socks is a bonus, fun thing, not a requirement. "Oh hey, your sucks match. Nice!" I don't think any of my kids have had matching socks in 6 years and it's so nice not having to hunt down the correct sock. As long as they're similar heights, they're good to go. |
5,612 | daddit | My wife has worked out a system where she throws all the clean clothes onto the sofa and then just picks out what she needs from the giant pile. |
5,613 | daddit | The problem just goes away when you send your kid to school in different colored socks. |
5,614 | daddit | I tried to get all identical socks for the little guy.. I was overruled. |
5,615 | daddit | *Inside out* small human clothes. |
5,616 | daddit | Fuck I could fold towels all day. |
5,617 | daddit | I never matched my socks, and thus my children don't, either. When they're old enough to put them on themselves, they can match them if they like. Until then, you're getting the first two socks in your size that I can find. Hopefully they're clean. |
5,618 | daddit | Honestly, [*mi-parti*](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mi-parti) was the height of fashion for over half a millennium. We only missed it by a couple of centuries, so why not bring it back for the sake of practicality? |
5,619 | daddit | Thank you for the gold, kind stranger! I will use it to buy same-colored socks. |
5,620 | daddit | I think what is worse is cleaning all the pieces of a day's worth of bottles. |
5,621 | daddit | I’ve started making a socks and undies only load. It’s satisfying to just knock those out. |
5,622 | daddit | Luckily our 3 month old has only worn socks once, I dread the day when it’s no longer acceptable to send them out in sleepers. Hopefully that’s like age 5 or 6. |
5,623 | daddit | I specifically tried to find plain white socks and could not find them anywhere for babies. The only option was the multi color pack. Luckily no one cares what baby socks look like since they don’t even walk. |
5,624 | daddit | Every few months we buy 4 packages of a different type of toddler sock, all plain white. When we find a stray version of the old ones it goes to the donate bin. |
5,625 | daddit | Just wait until your teenage daughter is old enough that her underwear is easily confused with the wife's underwear. Oh hell naw! I'm ABSOLUTELY NOT looking at panties close enough to determine if those skimpy things are my wife's or my daughter's. They can fold that load. I'm not touching it. I'll gladly wait for the towel load to help out with the folding. |
5,626 | daddit | That was me when I was 9-17 when I was folding all of the laundry in the household |
5,627 | daddit | I havent folded in 4 years since my first was born. Tbh its about 1/10 loads that actually get put away from the basket. We just have 7 baskets... our time is taken up with so much that chore is just no longer a priority |
5,628 | daddit | We bought a bunch of bombas socks with weird patterns. I make no effort to match them. I just sort by grippy bottom and not grippy bottom. If you need matching socks, there are white ones. |
5,629 | daddit | My kids don't care if their socks match, I certainly don't either. The clean socks just get thrown in the sock bucket and they can grab two out when they want. |
5,630 | daddit | Here it takes a load of kids laundry every 5-6 days to keep it under control. Throw our laundry in for once a week, occasional towels, whites, sheets, and emergency washes, it's a load every 2-3 days. |
5,631 | daddit | And that's why my son lives in baby grows that don't require socks. |
5,632 | daddit | This thread reminded me I needed to fold laundry. |
5,633 | daddit | Life is too short for matching socks. |
5,634 | daddit | My wife hid the wee ones socks and lays out a single pair because I would just grab 2 |
5,635 | daddit | 46? Man you must have a small washing machine! |
5,636 | daddit | Give up on that and just call them being the same size a win. If your kid is old enough you can say they picked their own, then it's seen as cute. |
5,637 | daddit | I feel this on every level. I get excited for just towels and blankets. |
5,638 | daddit | Fuck small human clothes. |
5,639 | daddit | I am blessed with a child that hates socks. The only pair we ever have to wash is the trampoline gym place that requires them. |
5,640 | daddit | I’m just lurking this sub trying to learn as much as I can in the next several months when we will have our first…but MAN you saved my skin reminding me to do laundry! THANKS! |
5,641 | daddit | Why are you folding kid's clothes? Just sort types (shirts, pants, underwear, etc] and go. |
5,642 | daddit | My kids are 13 and 10 and they still don't care if their socks match. |
5,643 | daddit | Three baskets of laundry to fold? Fold all the towels. Now there's only one and a half baskets of clothes. Progress. |
5,644 | daddit | It could be worse you could also have to wash and fold clothe diapers |
5,645 | daddit | Love this |
