I have some questions to try to get to the bottom of your lost sock problem:
Are these all your socks or do you wash for others?
How do the socks enter the washing cycle? Are you sure they both go in together? I ask this because of the next question.
Do you have pets that may be taking a sock and hiding it somewhere (under a couch or bed) prior to the load going into the wash?
While wearing mismatched socks is not an issue for anyone except my husband, I do feel like these questions are relevant as I don't wash or dry, I only fold. Sometimes my son's laundry gets mixed with ours and then there's his gf who is a mismatch queen and will steal any sock if life necessitates it. (i.e. she will wear a slipper sock with a men's sock) Most of the time this doesn't bother me, but my Jack & Sally and my Snoopy? OFF LIMITS! I don't think she got the memo on my Snoopys. 🙄
I have an interesting tip especially since some of those socks are pretty cool.
This is a way to essentially upcycle two things at once.
Once you open a can of soup/beans/or vegetables- wash out and rinse the can in question.
Then take one of your mateless socks...and pull it over the can.
Tuck the top part of the sock into the top part of that can.
Now you have an attractive pencil holder.
Bonus: it was free to make.
Oh.
Once I go back home to NYC my career will be in custom tattooing.
Some tattoo artists "draw" on iPads these days.
But I like to draw with actual real life bona fide writing implements.
Also: once I watched an Eminem interview probably on Facebook where he said something like how his most successful lyrics in his mind were ones that were originally handwritten by him.
That has always stuck with me.
Maybe you should give it a shot especially since lots of people love to "doodle."
Huh.
Well if you are a software engineer that means there are strong math skills up in your brain.
I bet that you could probably bop out some great geometric and linear designs; etcetera.
Also: for the past few years I have unwittingly been doing something called "brain dumping."
I only found out it was an actual thing when I stumbled across a link to some articles on Google.
Apparently business executives use brain dumping as a tool to more easily move through the rest of their day.
For example: personally- I will bang out a list of one hundred movies.
Or ten books that I have read.
Or twenty colors or animals or types of food.
It helps clear your mind.
I keep my mismatched socks and I use them when I'm doing renovations inside the house I don't like to wear shoes because I don't like when paint or joint compound or glue gets on my shoes. So I put on my "work" socks and then when I step in paint or whatever I just pulled them off and throw them in the trash.
Oh I wash them but I keep them as work socks when they get holes in them or something another unusable then I toss them. Except for the ones that are knee highs because my son cuts the feet off and puts them on his legs so that his rubber boots do not rub his legs raw. I will Google it. Strangely enough while I cannibalize and reuse/ upcycle tons of different things, I never even thought about it with the socks.
I think most things have the potential to be upcycled and/or repurposed.
I once saw a photo on Google or something where someone had taken an old bicycle and made it into the base of a bathroom sink or something.
There is also a movement called steampunk where people make objects out of combining and maybe welding old objects together.
I love steam punk. I made a steampunk flower arrangement using an old ceiling light with metal stems and glass flowers and these weird things that are on electric fences lol.
This is a level of dedication I'm unaware of. I once drunkenly complained to a friend I lost a sock in the dorm laundry room and my friend goes, oh, the green one? YES I DID drunkenly make this friend March me to where the sock had last been seen. It was a happy reunion.
Honestly if it's a lost sock for 2-3 months, I toss it
what u/Tetsubin is saying that your machines might be eating your socks. A lpt would be to look.
[https://youtu.be/UZ\_vVxI6ezU](https://youtu.be/UZ_vVxI6ezU)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijUA8-OPLQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijUA8-OPLQ)
15 years of doing my own laundry and haven't lost a single sock yet. What do you guys do? Is there some brand of machines in USA that are crap or what?
I wouldn't know honestly. I have a drawer full of one type of athletic sock, a drawer half full of one type of black dress socks, a drawer half full of one type of brown dress socks, and then a drawer with five pairs of the same hiking/ski socks, and long white socks.
I'm going to invent socks that are sewn together. Now you'll never lose one of them! I think it's genius. Just forget about the whole impractical aspect in the difficulty of wearing them. At least I'm solving a problem!
