My life has improved immeasurably...

My life has improved immeasurably since I threw out all my socks and went to a mega Tesco to buy 30 pairs of identical black socks. All that time I wasted pairing up socks now recaptured. How do you simplify your life?

[Dorsetcharlie]

Brilliant life-hack. Made me giggle, so thank you!

[Hidden]

Stroke of genius .... local Tesco here I come!

[spartan300]

easier still just wear odd socks nobody will notice and if they do and say something just say its the latest fashion save the planet recycle everything mix and not match.

[Kirk5w7]

I buy black socks for my son and grey ones for my husband, no more" these aren't mine", but I buy from primark, even cheaper.xx

[Stardrop]

We need a good idea's page to keep all these suggestions on. Regarding odd socks I wore 2 different shoes to Headway one week and no one noticed (or were too kind to say) one was my daughter's shoe and a size larger. My suggestion for making life easier is buying a bag of frozen chopped onions in Iceland. No more doing battle with an uncooperative right hand, a sharp knife and a round object. No half an onion dying in the back of the fridge.

[Kirk5w7 in reply to Stardrop]

Like this one, sick of smelly hands after preparing onions, I buy all sorts ofpreprepared vegetables now, life's too difficult as it is, to spend all that time preparing, I've earned the

[Kirk5w7 in reply to Kirk5w7]

Luxury of this over the years, wish I'd woken up to it earlier. Sorry this reply is in two halves, caught the reply button with my finger!!!!

[iforget]

If I wear an unmatched pair I simply tell people I have another pair just like them at home...

[sospan]

Many years ago my wife used to fume about the effort required to hunt down and then pair my socks and also the huge bag of "odd" socks with no partner.

All was calm until most blokes I got the message wrong over the shirts She had a major rant about the washing the family create especially my office shirts and how "did I know how tedious it was ironing white shirt after white week in week out". When I bought a load of different coloured shirts to break up the monotony somehow she didn't appreciate it - no pleasing some people

[Kirk5w7 in reply to sospan]

My husband irons his own shirts and always has, I don't take enough care !!! He used to do his own ironing before we got together so just continued, great, he's even taught my son, from my previous marriage, and is about to do the same for our son before he goes off to Uni.

Wonderful

[Flumptious]

That's a great idea, *if* they are identical. My lovely husband has loads and loads of pairs of navy-blue socks, which are *almost* identical, but not quite. They drive me mad! I always go for coloured splashes on mine, so I know which sock pairs with which.

[Hidden in reply to Flumptious]

Chuck them out! Buy 30 identical pairs. Madness will disappear.