5,646 | daddit | God yes. Waiting on the third dryer load right now…only big fluffies. Absolutely pumped. |
5,647 | daddit | Which reminds me his clothes are in the dryer |
5,648 | daddit | pfsh, "mix 'n match socks" galore - adds to the charm, alongside acceptance standards are *eh* |
5,649 | daddit | Aww, I love folding my little guy's clothes. I will sorely miss doing that chore when he gets older. |
5,650 | daddit | If I had my way my children would be color coded by age, and just have 8 pairs of the same clothes each. Especially socks. |
5,651 | daddit | We use bins. No folding. One size one color of sock. |
5,652 | daddit | I have just given up with socks. Is there two of them? Do they fit? Job done. And my child hasn't even arrived yet, I've just been doing all the laundry |
5,653 | daddit | The weird thing is, you kinda miss those little moments when your child is grown up |
5,654 | daddit | Life is too short to fold socks and underwear |
5,655 | daddit | I don’t fold clothes, don’t sort by color, or use hot water in the washer. Feel like that’s all just shit to make a simple task more difficult |
5,656 | daddit | My wife has a TON of these little black Hanes socks. All with different colored "Hanes" stitched into the tip of the toes. There are 4 different colored pink variants alone. There's a light pink, a slightly dark pink, a peach and a coral. I'll still take doing the socks over washing silverware. ​ I cannot stand it. |
5,657 | daddit | My 4yo son, thankfully, doesn’t care that his socks don’t match…yet. |
5,658 | daddit | I don't like to splurge on things, but I will happily pay for our laundry to be sent out and done. I will wash pants and towels, everything else gets sent out. Some people pay for a cleaning company. I will pay for the laundry to get done. |
5,659 | daddit | A completely untouched red toddler sock is just sitting in the drawer waiting to be worn for the first time. Either Mom put the other somewhere that's not the sock drawer or that pack just didn't come with a pair. Incredibly frustrating. |
5,660 | daddit | This is so spot on LOL! I work from home so I do all of the laundry--I'm still amazed at losing little socks when I go to fold and then finding them days/weeks later. |
5,661 | daddit | For myself and now my little one. Buy 2 or 3 packs of socks all the same. Think Costco 8-10 pairs. Never worry about matching again. I just throw them in a drawer. I don't even fold them. I also don't fold my boxers. Life is too short to waste time matching socks. |
5,662 | daddit | I just wish my wife would stop buying my 4 year old the pack of multi colored socks because only she seems to care about matching them anymore, my son and I are over it. |
5,663 | daddit | This is a fantastic idea. They don't even have to be the same color if each size has a unique pattern. |
5,664 | daddit | Fuuuuccckkk are you me? The worst part is that 2-3 by one company will fit 2-3. But so will 4-5 from another. Kids in 3 pants, 4-5 underwear and 6-7 shirt. Why, because fuck you that’s why. It is the one time ill say girl clothes are easier than boys. Dresses and leggings/shorts are pretty standard across the board. |
5,665 | daddit | A family member thought it would be cute to get our two matching packs of socks for Christmas - so not only does that mean matching pairs, but you also have to play the guessing game of what size they are |
5,666 | daddit | The easy solution to this is to buy socks that have a brand tag on them, and buy a specific brand for each person. For example, my wife and I only get puma socks from Costco. My teenage son who has the same size feet as me only gets one certain brand. My daughters, same story. Makes sorting so much easier. Granted at this point I've got my son doing his own laundry so that point is almost moot, but every now and then clothes still end up in the wrong basket and it makes figuring this out a breeze. |
5,667 | daddit | There’s a brand where all the socks of the same size have a large coloured dot on the sole, same colour for the same size despite the different coloured socks. Different sizes have different coloured dots. Looks cool, but now only one kid has small enough feet to match, and they don’t have XL men’s size socks. |
5,668 | daddit | >I'm 52 with a pregnant girlfriend. Some unsolicited advice from another old dude: if you're not already, start doing yoga, or pilates or martial arts or something (I ride an ebike for my health.) It's a choice to stay in shape now or do physical therapy later when your back gives out from hauling a kid and all their stuff around. |
5,669 | daddit | r/OldManDad |
5,670 | daddit | Oh god yes The "assorted colors" are a trap |
5,671 | daddit | Yes. Also, if a baby shits all over their onsie, just cut it off and throw it out. There is no getting them clean and they cost like $2. |
5,672 | daddit | 100% yes. My kids are older so they fold their own laundry now. But I wish I did that when they were babies. All of my daily wear socks are one color and style and I just toss them into their own drawer. |