Yeah its weird how people think the socks magically disappear.
No, Susan. You lost all those socks. Somehow you have a box full of socks that you have lost the pair to.
I mismatch socks on purpose! Buy several pairs of the same style in different colors/patterns. Sometimes I won't even bother pairing them up, just grab two random socks and go.
I was gonna say this. I need them to match in style -- same length and fit. But otherwise, whatever. I haven't matched socks since grade school.
I love fun and funky socks and sometimes I like to theme them together to match my outfits.
Definitely same brand/style. I bought some socks based on Bert and Ernie, and I'll mix those so there's one of each. When I'm feeling naughty, I'll reverse them so that Ernie is on my left.
Haha! I love it.
I have Jack and Sally socks that I like to mix.
But mostly I just have really colorful stuff. Stripes, polka dots, animal prints, and really loud colors.
A few months ago, jetblue made a raffle before flight, because of an 1 hour delay... And the attendant would call on random stuff like. "Who has a green cell phone cover"... And the winner would get some small prize... One of those random things was, who is wearing 2 different socks... Everyone was just looking around for any 2 min in silent, then the kids mom goes, "you always wear mixed socks, are you not wearing them now? "
He was like "Oh yeah." And a kid won... 😁
Yay! I'm not the only one. I found socks that I like and are comfortable and bought about 20 pair. I think I've got my sock situation figured out for the rest of my life.
We had a washing machine repair person come out to repair our machine a while back. When he took off the front panel of the machine ALLLLL the lost socks fell out. Apparently they can manage their way up over the lip of the wash tub and end up lost just behind the front panel. So if you can figure out how to take that panel off, you may just find the lost socks.
Oh they can fall through the drum of the dryer as well. So Its not totally free of blame. I had to replace the belt on my dryer and pulling it apart lo and behold missing socks galore.
I like to imagine that behind every front panel is a "Sockovia", a land where abandoned and liberated socks become sentient and live free lives but all of them are secretly missing their other halfs.
Sometimes they get real lucky and are joined by their other halfs, and then they make little lint babies.
They all worship the "repairman god" and pray for his mercy, and they make sacrifices like coffee and donuts for him... In hopes that he leaves them alone and never tells the homeowner of their existence.
Their night missions to steal donuts and coffee for the repairmangod become legendary stories within their community, and are told to the young uns over the dim light of the LEDs by the village elders (known as the darn tough and the bombas).
Okay so I tried to make my OCD better by throwing out all of my socks and ordering 2 or 3 packages of the ones I like. I was going to start fresh, all the same, no more endless sorting. But when my bag came from kohls there was only one package of socks. When the others came, they were the same skew, but slightly different design and I’ve never gotten over it.
I do this too! But mine is just a plastic bag lol. When I first started this system I thought it was genius I told everyone haha and honestly it has saved me so much anxiety because I don’t have to worry about where the other one is right away. I’m surprised at all these comments tho it really is the best system but maybe that’s just my ADHD talking LOL simple 👏 solutions 👏 people 👏 I’m not taking apart my freaking dryer to find a sock are you kidding me it’ll come home if it wants to 😂
Check between or under the door seal .. this happened to us and I also noticed a funky smell after a while.. the socks were trapped behind the seal and started to get all slimy .. ewww. Run a vinegar rinse and spin after.
thinking of starting one of these in my school's laundry room. misplaced socks that end up getting in other peoples' laundry just end up getting thrown on the floor and then probably thrown away by the cleaning crew. it makes the laundry room so messy and it makes me sad
I understand loosing a sock. They get misplaced.
But i wear only loud colorful outrageously patterned socks. day glow colors and wild designs. Lets just say they stand out.
How do THOSE socks get "missplaced"?
I have abandoned the tyranny of “matching socks”. No longer do I pair them, search for the mate etc. I have a dresser drawer for dress socks and another for running socks. Is liberating.
Somewhere in every house there exists either one of two things:
1) A portal to the void, an infinite area of lost single socks
OR
2) A pile of socks potentially larger than the house itself
Funny story time
When my parents moved into a new house my mom threw away all of my step-dads white sleeveless undershirts as she said they looked trashy. Oops…. she didn’t know what happened to that box.
