Socks getting lost in my house

Infernal Racket · 27-04-2019 7:02pm #1

I just want to know where the hell they all go. It's not through the filter of the washing machine because that's impossible. I've lost hundreds of socks over the years and I still cant figure it out?

hairyprincess · 27-04-2019 7:03pm

You haven’t heard of the sock monster?

Infernal Racket · 27-04-2019 7:13pm

hairyprincess wrote: »

You haven’t heard of the sock monster?

I think he and his whole family and extended relatives live in my house

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 9:36pm

I'm still waiting for any credible explanation here folks, help me out. ðŸ˜

M5 · 28-04-2019 9:38pm

Rip in the space time continuum most likely!

y0ssar1an22 · 28-04-2019 9:39pm

Once you wear the 1st pair of unmatched socks you start a chain reaction. Then the socks are never on the same wash cycle, plus the bed sucks them up as well. Washing socks needs to akin to a military operation. Plan ahead, have a checklist. If 1 sock goes missing his comrade should immediately be retired

Hal3000 · 28-04-2019 9:43pm

Gerry G wrote: »

I'm still waiting for any credible explanation here folks, help me out. ðŸ˜

Under the bed
In the bottom of an old pair of pants
Down the back of the garden
Behind the drawer of the actual sock drawer
In another family members / housemates sock drawer

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 9:52pm

Hal3000 wrote: »

Under the bed
In the bottom of an old pair of pants
Down the back of the garden
Behind the drawer of the actual sock drawer
In another family members / housemates sock drawer

No damn it, I've checked everywhere for those poor lost souls

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 9:53pm

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

Once you wear the 1st pair of unmatched socks you start a chain reaction. Then the socks are never on the same wash cycle, plus the bed sucks them up as well. Washing socks needs to akin to a military operation. Plan ahead, have a checklist. If 1 sock goes missing his comrade should immediately be retired

You talk some sense man

waynescales1 · 28-04-2019 9:55pm

Pointless thread, put a sock in it.

coastwatch · 28-04-2019 9:57pm

Its a mystery.
But why are they only sold in pairs, when you only need to replace one?

loyatemu · 28-04-2019 9:58pm

Somewhere in the universe there is a planet entirely given over to sock life forms. And it is to this planet that unattended socks make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they know they can enjoy a uniquely sock-oid lifestyle, responding to highly sock-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the sock equivalent of the good life.

with apologies to Douglas Adams, wherever he is.

Pawwed Rig · 28-04-2019 9:58pm

Inside duvet covers is a good place. Or in my case an evil wife who puts single socks into drawers.

Alf Veedersane · 28-04-2019 9:58pm

Don't be fooled by the name. They're into socks too.

somesoldiers · 28-04-2019 9:58pm

Get rid of all socks,buy 10 identical black pairs

Hal3000 · 28-04-2019 9:59pm

Gerry G wrote: »

No damn it, I've checked everywhere for those poor lost souls

Christ ! Ok, now socks seem to be drawn to dust, or dust is drawn to socks but that's for another discussion, either way you need to check all the dusty zones in your premises ASAP... Also old gym / gear bags. You don't have much time. Go Go Go

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 10:05pm

waynescales1 wrote: »

Pointless thread, put a sock in it.

Boom Boom

galwayspur · 28-04-2019 10:08pm

They come back as tupperware lids in this house.

Gimme A Pound · 28-04-2019 10:18pm

Awaiting further updates on the recently identified black hole - bet it contains millions of socks.

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 10:20pm

galwayspur wrote: »

They come back as tupperware lids in this house.

Hahaha, you must have all my kids because I just have empty containers with no lids

Westernyelp · 28-04-2019 10:22pm

Gerry G wrote:

Hahaha, you must have all my kids because I just have empty containers with no lids

That's how your kids got out so

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 10:24pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

That's how your kids got out so

Damn you autocorrect. Lids, not kids

TCM · 28-04-2019 10:24pm

We have a pillow slip full of odd socks.

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 10:25pm

Malani Short Pollution wrote: »

Awaiting further updates on the recently identified black hole - bet it contains millions of socks.

I bet Stephen Hawking could have figured it all out

artanevilla · 28-04-2019 10:25pm

Use the buddy system. Count the pairs into the machine and out again. A sock does not go into the machine without a buddy.

Blaizes · 28-04-2019 10:31pm

Good tip is buy same color sets then no problem matching up.

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 10:32pm

artanevilla wrote: »

Use the buddy system. Count the pairs into the machine and out again. A sock does not go into the machine without a buddy.

