Three-of-a-kind beats a pair every time.
Are you always searching for that mysteriously missing sock? Did the dryer eat it again? I hate it when the washer and dryer eat my socks. We may never find that missing sock, but Edwin Heaven has come up with a solution to sock-eating dryers. One day, after losing one too many socks, it dawned on Edwin Heaven that if tires come with a spare, why not the same for socks? He therefore created “Throx,” the first socks to come in threes.
When you purchase a pair of socks from throx.com, you get two socks plus an extra one just in case the dryer monster eats one.
Reader’s Digest awarded Throx “Best Innovation of 2006.” It was also the best celebrity gift at the 79th Annual Academy Awards.
I have said it before, and I will say it again it again. What will they think of next?
Throx Inventor Edwin Heaven on CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”
Throx- Three Socks for when you loose one.
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7 responses so far ↓
Roger Green
// Feb 29, 2008 at 9:42 am
I just buy three or four pair of the same socks.
Sy
// Feb 29, 2008 at 12:05 pm
What if you have only got one leg? What do you get then? Unox?
Seamus
// Feb 29, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I’ve found that buying socks 3 pair at a time has done the same thing!
Digital Frenzy
// Feb 29, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Mom, I also hate it when my socks go walking away but it is not the dryer or washer that is takeing them it is your daughter.
LoL
invadesoda
// Mar 1, 2008 at 11:15 am
I tried to follow in my Dad’s footsteps of buying only black socks so that they were interchangeable, but I discovered there are an amazing variety of black socks out there, so I haven’t gotten it working yet.
Peter Kerr
// Mar 1, 2008 at 1:31 pm
The other answer here is to not worry about being fashion conscious.
Just grab the first 2 socks you can put them on.
Justin Decker
// Mar 1, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Genius….but if you never lose your socks, I hope you at least bought two pairs…
having a third random sock could get really annoying fast…
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