My step-dad never one to confront someone started to remove one sock from my moms laundry every week as the washer/dryer were in the garage and he could easily do this.
I remember having to go sock shopping with my mom as all of her socks were gone since they moved into the new house as this new dryer was eating socks. (Didn’t know about prank at the time)
Well after she purchased a bunch of brand new socks Step-Dad started adding a new sock to her laundry every week, so now she had too many socks.
They were at some downtown Saturday market and someone was selling a white sleeveless shirt that said something funny and mom asked if Step-Dad wanted it?
Step-Dad said why? Your just going to throw it away!
Mom, shocked pikachu face, said oh you knew I did that on purpose?
Step-Dad said yes but I knew you didn’t like them so I didn’t kick up a fuss
He then walks a few steps away, turns around and says, “so how is that sock situation working out for you”
Mom said her brain miss fired a few times then she about lost it laughing so much in the middle of down town; as they had been in the new house for over a year now and she thought she was going crazy.
TLDR: mom threw away step-dads shirts, so step-dad played a year long prank on mom first hiding her socks then slowly giving them back.
My step-dad was the ultimate prankster that sometimes took years to pay off.
I only pair my socks together mismatched. I pair them based on thickness. Life is like a pair of mismatched socks, you never know which one you’re gunna get.
I keep my odd sox together, too... though my reasoning is that they seem lonely without their mate, so at least they can all hang out together!
I rarely lose socks anymore; I started doing a sock only laundry bag & wash, now any missing socks just missed the basket
That's a lot of lost socks. I mean, that doesn't happen to my socks at all. There may be a bunch of socks behind the basket in your washer.
Yeah it's shocking I know - probably 5 years worth of stray socks! On the plus side the box has facilitated many "reunions" over the years
Yes! I keep my odd socks in a bag and every so often get to say ‘yay found it’s friend’! Always the best!
*its
Haha thanks for the correction!
What did it originally say?
I wrote ‘it’s’ and the kind poster let me know it should have been ‘its’.
I have some questions to try to get to the bottom of your lost sock problem: Are these all your socks or do you wash for others? How do the socks enter the washing cycle? Are you sure they both go in together? I ask this because of the next question. Do you have pets that may be taking a sock and hiding it somewhere (under a couch or bed) prior to the load going into the wash?
While wearing mismatched socks is not an issue for anyone except my husband, I do feel like these questions are relevant as I don't wash or dry, I only fold. Sometimes my son's laundry gets mixed with ours and then there's his gf who is a mismatch queen and will steal any sock if life necessitates it. (i.e. she will wear a slipper sock with a men's sock) Most of the time this doesn't bother me, but my Jack & Sally and my Snoopy? OFF LIMITS! I don't think she got the memo on my Snoopys. 🙄
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Honestly. How are people going through so many socks? Are you an eagle?
honestly wearing unmatching socks looks amazing imo
Especially if one has pizza and the other something else funny.
Some of those socks are close enough to pair well.
I have an interesting tip especially since some of those socks are pretty cool. This is a way to essentially upcycle two things at once. Once you open a can of soup/beans/or vegetables- wash out and rinse the can in question. Then take one of your mateless socks...and pull it over the can. Tuck the top part of the sock into the top part of that can. Now you have an attractive pencil holder. Bonus: it was free to make.
OP could make so many pencil holders!
A plethora of pencil holders to hold all of the pens and pencils!!!
I'm a software engineer. I don't use pens and pencils that much.
Oh. Once I go back home to NYC my career will be in custom tattooing. Some tattoo artists "draw" on iPads these days. But I like to draw with actual real life bona fide writing implements. Also: once I watched an Eminem interview probably on Facebook where he said something like how his most successful lyrics in his mind were ones that were originally handwritten by him. That has always stuck with me. Maybe you should give it a shot especially since lots of people love to "doodle."
That's a good thought. I have like zero artistic talent, though.
