“If every day is a gift, then today was socks”

“If every day is a gift, then today was socks” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. “Socks” sounds like “sucks” and represents something commonplace and unexciting.
 
“If everyday of life is a gift all i keep getting is socks” was posted on Twitter on August 4, 2009. “To quote a great internet sage: if everyday is a gift, then today was socks” was posted on Twitter on August 13, 2010.
 
 
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Runs With Hatchet‏
@theanghellicone
If everyday of life is a gift all i keep getting is socks
6:13 PM - 4 Aug 2009  
     
Twitter
Aaron Vowels 🌹‏
@Guinness74
Every day is a gift.  It’s just that sometimes that gift is socks or underwear!
7:44 AM - 7 Oct 2009
 
Twitter
gg‏
@damnG1NA
if every day is a gift, today was socks. tomorrow will be socks. the next day will be socks.
9:11 PM - 11 Oct 2009
 
Twitter
Carl Michel‏
@cdmichel
Replying to @ulisesd3
@ulisesd3 every day is a gift…today the gift was socks.
5:52 PM - 20 Oct 2009
 
Twitter
Wade Wilson‏
@wade_wilson
To quote a great internet sage: if everyday is a gift, then today was socks.
9:19 AM - 13 Aug 2010
 
Twitter
Stephen‏
@thatfunnyjew
If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
9:06 PM - 14 Oct 2010
 
Twitter
Miss Amanda‏
@missamanda
So true. RT @thatfunnyjew: If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
9:25 PM - 14 Oct 2010
 
Twitter
Luke McCarthy‏
@lukemc_va
If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
11:46 PM - 14 Oct 2010
 
Google Books’
Police, Lies and Alibis:
The True Story of a Front Line Officer
By John Donoghue
Leicestershire, UK: Matador
2013
Pg. 61:
If ‘every day is a gift’, as the desk calendar said, today was socks, and sock day had started on a low, and had gone steadily downhill.
 
Funny Status
If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
September 1, 2014 Misc. Status Updates
If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
 
Twitter
Men’s Humor‏
@MensHumor
If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
9:00 PM - 2 Sep 2014
 
Twitter
Bill Murray‏
@BiIIMurray
If everyday is a gift then today was socks.
1:13 PM - 12 May 2015
 
Facebook
The Inappropriate Homeschooler
June 30, 2015 ·
If every day is a gift then today was socks.
 
Me.Me
IF EVERYDAY IS A GIFT THEN TODAY WAS SOCKS JK MEME
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Melrose (MA) Mirror
April 7, 2017
More thoughts and sayings that I’ve saved
... I’ve saved these in the strangest places and old notebooks. Hope you enjoy
them as much as I have.
by Betty Rossi
(...)
If every day is a gift, then today was socks.