A woman’s creativity with a pair of her boyfriend’s socks has taken the internet by storm.
In an adorable TikTok video, she turned an ordinary pair of black socks left behind by her boyfriend into a handmade sock monkey—and her gesture of love and creativity that has captured the attention of millions. The video, which has accumulated nearly 800,000 likes and almost 5 million views, showcases her step-by-step process of transforming the socks into a plush creation, complete with buttons for eyes.
“[Boyfriend] left his socks at my house, so I made them into a sock monkey,” she captioned the video. “Took me almost two hours, but I love him, he’s so cute.”
She clarified in the comments that she used stuffing from another plush item to fill the sock monkey, which ended up as a small black and gray creation with white buttons for eyes.
The video has sparked a wave of reactions from viewers, many of whom were struck by the creative nature of the gift. Others, though, were concerned about the lack of permission on his end to transform his socks into something else.
“‘Baby, do you have my lucky socks?,'” one person wrote, hinting at her boyfriend’s possible reaction.
But many were quick to point out that socks are generally a low-stakes item to manipulate: “If they were my ‘lucky socks’ before, they’d be my lucky sock monkey now,” one commenter wrote. “I don’t care what these tough guys are saying, i would cherish this moment.”
Interestingly, many viewers were introduced to sock monkeys for the first time through this video, with several commenting that they had never realized sock monkeys are actually made from socks.
“I had no idea sock monkeys were made from socks,” one person wrote, while another added, “Y’all just taught me what a sock monkey is and I feel smarter now.”
In another video, the creator revealed that the kind of love she shares through gift-giving goes both ways. She shared a touching gesture from her boyfriend, who curated an entire wall in his room filled with love letters she had written to him. He even made a poster of her using various photos of her, in a way creating his own do-it-yourself totem of appreciation for their relationship.
Gift-giving—whether it’s turning a pair of socks into a sock monkey or curating a love letter wall—seems to serve as a powerful tool for emotional connection for this couple. As one commenter put it: “These tough guys have no idea what they’re missing out on—this is real love.”
Newsweek reached out to @solecita1738 for comment via TikTok.
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