5,673 | daddit | Dude, best wishes. |
5,674 | daddit | Fold, no. Match, yes. Am I a hero? I won't say no. |
5,675 | daddit | Just pair them and roll pairs together. I have no idea how every friggin' wash cycle ends up with some 10% (on average) of socks missing their pair... |
5,676 | daddit | Match, iron and fold. Don’t you? Just kidding, it goes all in the same drawer, and who cares what comes out? Just kidding again. My wife handles laundry and turns me away every time I try to help. She says she enjoys it. Who would have thought? I found that out after the wedding. I’m a lucky man. |
5,677 | daddit | No. Now, my kids are older (9 and 13), so all I do is dump their clean stuff in a pile in front of their door and tell them to put it away. I couldn’t care less if it’s folded or just jammed in a drawer or hung on a hanger. Just get it off the floor and put away. Honestly - that’s how I handle all laundry including my own. Work shirts/pants get dry cleaned so I do get to cheat there. But otherwise I have zero time/energy to fold the mountains of laundry we have. |
5,678 | daddit | My wife does… for both kids… I married a crazy person, but she’s perfect for me. |
5,679 | daddit | I bundle them up when the kid takes them off so they’re always in a pair when it’s time to wash. Then I bundle them up when the laundry is done and toss them in a little bin in her drawer. You know what I mean? Like folding the top of the sock over the other one so they stay together? |
5,680 | daddit | Fuck no. |
5,681 | daddit | About a year ago I got rid of all the kid socks and bought all brand new matching(or coordinating) socks for both kids. Big kid socks go on this bin, and small kid socks go in this other bin. It has saved so much time and was worth every penny so I did the same with my own socks. |
5,682 | daddit | Am always in a rush, non-stop, like many of you. What gets low priority most days? My young kids rarely have matching socks in their dressers. I hired a housekeeper to try to help but the impact/value was minimal. I'm doing my best, will try to be better, but mismatched socks are not the end of the world all things considered. |
5,683 | daddit | Put one sock inside of the matching sock-that way they will stay together in the drawer |
5,684 | daddit | My wife and I got tired of this and thought we would solve the problem of color matching in one fell swoop by adding white socks to the mix for my two children (3 & 1)… white socks… same color, brand and style… but two sizes. Now we have mismatched sizes of white socks in addition to mismatched colors that we never got rid of. |
5,685 | daddit | It's an easy system really The bluey underpants are my wife's |
5,686 | daddit | That’s easy the cute sexy ones are the daughters, the boring dumpy ones are the wife’s. Ugh. |
5,687 | daddit | Ha! I just posted the same thing before reading yours. I feel ya, brother. It's so hard being dad to a 16yo girl. A wise man one said, when you have a teenage son, you only have to worry about one dick. When you have a teenage daughter, you gotta worry about all of them. Gotta go clean my shotgun... |
5,688 | daddit | Tbf I imagine my wife probably will have a few sizes on where my daughter when that becomes a problem. |
5,689 | daddit | Do you not find it's harder to dry the clothes packed into the bags? |
5,690 | daddit | Allow me to advise against eating your child's socks. |
5,691 | daddit | Weirdly, I understand this comment. |
5,692 | daddit | Or listen to music/podcasts/audio books, which is my favorite activity to do when doing any chore. |
5,693 | daddit | I happen to fold a lot of laundry on Sunday afternoons… |
5,694 | daddit | It was until "posh peanut" entered the scene and now half the clothes have to hang dry. Complicates things a bit and I forget they're there often. Of course the fancy clothes last longer, I forgot to take them off the drying rack for 3 weeks. |
5,695 | daddit | I never really considered this... now I'm going to go score huge with my wife by offering to do more laundry instead of whatever else needs to be done. |
5,696 | daddit | Folding laundry is one of the best chores because kids can do it themselves from an early age. Laundry pods and dishwasher tabs are worth the extra money if they enable you to delegate an hour of chores each week, a few years earlier. Good for the kids development to do real work. |
5,697 | daddit | Wow, this one is a game changer |
5,698 | daddit | If enough of us convince our kids that it's cool again, we can create fashion trends! That's how it works, right? Kids will take clothing advice from their dads, yes? |
5,699 | daddit | I'm surprised we're not foldin right now! |
5,700 | daddit | Or the lost ones you find under cribs/beds after a few days of marinating... nightmares... |
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