What to do with old socks

You could turn them into soft toys, by rolling into a ball, stitching together, and emboidering a face, as I have just done.

Comments

[Sam]

Is this as serious as the Times gets about making suggestions as to what can be done to avert the catastropie of Climate Change?

[Stephen]

It's too bad that real, substantial, and beneficial change is usually not sensational.

Making a sock puppet:

1. Develops a useful skill
2. Produces a useful toy
3. Promotes the value of self-sufficiency to the next generation
4. Suppresses the manufacture of a store bought toy
5. Reduces the rate of household waste generation
6. Removes the need for the trip to the store
7. Removes tax dollars from the government's revenue stream

If those benefits are uninteresting or undesired, I have an alternate suggestion.

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[Diana]

We still have juggling balls made from toddler socks - the ex toddlers being good jugglers! But now as teens, their soon to be ex socks are unfit for that purpose - they are more hole than sock. I could shred them even more to stuff a cushion or possibly make a strand or two of a rag rug.
As for serious suggestions - the same teens rarely call on Mum's taxi, preferring to cycle, bus, walk or train it. And as for buying vast quantities of cheap to buy fashion clothes that will head off to landfill very shortly... all their clothes are more hole than fabric before I'm allowed to put them out for the scraps collection and they don't do clothes shopping - period.

[Rachael]

These Sock People will, of course, enrich your life, and who knows how long they will live now that they can communicate. They have a history and some importance. They could go a funny yellow colour and end up in a case at the British Museum. People would have a hunch they were important and the reasons for their existence could be slightly unclear, but they would be treasured because they are asking us to think about something. They are striking up an in depth conversation about socks, which we could all partake in. Wonderful.