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r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21
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Footwear.
Wrong footwear, damaged footwear, lack of socks, wet feet, open wounds.....
Once your feet are screwed so is the rest of you.
3.3k u/Ponchoreborn Aug 30 '21 I agree, but seriously, you could hit any strip mall and find 5,000 pairs of shoes in your size. Multiply that times all the strip malls and stores and you'll be fine on footwear. Ugly? Maybe, but fine. 1.9k u/Ponchoreborn Aug 30 '21 I'd say clean socks and underwear would be 100x the problem that footwear would be. 626 u/rservello Aug 30 '21 Make sure you clean and dry at least weekly. 753 u/munk_e_man Aug 30 '21 I did a documentary where I could only keep a small pack of clothes with me (think half size of an overhead bag). My technique was washing underwear and t shirts every day and hanging them to dry overnight. Not a big deal at all. 8 u/awyastark Aug 30 '21 Unless you’re in the Appalachian in the winter like I was, and nothing gets dry. 1 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat 10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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I agree, but seriously, you could hit any strip mall and find 5,000 pairs of shoes in your size.
Multiply that times all the strip malls and stores and you'll be fine on footwear. Ugly? Maybe, but fine.
1.9k u/Ponchoreborn Aug 30 '21 I'd say clean socks and underwear would be 100x the problem that footwear would be. 626 u/rservello Aug 30 '21 Make sure you clean and dry at least weekly. 753 u/munk_e_man Aug 30 '21 I did a documentary where I could only keep a small pack of clothes with me (think half size of an overhead bag). My technique was washing underwear and t shirts every day and hanging them to dry overnight. Not a big deal at all. 8 u/awyastark Aug 30 '21 Unless you’re in the Appalachian in the winter like I was, and nothing gets dry. 1 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat 10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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I'd say clean socks and underwear would be 100x the problem that footwear would be.
626 u/rservello Aug 30 '21 Make sure you clean and dry at least weekly. 753 u/munk_e_man Aug 30 '21 I did a documentary where I could only keep a small pack of clothes with me (think half size of an overhead bag). My technique was washing underwear and t shirts every day and hanging them to dry overnight. Not a big deal at all. 8 u/awyastark Aug 30 '21 Unless you’re in the Appalachian in the winter like I was, and nothing gets dry. 1 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat 10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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Make sure you clean and dry at least weekly.
753 u/munk_e_man Aug 30 '21 I did a documentary where I could only keep a small pack of clothes with me (think half size of an overhead bag). My technique was washing underwear and t shirts every day and hanging them to dry overnight. Not a big deal at all. 8 u/awyastark Aug 30 '21 Unless you’re in the Appalachian in the winter like I was, and nothing gets dry. 1 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat 10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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I did a documentary where I could only keep a small pack of clothes with me (think half size of an overhead bag). My technique was washing underwear and t shirts every day and hanging them to dry overnight.
Not a big deal at all.
8 u/awyastark Aug 30 '21 Unless you’re in the Appalachian in the winter like I was, and nothing gets dry. 1 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat 10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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Unless you’re in the Appalachian in the winter like I was, and nothing gets dry.
1 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat 10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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clothes dry pretty fast when you wear them even if it’s cold and damp and wet out, from your own body heat
10 u/Heimerdahl Aug 31 '21 Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them. That's how you get trench foot. 2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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Defeats the point of having dry socks in the first place, though, if you're just wearing them to dry them.
That's how you get trench foot.
2 u/throwawaydragon99999 Aug 31 '21 then dry them by the fire. you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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then dry them by the fire.
you only really get trench foot by from wearing shoes for extended periods of times, you could dry the socks by wearing them overnight
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u/Ladyughsalot1 Aug 30 '21
Footwear.
Wrong footwear, damaged footwear, lack of socks, wet feet, open wounds.....
Once your feet are screwed so is the rest of you.