The all black sock option is becoming more and more appealing

Ferajacka · 28-04-2019 10:32pm

I've tried everything, thought I was onto a winner by buying only black socks that fit everyone in the house over a 2 month period.
"We'll never run out if socks again" I thought.
Until, we did.
I decided enough is enough I'm going find the socks, as I could not afford to buy more.
After Searching the whole house, 3 bedroom semi, I finally came upon a basket full of black socks the motherload if you will.
Now our drawers are plentiful of socks, but, for how long?

Hal3000 · 28-04-2019 10:33pm

Gerry G wrote: »

The all black sock option is becoming more and more appealing

That's socksist...

Mam of 4 · 28-04-2019 10:35pm

artanevilla wrote: »

Use the buddy system. Count the pairs into the machine and out again. A sock does not go into the machine without a buddy.

What happens when you take off two socks , but one mysteriously disappears before you even get to the washing machine ?!

Hal3000 · 28-04-2019 10:37pm

This whole buzz of buy all the same colour is complete madness. Like asking a great artist to only use one colour in a masterpiece in case he loses the rest. Socks define us, try imagining a world of only 1 colour of sock ? Madness

coastwatch · 28-04-2019 10:39pm

You could get laundry bags, try not to loose them.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XSD44RG/ref=psdc_1345796031_t2_B07CV9KDXD

Hal3000 · 28-04-2019 10:39pm

Mam of 4 wrote: »

What happens when you take off two socks , but one mysteriously disappears before you even get to the washing machine ?!

Something's man is just not meant to know

y0ssar1an22 · 28-04-2019 10:42pm

Like cats, evil ****ers just trying to **** with us. Try having no cats

artanevilla · 28-04-2019 10:44pm

Mam of 4 wrote: »

What happens when you take off two socks , but one mysteriously disappears before you even get to the washing machine ?!

Put the other in the pile of lonely bois until such time as a buddy appears.

Mam of 4 · 28-04-2019 10:45pm

artanevilla wrote: »

Put the other in the pile of lonely bois until such time as a buddy appears.

I just wear odd socks at this point

Infernal Racket · 28-04-2019 10:48pm

coastwatch wrote: »

You could get laundry bags, try not to loose them.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XSD44RG/ref=psdc_1345796031_t2_B07CV9KDXD

You work for Amazon don't ya?

Blaizes · 28-04-2019 11:07pm

Have often wished a manufacturer would put a little piece of Velcro on each sock so they could be matched up before hitting the washing machine and stay together.

Alf Veedersane · 28-04-2019 11:10pm

Hal3000 wrote: »

This whole buzz of buy all the same colour is complete madness. Like asking a great artist to only use one colour in a masterpiece in case he loses the rest. Socks define us, try imagining a world of only 1 colour of sock ? Madness

People with kerrazy socks need help.

All the one colour and you never have to go searching for the pair. They're all pairs. It's a world of equality.

Suckit · 28-04-2019 11:17pm

Blaizes · 28-04-2019 11:20pm

Suckit wrote: »

Very funny

Blaizes · 28-04-2019 11:21pm

Posted twice

the_pen_turner · 28-04-2019 11:35pm

Hal3000 wrote: »

This whole buzz of buy all the same colour is complete madness. Like asking a great artist to only use one colour in a masterpiece in case he loses the rest. Socks define us, try imagining a world of only 1 colour of sock ? Madness

its not about it being one colour. you can have multiple colours if you want. it is more about having one style of sock for each colour. all your blue socks are the same colour blue and the same size ,shape and design etc. you can reach in and grab 2 the same colour and away you go with no matching or searching the right shade and stripe pattern

Gonad · 28-04-2019 11:37pm

Do you have a teenage son called Jim?

sweetie · 28-04-2019 11:41pm

I found about 6 single socks in the outlet of our dryer.

29-04-2019 10:57pm

I think I'll pair this lost sock with the other in AH!

ogsjw · 29-04-2019 11:00pm

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

plus the bed sucks them up as well.

How are you living????? :pac::pac::pac:

Bobblehats · 29-04-2019 11:23pm

If you pair your socks off they should stay together

For a time; at least that’s until they get sick of the very smell of each other and undertake the process of separation.

markc1184 · 29-04-2019 11:25pm

I used to wonder the same until I found a load in my dogs kennel.

Billy86 · 29-04-2019 11:30pm

I moved to Canada on Sep 30th with an embarrassment of socks, 32 pairs.

By February, I was down to 4 pairs, 3 torn, and 25 individual, odd ones. I bought 12 new pairs, and 7 of them are already torn/have one lost

I am half convinced at this point that a sock fetishist lives in my building.

bazz26 · 29-04-2019 11:33pm

Al Bundy had a similar problem OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrgq52Uc3YE

Socks getting lost in my house

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