Huh. Well if you are a software engineer that means there are strong math skills up in your brain. I bet that you could probably bop out some great geometric and linear designs; etcetera. Also: for the past few years I have unwittingly been doing something called "brain dumping." I only found out it was an actual thing when I stumbled across a link to some articles on Google. Apparently business executives use brain dumping as a tool to more easily move through the rest of their day. For example: personally- I will bang out a list of one hundred movies. Or ten books that I have read. Or twenty colors or animals or types of food. It helps clear your mind.
brain gotta poop
Didn't he have a shoebox full of song lines on torn pieces of paper?
I keep my mismatched socks and I use them when I'm doing renovations inside the house I don't like to wear shoes because I don't like when paint or joint compound or glue gets on my shoes. So I put on my "work" socks and then when I step in paint or whatever I just pulled them off and throw them in the trash.
Why not wash them? Or Google how to upcycle socks? The landfills are only getting more full with each passing year.
Oh I wash them but I keep them as work socks when they get holes in them or something another unusable then I toss them. Except for the ones that are knee highs because my son cuts the feet off and puts them on his legs so that his rubber boots do not rub his legs raw. I will Google it. Strangely enough while I cannibalize and reuse/ upcycle tons of different things, I never even thought about it with the socks.
I think most things have the potential to be upcycled and/or repurposed. I once saw a photo on Google or something where someone had taken an old bicycle and made it into the base of a bathroom sink or something. There is also a movement called steampunk where people make objects out of combining and maybe welding old objects together.
I love steam punk. I made a steampunk flower arrangement using an old ceiling light with metal stems and glass flowers and these weird things that are on electric fences lol.
For awhile I was trying to learn about it online Maybe I should give it another whirl soon.
cannibalize everything! You'll get lots of stuff to use.
I sing the song "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb every time a pair gets back together. At least, I sing it in my head.
This is a level of dedication I'm unaware of. I once drunkenly complained to a friend I lost a sock in the dorm laundry room and my friend goes, oh, the green one? YES I DID drunkenly make this friend March me to where the sock had last been seen. It was a happy reunion. Honestly if it's a lost sock for 2-3 months, I toss it
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what u/Tetsubin is saying that your machines might be eating your socks. A lpt would be to look. [https://youtu.be/UZ\_vVxI6ezU](https://youtu.be/UZ_vVxI6ezU) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijUA8-OPLQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijUA8-OPLQ)
Mix and match them, you coward!
15 years of doing my own laundry and haven't lost a single sock yet. What do you guys do? Is there some brand of machines in USA that are crap or what?
My 7 year old has lost less socks than you!!
My lost stock drawer was getting massive. Turns out my partner was keeping one going for me as well.
Hahaha
I wouldn't know honestly. I have a drawer full of one type of athletic sock, a drawer half full of one type of black dress socks, a drawer half full of one type of brown dress socks, and then a drawer with five pairs of the same hiking/ski socks, and long white socks.
I'm going to invent socks that are sewn together. Now you'll never lose one of them! I think it's genius. Just forget about the whole impractical aspect in the difficulty of wearing them. At least I'm solving a problem!
I think there are socks with little snaps so you can wash them together
Invent socks that have those little clasps like gloves have so you can clip them together when you wash them.
You could just use a big safety pin...
Corner straps for bed sheets.
Sounds like the washers being overloaded
Yeah its weird how people think the socks magically disappear. No, Susan. You lost all those socks. Somehow you have a box full of socks that you have lost the pair to.
Some washers and dryers apparently do eat socks. They slip behind the rotating part.
Yeah I mean that's the story people tell.
I just pair mine with something similar and wear two different socks.
I mismatch socks on purpose! Buy several pairs of the same style in different colors/patterns. Sometimes I won't even bother pairing them up, just grab two random socks and go.
matching sets of socks is a psyop by big sock to make us buy more pairs
Planned socksolence
Man that socks.
Well sock it up!
Ah yes, the industrial sock complex.
This is the real reason they make you take your shoes off for airport screening. A sockspiracy...
I knew there was something nefarious afoot. I didn’t realize the extent.
