Be more inventive!
Put some sand in the toes of the hose, then whirl them around like a bolas and fling them up so they hang from the phone wires! (Call it a 'gang' sign, start a new urban myth about cross-dressing gangs!)
Keep some panty-hose for halloween, pick a partner and dress as 'siamese bank robbers'. Stuff the legs with foam packing peanuts, spray paint it blue, then wear it on your head and go as 'Oola' , the twi'lek dancer from Star Wars (The one in the scene from Jabba the Hut's palace).
Throw several pairs in the trunk of the car to use as emergency fan-belts.
Use some as filters in the kitchen. Either for coffee, wine-making, separating the crunchy bits from wild honey (collect at your own risk!) or recycling cooking oil (let it cool first!).
Grab some wire and tape and make butterfly nets!
Tape them over the air vents as 'cheap dust filters' for the heating and A/C ducts!