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Offline AgnesNitt

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Soaker Poll
« on: October 11, 2015, 05:27:39 PM »
You're going to have to type your answers in bec. our poll only lets you pick one from a list.

1. Single soaker per blade or double soaker?
2. Plain color or pattern?
3. Company made or homemade?
4. Puffy vs terry?
5. Theme?
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2015, 05:56:42 PM »
1. Single soaker
2. A manly plain blue color
3. Store-bought
4. Terry
5. Theme? Corporate button-down?
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2015, 06:10:33 PM »
Singles
Plain red
Homemade
Terry
Theme:  A motif suggesting old cheap facecloth, stitched together in a hurry.

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2015, 06:59:50 PM »
Double layer: Tuff terry on the bottom, and a puffy on top
The Tuff terry is what I have laying around. The puffy is pretty.
Terry is corportate. The puffy is from ETSY
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2015, 07:08:27 PM »
Double layer
Cat stripe pattern
Store bought
Puffy
I love animals?

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2015, 07:36:02 PM »
Single.
Pattern.
Company.
Terry.
Tie dye.

They are at least 10 years old with giant holes in both ends. I have a nice cotton terry towel on my sewing chair set to make a new set. All I have to do is sit down and actually take a half-hour and sew the danged thing.
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2015, 07:55:43 PM »
Single
Pattern
Homemade
Terry
Snoopy and Woodstock

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2015, 08:09:35 PM »
1. Single
2. Plain - light purple
3. Company made
4. Terry?
5. Nope
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2015, 08:12:21 PM »
1. Single
2. Plain - light purple
3. Company made
4. Terry?
5. Nope

Okay, my predjudice here. TUFF Terry's are the only ones that last. I've tried other brands, but man they die quick and I never remember the brand.
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2015, 08:35:44 PM »
1.  Single
2.  Plain – Red and black
3.  Company-made
4.  Terry
5.  My high school's theme colors?

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2015, 08:40:23 PM »
Single
Pattern
Store-bought
Terry
Tie dye/tougher black material on the bottom

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2015, 10:58:00 PM »
Single
Plain pink
Company made
Terry
It's all about pink  :love:

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2015, 12:07:40 AM »
Single
Green terry and a black fabric with a pattern of tiny frogs
Home made-by my mom
Terrycloth
Same soakers I've had for 20 years. Mom made em as a Christmas  gift. Maybe I'll convince her to make me a new set once my new skates are here. :)

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2015, 06:49:42 AM »
Single
Pattern - it has gold, silver and bronze medals on the fabric
Homemade by an adult skater friend
Terry cloth
See #2 - it inspires me to skate well and medal
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2015, 06:52:26 AM »
1. Single soaker
2. Maroon
3. Store bought
4. Terry cloth
5. No theme

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2015, 11:03:21 AM »
1. Single soaker
2. Black
3. Homemade
4. Bamboo terry on the inside, faux fur on the outside (I had just enough left over  :))
5. no

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2015, 11:15:37 AM »
1. Single soaker
2. Blue
3. Bought
4. Terry (possibly Tuff Terry but I really don't remember)
5. Theme-less

Had skull and cross bone soakers that I loved but they did not last very long:(

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2015, 01:19:39 PM »
Single soaker
Blue
Bought
No clue-I thought I was ordering terry but it's super fluffy
The first time I saw these (I ordered late at night and clearly wasn't paying enough attention) I thought "Yikes-I now have cookie monster soakers"  but they haven't developed holes.  I think I have had them for 3 years or so.

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2015, 03:23:04 PM »
1. Single
2. Plain
3. Company made
4. Terry
5. Matches my towel, both kelly green

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2015, 06:37:36 PM »
1. Single soaker
2. Plain color
3. Company made
4. terrycloth
5. no theme

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2015, 08:29:06 PM »
Single
Spotty (white / blue)
Company made
Terry
Spots

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2015, 08:36:20 PM »
Impossible for me to answer the poll question because I don't use soakers. I dry the blades with a terry cloth and don't put guards on the blades until they reach room temperature to prevent condensation from forming.

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2015, 08:52:59 PM »
Single
Patterned
Store bought
Puffy
Girly

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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2015, 04:15:56 AM »
1. Single soaker
2. Pattern
3. Company made
4. Puffy (but I also keep my old pair of plain blue terry ones in my skate bag for when I hand my boots over to coach for sharpenings)
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Re: Soaker Poll
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2015, 09:02:44 PM »
1. Single soaker per blade
2. Plain color (light lavender)
3. Company made
4. Terry
5. None

I used to have turquoise ones but needed to replace my old ones and light lavender was all the skate shop had that I liked in my price range.

Homemade ones sound lovely though.
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