Old sock: a creative game

[bubblegirl23]

When I woke up this morning I found my toe has finally come through my hot pink bed sock. This lead me to think of a creative game.

101 uses for a sock: (with or without holes!)

1. Sock puppet
2. Stuff it & give to cat as playtoy
3. part of a door-snake
4. sew to chair as TV remote holder
5. A strainer - remember Mr. Bean strained his lettuce in one?!?!

Your turn.....

 

[mina]

ewww socks ewwww

 

[bubblegirl23]

You wash them first! And my socks are clean thanks - just holey!

 

[Thithy]

~sew several pairs together and make a hat
~stuff it with pouperie (I have no idea if I spelled that right, probably not, but I'm talking about the good smelly leaves and what not), and hide it in inconspicuous places to make ~your house, car, room, or whatever smell nice.

 

[KeilCoppes]

8. Stuff it with lavender, tie off the end and use for a neck massager. Can also be zapped in the microwave for a heated massage. Works best with really long socks. (I have one like this that was given as a gift.)
9. Find a safety pin and a jar of Vicks Vap-o-rub. Works great when you have a throat cold. Rub Vicks on your neck and use the sock and pin to keep the Vicks on your throat.

 

[Grimace]

10. tie a knot in the middle and use it as a pull-toy with your dog

11. cut it into pieces and make pincushions

12. place a brick into it and use it as a self-defense mechanism

13. take a pair, stitch them together, and make a flute warmer out of them (always a good thing to have on those chilly November nights so your lips won't get stuck to the flute! )

 

[KeilCoppes]

A brick? ouch! Original, though.

I never would have thought of a flute warmer, but I will counter -

14. Cut five holes in the end of each and use them as almost gloves for the winter nights when the part of the house that the piano is in is down to 50 degrees because the price of heating oil went up by 75% ...

15. Fill several with cotton, linked end to end to look like a snake. Add plastic eyes on one end and put next to a door to keep the drafts down.

 

[MadeInOz]

16. a cheap, if smelly, balaclava...
17. a computer mouse warmer, for those late winter typing nights

 

[KeilCoppes]

a balaclava, what's that? I assume it's nothing like baklava?

18. If you happen to be a prisoner of war, take a note from the Great Escape (best WWII escape movie ever) and use them to smuggle dirt from your escape tunnel out to the compound.

 

[Grimace]

19. cut off the toe end and put it on your arm as an arm-warmer (I remember doing this in high school )

20. use it as a Christmas stocking

 

[fishstix]

a balaclava, what's that? I assume it's nothing like baklava?

It's a sort of winter hat. Usually made of knitted yarn. It goes right down over your face and has holes for the eyes and sometimes for the mouth. It's the stereotypical bankrobber tuque (stocking cap for you Americans).

Anyway, to add to the list:

21. Use it for buffing your shoes after you polish them.
22. Wear it on your foot (surprised no one else put that one yet )

 

[KeilCoppes]

Thanks.

24. Use it to keep your golf clubs clean (if you golf, which I don't)
25. Cache them in the glove box to use when the steering wheel gets hot in the summer

 

[Grimace]

23. unravel the sock and use the thread to knit a new sock (sans hole in toe, of course)

 

[fishstix]

25 made me think of another one:

26. Use it as a rag to wipe the dipstick when you check the oil in your vehicle.

 

[purple85]

27. wear them on ur hands to do the dusting with! can get unto awkward places more easily!

 

[KeilCoppes]

28. Mend the holes, fill three or four with beans, sew the tops together, and you have a chew toy either for your baby or your pekenese. (I have neither, but it's an idea)

 

[Grimace]

29. put it up against your door so the spiders won't come in (one of the pitfalls of living in the basement )

30. tie your hair back with it

 

[KeilCoppes]

31. Add a drawstring and store your marble collection in it.

 

[JPPT1974]

32. Use lots and lots of deordorant

 

[bubblegirl23]

sock, like underwear, don't smell if they are worn one day then washed. JPPT, if you need a lot of deodorant on yours, I don't want to hear how long you use yours