One slightly different path here is socks. If a sock lives long enough for its elastic to wear out it can go to “garage clothes” category. Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate. Another path for socks to “garage clothes” is if fashion trends finally evolving so far that wearing those socks will get admonishment from the gf/wife if worn out in public. However, as soon as a sock has a hole in it, it skips the “garage clothes” step and heads straight to the “rags” category.
I don’t know what it is but no matter how nice of socks I get or how well I take care of them, they will get a hole in the big toe area within a year at the very latest. I’ve never had socks last long enough to have the elastic wear out
Also yes my nails are kept short so it’s not that
I’m here with you. Do you feel like you have exceptionally hard nails? I sure do.
I almost never wear out the toes. For me its balls of the feet holes or occasionally a heel hole. I’ll also say that my socks last a long time.
I bought a 12 new pairs of Adidas socks for a 2 week trip I took. Came home with 2 fewer socks because I put holes in the toes. It’s absolutely insane and it happens with all brands.
Really high quality brands like SmartWool last longer, but the big toe is still what fails first.
We just threw out a whole pack of adidas socks. After just a few house of wear, made both me and my wife’s feet smell like 3 day old road kill. We decided it was some shitty blend of plastics doing it.
I had to walk down an embankment to a river to wash my feet before bed on a camping trip because I didn’t want them in the tent with us.
I have that problem too with polyester socks. I may have those same adidias socks, and I primarily use them for gym/workouts. My daily driver socks are cotton in the summer and merino wool in the winter. Both of these are Costco branded and are lasting years and wearing well.
I bought some heavy duty socks, and so far the only holes they’ve gotten are from the dog. I still wear them because they’re on the top side.
Cutting my toenails shorter did the trick for me.
Ever heard of Darn Tough socks? Expensive per pair, but they come with a lifetime guarantee.
And for underwear the path is “maybe I’ll get laid” then “still no holes so I can be seen in them” and finally “I’m not going out today so I don’t care that one of my balls fell out through the hole”. And then rags.
Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks. Lifetime warranty, basically a sock club. Most definitely buy once cry once and it doesn’t matter whether you pay full price or get them on sale. They always warranty the value of the sock on what they sell for on their website. It’s so awesome. I haven’t needed to buy socks since 2017 when I filled my sock drawer.
DT is the way.
Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks.
You’re wearing a $20-$30 pair of socks to mow the lawn or change the oil in a car? I’d be worried about messing those nice socks up.
I have about 25 pair, unsure exactly. I’ve paid an average $14 per pair and it’s 100% worth it.
And yes, I wear a fresh pair for work or daily engagement and then they get set aside and used when I’m working around the house for a day or two.
The wool blend makes them never stink, it’s pretty amazing. I bought the majority in 2016 or so from a now debunked website called MassDrop. They’d buy stuff in bulk for discounts then resell them at great prices. I just checked my old emails and paid two pair for $28 and three for $41. Later I bought a few more from GoBros.com for at least 25% off. Checking my emails I got most of them from MassDrop though.
Here’s the thing, DT doesn’t care how much you paid or how you got them, they credit the full value upon return and then you shop direct from their website for value credited. When I first started I’d used the rertuns like sock club, I’d send my thick winter ones back in the spring and get thinner summer ones. I’d do the reverse in the fall. My first few years I was swapping out socks twice a year. Now I have enough I wait until the ankle is loose on a few pairs then return in bulk to replace, every 3 years or so.
You don’t need any excuse or reason to do a return that they need. You don’t need a receipt.
I’d be worried about messing those nice socks up
That’s the best part, because they’re warrantied you can abuse tf out of them.
I avoid step two by just never wearing matching socks.
I avoid it by only buying the same type of sock so all socks are matching socks. One develops a hole, it gets thrown out but goes back into the magical pool of socks
Reading this thread has taught me that when I have a girl over and she tells me that I am not a normal male, I really had no idea how much I didn’t do as a male that other men do all the time….
I wear all of my clothes until they show clear signs of being worn out and then determine whether that it should be donated or trashed. And i have one shirt then I’ll probably never throw away and it’s one that I’ve had since the 80s, my goonies shirt.
Fr, Gooning was a thing in the eighties?? /s
This is quite accurate.
The life cycle is pretty similar for pants too.
Do women not do that? Where do they get rags from?
By stealing my perfectly fine and wearable rough work clothes, claiming they are ‘unfit to wear’.
They can also be turned into crop tops
You forgot the stage after garage clothes, that would be PJs. Then it gets turned into a rag.
I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after
For me they are interchangeable. Garage clothes and PJs are often the same stage.
Man what the fuck, you live a wild life
My favorite shirt is sitting on the top shelf of my closet because I can’t bring myself to downgrade it to a rag. It has a hole on the armpit that I could fit through😂
I’ve started retiring sentimental shirts early so they don’t wear down like that. They aren’t really shirts anymore, but shirt-like objects tied to memories.
