In this case, they might be found inexpensively on Ebay.
I know exactly what shoes I like to wear to work, and I buy a couple pairs on Ebay whenever one of the colors (brown, blue, black) wears out. It’s up to you, if you’re willing to wear used shoes (you can also buy them new) but the pair I’m wearing look brand new and cost 1/20th the department store price.
I also buy identical pairs of socks in bulk. When they did stop selling the brand I liked, I got rid of all the old type knowing how much trouble it is to match different brands of the same colored socks.
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’.)
In this case, they might be found inexpensively on Ebay.
I know exactly what shoes I like to wear to work, and I buy a couple pairs on Ebay whenever one of the colors (brown, blue, black) wears out. It’s up to you, if you’re willing to wear used shoes (you can also buy them new) but the pair I’m wearing look brand new and cost 1/20th the department store price.
I also buy identical pairs of socks in bulk. When they did stop selling the brand I liked, I got rid of all the old type knowing how much trouble it is to match different brands of the same colored socks.
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’.)