I am lucky to have many pairs of identical socks which have their sizes written on the bottom side. Nobody sees the bottom sides of my socks, but it is so easy to look there when sorting them. So they don’t get mixed with the older socks of the same color.
If in the future I don’t have the same luck, maybe I could just make some marks on the bottom sides. For example one small colored dot, using a washing-resistant color. The most work would be finding that color. But marking the already sorted socks, that would be a question of a few seconds.
That’s an excellent alternative to throwing out perfectly good socks. This is something I can immediately apply to the socks of my children, since the issue there is that they’re necessarily white-but-different-sizes (and it’s difficult for me to tell just by looking at them whether they’re ‘little’ or ‘medium-little’.)
I am lucky to have many pairs of identical socks which have their sizes written on the bottom side. Nobody sees the bottom sides of my socks, but it is so easy to look there when sorting them. So they don’t get mixed with the older socks of the same color.
If in the future I don’t have the same luck, maybe I could just make some marks on the bottom sides. For example one small colored dot, using a washing-resistant color. The most work would be finding that color. But marking the already sorted socks, that would be a question of a few seconds.
That’s an excellent alternative to throwing out perfectly good socks. This is something I can immediately apply to the socks of my children, since the issue there is that they’re necessarily white-but-different-sizes (and it’s difficult for me to tell just by looking at them whether they’re ‘little’ or ‘medium-little’.)