I lose socks. With every load of laundry, at least a few socks come out clean, but without a match. I’ve been doing this forever. I can’t explain it. I’ve tried to come up with ways to avoid the loss, but nothing seems to work.
I keep the newly single in a bag in my closet, in the hopes of one day reuniting them with their mate, but it rarely happens. The bag is full. At any given time 50 single socks reside in that bag. It seems there really is a Land of Lost Socks, and my socks have a special one-way entrance pass.
Dan claims that before he met me, he hadn’t lost a sock to the washer and/or dryer. I’m not sure I believe him, but the number lost now that I do all the laundry (I removed his laundry privileges after the ‘favourite shirt shrinkage debacle of 2005’), must have doubled or even tripled. I’m out of control. Dan has even had to start his own ‘single sock bag’ and he’s not happy about it. He gives me the ‘the look’ every time I hand him the latest casualties.
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I did not stop there. The madness is not reserved for just Dan and I. As I folded Jaia’s clothes last night, I came to the end of the hamper and noticed that I’d lost 3 (yes 3) socks. There were 3 lonely pastel baby socks sitting in the bottom, waiting to be transferred to the yet to be started ‘single baby sock bag’. This is not a good trend. Jaia only has about 10-15 pairs of socks…and they are tiny…so they won’t be easy to find.
It looks like the babies of the Land of Lost Socks will, from now on, have toasty tootsies. I guess I always knew this would happen.
Alicia - I can’t even begin to inventory the amount of lost socks in the Crawford-Blake household. I’ve actually given up. The girls often go to school with mismatched socks. Some days I go a little nutty and buy 10 or 15 pairs of socks for them at a time.. That will last us 7.5 days. Then we’re back to mis-matched socks…
It really is that bad.
Kristin - I have a bag dubbed “The City of Lost Socks”. They are all mine. Somehow, Kurt’s seem to avoid the fate that befalls my own socks. It’s so sad.
Lisa - Joel has come up with a solution to this and I have to say it isn’t perfect but it’s better than nothing. We he takes his socks off he folds the tops together just slightly (less than you would if you were folding clean socks)this way, the socks stay together all the way to the wash and sometimes through the wash and into the dryer. Just be careful that the “folded” dirty socks don’t get mixed up with the folded clean ones. Good Luck
Great Aunt Shirley - Shannen
The sock thing doesn’t get better with age. Hopefully you have a front load washer. I once had a top load washer that needed to be overhauled because a baby sock flew over the top and down the edge and into the motor.
I also think that there is a pen pile somewhere and when I finally find it I may not be able to get out from under it. My students at school are always lending me pens to mark with and I can’t begin to count how many pens I’ve bought this year!!! Where are they?