I have like a hundred shirts I got at shows in college in a vacuum sealed bag in my closet. Because one day - for sure. definitely. I am 100% going to do this. I have not been putting it off for over a decade - I’m going to turn them into throw pillows
I’m taking a different path where the holes make the clothes into fun pieces with fun patches on them (or they’re turned into patches if I didn’t really like the article of clothing to begin with).
I have a few subcategories like camping shirts and music festival shirts but otherwise it’s spot on. The same goes for pants and hoodies.
i still have tshirts i bought in my 20s. the collars of a couple of them are starting to detach but theyre still wearable
That’s make sense🤔
my best shirts and hoodies have the diablo 2 etherial tag on them
missing an important part of the lifecycle : the origin of the new clothes.
The money saved from not buying new clothes at each transitional step ends up used for buying new clothes to start the cycle again.
The final evolution is Turing the old rags into cord for the garden.
Is “you women” bothering anybody else or is it just me?
The context of a dad talking to his daughter in a private text message. Its likely used as a phrase of endearment referring to his wife and daughter. He’s not speaking to about public women he doesn’t know.
That context still bugs me. I have lesbian parents, I’d still never say to them ‘you women’.
Do you ever smile and call anyone you love and “asshole” or a “bitch” sarcastically when you are joking and happy with them when there is full respect and zero malice? Or perhaps more generally, if someone were to look into your private text messages with your parents could anything you say be taken out of context and be displayed as disrespectful?
No, I don’t even know how you could do that, and even if I did what the fuck does that have to do with pointlessly gendering people?
Since you edited yours I guess I’ll edit mine: first these text messages aren’t private that’s why we’re talking about them, second no I don’t disrespect people on purpose even privately, third what do my text messages have to do with pointlessly gendering people?
Then that’s why you don’t get it. Context is super important and there are people, a lot of people, of any gender or sexuality, that like to banter with people they are familiar with. Pointlessly gendering his daughter is the bloody point! Intentionally annoying people you are close with for kicks is fun. I’m not gonna say you aren’t fun but please let others in their private context have their kind of harmless fun too.
In the internet talking to the whole world I would agree, weird punching down. But in a close friends or healthy family environment? It’s fine.
If I were to have written such a thing I’d expect something like “yeah that’s why you men have no style, it’s all office shirts 🤮”. It’s just banter.
It’s possible to give somebody a good natured ribbing without using “women” as a pejorative term, and if you think that opinion makes me unfun then by all means go ahead and think that.
and if you think that opinion makes me unfun then by all means go ahead and think that.
Then I believe you are unfun or rather your sense of humor is limited. Alternately, I also accept that perhaps English isn’t your first language and much of humor is mixed with advance language understanding.
It’s possible to give somebody a good natured ribbing without using “women” as a pejorative term,
This feels like we’re deep into ThatstheJoke.jpg territory, but when a term that has an obvious pejorative usage exists, and it is used by a speaker you know doesn’t hold that pejorative opinion, then the joke gains another level of humor that the speaker is communicating the opinion they are stating can be considered jokingly dumb as though someone stupid that would use the term as a pejorative would hold that opinion. Its a method of communication that telegraphs the joking context to the recipient.
In this case it is extremely unlikely the Dad uses the “you women” ever as a pejorative. So the only reason he would use it is as a joke. He’s telling the daughter “hey, joke incoming using hyperbole of gender stereotypes here.”
But it says it right on the box, “ribbed for her pleasure”. Can’t argue with facts!
I’m not gonna engage in all that chain but just to say that you not getting banter isn’t something to say you are not fun, that’s explicitly why I said it idk why you are reading more into what I said. You clearly enjoy other kind of humor and that’s fine, all I said is that doing an exercise of letting others enjoy this kind of humor in their consenting private (this was a private message) time wouldn’t hurt.
I’m still surprised, you haven’t heard of hyperbole as a comedy medium?
Never heard someone say “Let me teach you insult how to do this!*” To their friends? It’s the same kinda humor.
Anyway, you seem to not want to engage with it so I’ll stop, but please even if you don’t like it please understand from afar that there’s no malice. ❤️
Sounds like they hurt you. Do you need help.
You think my parents hurt me because I won’t pointlessly refer to them by their gender? What the fuck?
Yep. You remind me of a scientologist’s kid.
What gets me with these posts is the unnecessary gendering of universal human behaviors THAT EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF GENDER DOES. Do we think moms are feeding babies in their nice work blouses? Women are doing crafts in beautiful sundresses? When I work on my car I promise I’m not doing it in my nice clothes. Life isn’t Instagram. Some people are just determined to see half the human species as not fully fleshed out people who do the exact same things they do.
