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Post by LAM88 on Nov 17, 2014 14:37:43 GMT
My boys' high school has an artificial turf football field which they also use for gym. Sometimes when they go out there , my boys come home with little balls of astroturf stuck all over their socks like velcro, but it's worse than velcro because you can't just pull them off. They somehow become intertwined with the threads on the socks so that you would have to rip them out one by one, ripping the thread of the socks as well. What the heck? I have no intention of ripping turf balls one by one off of every sock, but OTOH, I'm tired of having expensive socks ruined. Has anyone found a solution? TIA
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Post by monklady123 on Nov 17, 2014 16:55:37 GMT
Yes. A solution to this and to the problem of socks in general. Buy the huge pack of plain white athletic socks at Costco (or Sam's or wherever). Buy two packs even. Dump all in one drawer. Voila -- no more sorting problems, and no worries when the turf gets stuck or they get dirty beyond the washing machine's ability to clean them, etc. And, if the socks are actual team socks -- like the football ones, for instance (my ds played football) -- I just tossed them in the washer and that was the end of that. No one can see them from the bleachers and no one else cares. Yeah, I was a slacker mom in some things.  |
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Post by LAM88 on Nov 17, 2014 18:02:04 GMT
Yes. A solution to this and to the problem of socks in general. Buy the huge pack of plain white athletic socks at Costco (or Sam's or wherever). Buy two packs even. Dump all in one drawer. Voila -- no more sorting problems, and no worries when the turf gets stuck or they get dirty beyond the washing machine's ability to clean them, etc. And, if the socks are actual team socks -- like the football ones, for instance (my ds played football) -- I just tossed them in the washer and that was the end of that. No one can see them from the bleachers and no one else cares. Yeah, I was a slacker mom in some things. I didn't really care when the I first started seeing pairs of their old socks with astroturf all over them, and I just washed and put them away as they were. But I just spent $50 on white athletic socks for both my kids, and when they came back looking like crap after just one wearing, it annoyed the crap out of me. And then when one of their fancy Adidas $15/pair socks came back ruined, I was really irritated. I was thinking of asking my kids to save the "good" socks for days they don't have PE, but that's really asking a lot of them to pick particular socks for particular days at 630am. I guess I just need to let it go. |
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Post by quiltz on Nov 17, 2014 18:33:24 GMT
I was thinking of asking my kids to save the "good" socks for days they don't have PE, but that's really asking a lot of them to pick particular socks for particular days at 630am. I guess I just need to let it go. * * * No, it is not asking a lot of your kids. Get stuff ready the night before, no rush in the am. By this time & at their age, they should have learned or should be learning about the value of items. All part of parenting and teaching them the stuff in life.
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Post by fotos4u2 on Nov 20, 2014 4:46:12 GMT
I'm with monklady, I just threw them in the wash and didn't even give it another thought. Of course my kids weren't on the turf all the time only at soccer games and they never complained about the socks being ruined afterwards.
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