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My dad had two favorite expressions: “He who shoots first lives longest” and “The first one up is the one best dressed.” We were a large family, and all the kids' socks were pooled, so if you got up late, you might not even get matching socks. I guess that's where my sock psychosis came from. I just love brand new socks. It's such a thrill breaking them out of the package, when they're soft and tight-fitting and they've never been inside a dirty old shoe. The first wash wrecks them. That's why I always set aside new socks for special occasions, such as traveling or a fancy dinner.

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worthy of the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, a pipe or two, [and] enough to eat and enough to wear . . .”

—Jerome K. Jerome