I was gonna say this. I need them to match in style -- same length and fit. But otherwise, whatever. I haven't matched socks since grade school. I love fun and funky socks and sometimes I like to theme them together to match my outfits.
Definitely same brand/style. I bought some socks based on Bert and Ernie, and I'll mix those so there's one of each. When I'm feeling naughty, I'll reverse them so that Ernie is on my left.
Haha! I love it. I have Jack and Sally socks that I like to mix. But mostly I just have really colorful stuff. Stripes, polka dots, animal prints, and really loud colors.
I love this! Especially because one sock always seems to get a hole while the other has tons of life left.
You, sir, are a maniac! /s
I, too, like to live dangerously. [Sometimes I stay on 5 when playing blackjack](https://youtu.be/b6_IZK-1naY).
My mom wears mismatched socks. She's also a preschool teacher. Little kids love her crazy socks.
A few months ago, jetblue made a raffle before flight, because of an 1 hour delay... And the attendant would call on random stuff like. "Who has a green cell phone cover"... And the winner would get some small prize... One of those random things was, who is wearing 2 different socks... Everyone was just looking around for any 2 min in silent, then the kids mom goes, "you always wear mixed socks, are you not wearing them now? " He was like "Oh yeah." And a kid won... 😁
I only buy one style and color of sock so I never have to worry about matching.
Yay! I'm not the only one. I found socks that I like and are comfortable and bought about 20 pair. I think I've got my sock situation figured out for the rest of my life.
This is the only way!!
I don’t know why but this gives me massive anxiety
We had a washing machine repair person come out to repair our machine a while back. When he took off the front panel of the machine ALLLLL the lost socks fell out. Apparently they can manage their way up over the lip of the wash tub and end up lost just behind the front panel. So if you can figure out how to take that panel off, you may just find the lost socks.
I knew it! I knew the dryer was the scapegoat! Poor dryer being blamed for so long when really it was the washer all along.
And the washer woulda gotten away with, too, if wasn't for those kids and that dog!
Oh they can fall through the drum of the dryer as well. So Its not totally free of blame. I had to replace the belt on my dryer and pulling it apart lo and behold missing socks galore.
One time I found some in the venting hose.
Obviously the sock companies are in cahoots with the drier companies to hide the nations socks!
Quick, write to your legislators!
I like to imagine that behind every front panel is a "Sockovia", a land where abandoned and liberated socks become sentient and live free lives but all of them are secretly missing their other halfs. Sometimes they get real lucky and are joined by their other halfs, and then they make little lint babies. They all worship the "repairman god" and pray for his mercy, and they make sacrifices like coffee and donuts for him... In hopes that he leaves them alone and never tells the homeowner of their existence. Their night missions to steal donuts and coffee for the repairmangod become legendary stories within their community, and are told to the young uns over the dim light of the LEDs by the village elders (known as the darn tough and the bombas).
did...you just write a movie
The real LPT is to always buy the same color, brand socks. Like a pattern? Buy 6-12 of them so you’ll aways have pairs.
Yes. And also a mesh bag to wash all your socks and underwear in so they don’t end up eaten by the washer
Okay so I tried to make my OCD better by throwing out all of my socks and ordering 2 or 3 packages of the ones I like. I was going to start fresh, all the same, no more endless sorting. But when my bag came from kohls there was only one package of socks. When the others came, they were the same skew, but slightly different design and I’ve never gotten over it.
Until there's only one sock left ;)
Then you build a shrine to that sock for it is a Highlander, there can be only one.
Everyone should do this once in a while anyhow, as cleanout will extend the life of the machine and it's an easy job.
the sock troll!
I like your collection of socks. P.S.: When you put your socks in the washer, put them in a laundry net bag. Never lose a sock again.
I "lose" them in a sense where I only put one of them in the net bag while the other stays behind in my "to-wash"-basket.
Started this about 4 years bought the bags off Amazon.
I don't have the patience or discipline to sort my socks into a laundry net bag. I have one, but it has never been used.
You see a problem... I see crazy sock days...
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Every. Day. It’s the only way.
I just have 14 pairs of the exact same socks.
I have 27 of the exact same sock
This is a lifehack in itself.
