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Throx - Socks with a Spare

by Steve
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Throx socksThrox is a company that sells socks, claiming to have solved the problem of the missing sock: by selling three socks instead of two.

This reminds of the time when I bought ten fingernail clippers at the drug store, and spread them all over the house, because I was tired of not being able to find one when I needed it.

Visit Throx online...
http://www.throx.com

12 Comments:

  • > I bought ten fingernail clippers at the drug store,
    > and spread them all over the house,

    Wow, I thought I was the only one who'd done that... small world. :)

    By Blogger Dan, at 11/28/2007 05:18:00 PM  

  • Little Miss Matched (dot com) has been doing the same thing for a year or more. The only difference is they are tastefully mismatched.

    By Blogger QueenKatofTypos, at 11/28/2007 06:39:00 PM  

  • I always drive multiple cars when I go shopping, since I frequently forget where I parked...

    By Blogger mmlowe, at 11/28/2007 08:43:00 PM  

  • I make sure to have the nail clippers in all the cars too.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/30/2007 03:51:00 PM  

  • Oh my god, the nail clipper thing is brilliant! I am ALWAYS having to buy new nail clippers because I keep being unable to find all the ones I've bought previously.

    By Blogger Meredith, at 12/01/2007 09:04:00 AM  

  • Sol Mate Socks (www.socklady.com) has been doing mis-matched socks and socks sold as a "pair with a spare" for ten years now. Theirs are way cuter and cheerier though.

    By Anonymous Sock Fanatic, at 12/03/2007 10:01:00 PM  

  • Thanks (in triplicate), Steve, for plugging my invention Throx. Throx (and I) appeared this week on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and I'll probably get around to posting it on YouTube sometime next week. It'll give you a giggle ... or three.

    By Anonymous Heaven, at 12/07/2007 08:59:00 PM  

  • Brilliant!... I do the same thing with lint rollers, there's one in every room :-)

    By Blogger TJ, at 12/29/2007 07:40:00 PM  

  • I commonly buy tons of chapstick tubes and hair things and then I don't have to worry that I can't find the damned things! Yeah!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/13/2008 11:43:00 PM  

  • LOL, yea my mom always makes me by two pairs of identical earings, if the earings i like dont have an identical pair available too bad for me.

    By Anonymous skippingkid, at 4/27/2008 11:44:00 PM  

  • I actually met the creator of throx in line at 2:30 a.m. getting pizza while drunk. It was...entertaining.

    By Blogger Susannah, at 7/21/2008 02:10:00 PM  

  • That just might be the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. I'm always managing to lose my left sock. Now I have a backup.

    By Anonymous Bar hopping made easy, at 7/23/2008 04:42:00 PM  

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