What are your habits WRT foam earplugs?

[Blackout]

I found these a couple years ago. Unlike the foam ones you gotta roll these fit perfectly every time.
Howard Leight makes em. Available at the earplugstore.com

[He Man]

  My work has jugs upon jugs of the cheap, yellow, peg shaped ear plugs, and encourage everyone to take as many as needed.

  The ear plugs seal perfectly in my left ear, but pop out after five minutes in my right ear. I have learned to put a piece of blue tape over the right ear plug and squish it in tight. So far this has been working out great.     

sounds like you should just change earplugs. i have the same issue with generic plugs. it always falls out the left one.

[HalvorV]

Or you could try a set of these:
http://www.starkey.com/products/hearing-protection
100% fit and filters to suit your needs.

[WhiteStripe]

I am working my way through a variety pack as well.  I like the Moldex plugs the best.  they compress easily and expand quickly and firmly without too much pressure.

I find that as they lose compression the NR is much less.  I try not to use more than a couple days.  THink about the cost of a ride (gas, insurance, service, depreciation), you can afford the $0.25 cents...

http://www.earplugstore.com/foam_industrial_plugs.htm

[seevtsaab]

I am working my way through a variety pack as well.  I like the Moldex plugs the best.  they compress easily and expand quickly and firmly without too much pressure.

I find that as they lose compression the NR is much less.  I try not to use more than a couple days.  THink about the cost of a ride (gas, insurance, service, depreciation), you can afford the $0.25 cents...

http://www.earplugstore.com/foam_industrial_plugs.htm

So far I've found a few that last Orange flaired (Moldex?) that I cleaned ala Yuu, still compress and expand nicely. Some clearly are smaller and less NRR in the (my) ear than others.
3 varieties of flared I like so far (one EAR set went thru wash are done) - EAR, Orange, and Green
(I'll check ymy sheet).

[NoisyDante]

I just experienced leaving my foam plugs in my pants pocket and washing them by accident.  They came out looking like new, I let them dry and I didn't tell a difference in comfortability or performance.  Yes they're cheap to buy a ton, but this method did indeed seemingly work.

[leungevity]

i've tried a number of plugs for shooting and the only ones i have found that fit my ear good and offered good noise reduction were the Flents Quiet! Please ear plugs.  NRR 29

they are PVC foam and you roll them between your fingers and insert them into your ear, in a second or so, they expand and make a very good seal as well as stay comfortable.  They're comfortable enough that i've slept with them for 8-9 hours and when i took them out, my ears weren't sore.

i have tried the christmas tree type and couldn't get them to stay in my ears and if i pushed them into too far, they made my ear hurt.  As soon as they accidentally made contact with the stock on my rifle, it would dislodge a bit and i'd have to stop shooting and move away from the range to fix them.

there was one other kind that i tried that fit great, they were orange, probably made of latex and shaped a bit like a goldfish cracker, but hollow in the middle except for a post.  they fit in my ears perfectly, but didn't offer much in the way of noise reduction.

http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/flenquietple3.html

[CTKurt]

I usually loose mine before they get that disgusting.

+1 I have washed them in the sink before as well.

[duc_fan]

I buy halfway decent foam plugs by Howard Leight... usually in the gun supplies section of the sporting goods store.  I just buy a bunch at a time.  Use a pair for several weeks (depends on how often I'm riding), then toss 'em when they look nasty.  I have plenty of things that cost money to worry about... foam earplugs aren't one of them.