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Wellness Wednesday for November 16, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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What are the best socks I can buy that can withstand washing in hot water and the dryer on high heat?

Wash cold, line-dry, as the mantra goes.

Strong upvote for Darn Tough, but they are mostly available only in the US. If you're based in Europe, then I can also recommend Smart Wool.

Is it laundry heat that wrecks socks? I feel like I go through sports socks in no time flat these days, but I've always used medium to high heat on non-dress socks. I was wondering whether that's because my time sense has changed with aging (I could swear my teenager was a toddler not too long ago...) or because I've put on too much weight (it's just 10 pounds, but the holes are always on the bottoms of the socks, so that's got to be where all the tearing force is..) or because I've got some invisible foot fungus that eats through cotton like acid.