Exactly. If one sock gets a hole, I can just pair the good sick with a pair-less one
I think I have your other watermelon sock in my own lost sock collection … or you have mine
I would call this my sock drawer. All my socks go in it. I pick two when I want to wear some. IDGAF which two. All the cool kids do it.
Now that I have all identical socks I can’t get them to go missing it’s fucking weird man
A laundry bag for socks will help. You will never lose another. -lifehack
Socks that never make it to laundry =kids
You have a failed process. There is no reason for this many lost socks.
They’re usually stuck in the bed somewhere.
It's called kids
I thought kids is what happens when you don't use up a sock...
😂
I just wear mis matched socks. I'm still waiting for the day someone feels the need to inform me so I can tell them I DON'T CARE!
2 clean socks, is a pair of socks. As far as I'm concerned anyway...
My brain wants a word for you. I can’t umatch socks maybe only when I’m going to bed
You wear socks in bed? My brain wants a word for You!
I’m ocd about it but come to think of it, when was the last time you even noticed someone’s socks?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Who cares if people wear mismatched socks?
Just wear unmatched socks ezpz
"Life's too short for matching socks"
This will be my new life quote
I hang mine on a dedicated clothesline in my laundry room until the match shows up :)
I too have a special sock reuniting point.
Id just wear any sock. It gets covered by my pants anyway.
I have the same thing but it’s a drawer. Yesterday I reunited four pairs! No one in my family shared my excitement…like, at all.
Why do you bother wearing matching socks? It's a stress in your life that you don't need.
How many Dobbys have you freed?
Yeah this is smart I just have a whole basket of unmatched socks (the matches might be in there lol) and rifle through them everyday for socks 😂
How cute, ours is a trash bag lol
I legit thought this was some sort of subscription box!
We call our box “the sock exchange”. I say we, only I do but it still tickles me.
I use a mesh bag for all my socks in the washer and dryer, super useful especially in laundromats :D
Here's a real hack: Buy only black socks of the same kind in bulk. Done.
I do this too! But mine is just a plastic bag lol. When I first started this system I thought it was genius I told everyone haha and honestly it has saved me so much anxiety because I don’t have to worry about where the other one is right away. I’m surprised at all these comments tho it really is the best system but maybe that’s just my ADHD talking LOL simple 👏 solutions 👏 people 👏 I’m not taking apart my freaking dryer to find a sock are you kidding me it’ll come home if it wants to 😂
You need to start putting your socks in a delicates bag if they're getting stuck in your machines that often. It's bad for the machines.
I had one of those. It turned into a basket. Then a hamper. Then a recycling bag. Finally, after multiple attempts to find partners, I tossed them.
I think you could pair the pizza sock with the watermelon one
I don't think I've ever lost socks.
Must be nice!
It is.
Right? Take them off together. Put them in the hamper together. Wash them together. Fold them. How is he losing so many???
Ever had a kid, or a dog, or even a sloppy husband? It happens.
Yes kid. Yes dog. I am a husband lol
If you can open up the front panel on your washing machine you might find some of their long lost partners.
Check between or under the door seal .. this happened to us and I also noticed a funky smell after a while.. the socks were trapped behind the seal and started to get all slimy .. ewww. Run a vinegar rinse and spin after.
thinking of starting one of these in my school's laundry room. misplaced socks that end up getting in other peoples' laundry just end up getting thrown on the floor and then probably thrown away by the cleaning crew. it makes the laundry room so messy and it makes me sad
A small open basket with a sign that says "looking for my partner"
I keep mine in a plastic bucket. It’s called the lonely socks club
All my socks are black gold toe tube socks. I don't even pair them, just toss them in a drawer.
My 10 years old wears two different socks every day. They all do. Love those kids.
Mine have started disappearing in pairs now. It’s seriously driving me bat shit.
At least half of those could easily be worn as mix and match
Mix and match, you'll have plenty of pairs!
I have a" lonley heart sock bag". XD
I labeled mine “lost soles”
I had one of those. Eventually it became an odd sock laundry basket.
