I keep a bucket of holey socks in our laundry room. We occasionally find uses for them as dusters and oil rags mostly, but our newest use is as a car washing mit for the kids. They love to help and a sock mit is something they can handle and use easily.
Elliot thinks it’s the coolest thing ever.
I found some great projects using old socks. Here they be:
- Sock vases
- Camera sleeve
- Sock frog
- Sock bunnies
- Sock dinosaur
- Sock caterpillar
- Sock creatures
- Sock animals
- Sock wreath
- Sock gloves
- Sock fish
That oughtta keep your sock stash busy for a while…what’s your favorite use for singletons or holeys???


Kelsey, you are brilliant.
Too cute!
I hate matching socks and have no problem wearing miss matched ones. But this is a great idea for my kids. They love to help wash the car with my hubs and this will keep my dish towels safe.
Smart, smart idea. So that’s what I can do when one sock in the pair gets a hole, but the other one is okay!