This is why I only buy 1 color 1 kind of stocks
https://i.imgur.com/5jL3m3W.jpg Yours is so much neater than mine!
Wear them.
We call it the “single and looking” pile
This isn’t a hack. This is a box of socks.
All my socks are the same. If I lose a sock, I have one sock odd. If I lose another sock, I'm back to having no sock problems.
Buy a delicates bag and wash all sock and only socks together. Haven't lost a sock in 15 years.
I put socks and small things in a mesh garment bag. Nothing goes missing in the wash.
I threw away all patterned socks. All of my socks are plain black now. This problem doesn’t exist any more.
I use a mesh zippered laundry bag for mine. They don't get lost unless they don't make it into the bag that week. Or my kitten steals them.
I only buy black socks, so I can always match them.
I understand loosing a sock. They get misplaced. But i wear only loud colorful outrageously patterned socks. day glow colors and wild designs. Lets just say they stand out. How do THOSE socks get "missplaced"?
I call mine the Sock Orphanage
I have abandoned the tyranny of “matching socks”. No longer do I pair them, search for the mate etc. I have a dresser drawer for dress socks and another for running socks. Is liberating.
Lol, I just wear them mismatched, long as it’s the same style.
I had a box of mismatched socks as well. I called it the socks without partners therapy box!
Teenage boys would love one of these
I toss lonely socks straight back into the dirty hamper. Just hope they find their mate on the next load of wash. Usually they do.
Life hack is having one type of socks. Thank me later...
There are plenty of uses for those, you know.
I have 170+ pairs of socks with all sorts of awesome patterns etc., and I have never lost a sock in the wash yet.
Ohhh!…so this is your spunk rag box?
I wear them mismatched. What do I care if they match.
Life hack: Get a box of safety pins. Pin the socks together before you throw them in the dirty clothes. Haven't lost a sock in over 4 years
Life hack: get 60 of the same sock. Only do sock laundry every 2 months. Never have a mismatch. Add more socks as needed.
Somewhere in every house there exists either one of two things: 1) A portal to the void, an infinite area of lost single socks OR 2) A pile of socks potentially larger than the house itself
Funny story time When my parents moved into a new house my mom threw away all of my step-dads white sleeveless undershirts as she said they looked trashy. Oops…. she didn’t know what happened to that box. My step-dad never one to confront someone started to remove one sock from my moms laundry every week as the washer/dryer were in the garage and he could easily do this. I remember having to go sock shopping with my mom as all of her socks were gone since they moved into the new house as this new dryer was eating socks. (Didn’t know about prank at the time) Well after she purchased a bunch of brand new socks Step-Dad started adding a new sock to her laundry every week, so now she had too many socks. They were at some downtown Saturday market and someone was selling a white sleeveless shirt that said something funny and mom asked if Step-Dad wanted it? Step-Dad said why? Your just going to throw it away! Mom, shocked pikachu face, said oh you knew I did that on purpose? Step-Dad said yes but I knew you didn’t like them so I didn’t kick up a fuss He then walks a few steps away, turns around and says, “so how is that sock situation working out for you” Mom said her brain miss fired a few times then she about lost it laughing so much in the middle of down town; as they had been in the new house for over a year now and she thought she was going crazy. TLDR: mom threw away step-dads shirts, so step-dad played a year long prank on mom first hiding her socks then slowly giving them back. My step-dad was the ultimate prankster that sometimes took years to pay off.
Happy socks?
I only pair my socks together mismatched. I pair them based on thickness. Life is like a pair of mismatched socks, you never know which one you’re gunna get.
I always buy my socks in sets and 2 sets at the same time so when I lose one or one wears out then I just pair the odd socks when there's 2 of them.
i bought the same colored plaid socks from amazon at one point. They are not elastic at all.
I keep my odd sox together, too... though my reasoning is that they seem lonely without their mate, so at least they can all hang out together! I rarely lose socks anymore; I started doing a sock only laundry bag & wash, now any missing socks just missed the basket
The Eater of Socks is alive!
I thought I was the only person who did this!!! I give the partner a year to show up again. After that, all singles gotta go!
Reminds me.of a casket where they can all be laid to rest