Is there a sock monster eating my socks when I do laundry?

Question

I tried so hard this time, accounted for every sock, before washing, and after drying there is a sock that disappeared. It happens every time, can someone please provide a valid or mythical explanation?

Answer 1

Shh..not so loudly there listening! You know the garden gnomes! It gets cold outside sometimes!

Answer 2

Try this, it works for me, and has done for years. I haven't had a casualty ever!!!

Whenever you throw your socks into the laundry pile, roll them together, just like you do when they're clean.

When you remove them from the washing machine, if they are going to be hung on the line match them up first by hanging them all around the top of the machine until everything is out and you can account for every sock that went in. Then, when you place them in the basket, place one pair on a diagonal, and then place the next pair across it at a right angle. When you hang them out colour code your pegs, so that each pair has its own colour, and no two colour pegs are next to each other. This is so that you can distinguish between similar or identical pairs. I have red, white and blue pegs, so that's the order I hang them in.

Before taking them off the line, I roll each pair together (as they are hung by the toes) so that when they go in the basket they have already been matched.

This might sound really over the top, but it hasn't failed me yet. My socks live to their intended age and don't go AWOL.

If you focus on the task at hand, to the exclusion of all other distractions, you can't go wrong. You may even begin to enjoy doing laundry, as it can represent a form of meditation.

Answer 3

I have been there, man. It is the Lord of Socks. He taketh away and he giveth back. Last time I actually had some additional socks pop out of my washing machine. They had been gone for three years. I must have pleased him in a way, I don't know.

I have tried to sit in front of the washing machine and to follow the movements as the program went, but alas, still socks missing in action.

I have also tried to number each different sock but I ended up having only even numbers: 0, 2, 4

I am a fellow victim and as startled as you, why don't you call S.A? Socks Anonymous? 555-sock

Answer 4

Ah, the notorious sock wormhole! It's said that somewhere is an alternate dimension filled with nothing but huge mountains of unmatched socks and disposable cigarette lighters.

What actually happens is that the socks stick to larger items, or work their way inside them, and then fall on the floor later without being noticed. Especially if you are washing bed linens, socks are very likely to stick to sheets or get caught in the corner pockets of fitted sheets. Try shaking out each item as you take it out of the dryer, and carefully watch for any falling socks.

You can buy little plastic thingies to hold pairs of socks together in the wash... basically a flat plastic ring with notches around the inside. I usually see them in catalogs that sell clever little household gadgets. I would think that those plastic cable-bundling tabs would work just as well, though.

Answer 5

I own a public laundromat and socks are the number one item that is left sticking to the sides of the tubs in the washers. I throw away probably 50 a week. Other than that, you "lose" them under beds at home, behind sofas, even behind washers! Cats, dogs and other pets drag them off and does who knows what with them.
Try balling them together until they are put into the wash and at least you will lose a matched pair, better yet buy all socks alike and you will always have a spare one ;)
Did I mention socks are known to hear you comming and dive under furniture? The only one you find is the slow one.
...jj

Answer 6

I certainly have a problem with disappearing socks .
There must be a pro gramme built into washing machines
by the manufacturers that likes nothing better than to pinch millions of socks .Try pinning them together.

Answer 7

dont know if there is a logical explanation for it. We have that problem at our house too but Ive pretty much put a stop to that by using a safety pin to keep pairs of socks together during laundry time.

Answer 8

to respond to quickly. "certain" there is someplace contained in the Universe, very resembling comments of previous about an Elephant burial floor,,, an area the position all socks go. Is it Cotton Heaven? i can't say, yet i comprehend one component if no longer some thing else. SOCK manufacturers might want to promote their product in 3's. absolutely we many times positioned on 2 at a time, and particularly frequently under no circumstances lose both contained in the cleansing procedure. The sock drawer keeps the alternative. in my opinion "I" do not positioned on them. previous that there is a sock philosophy, everyday in hardship-free words to them and the Universe. that is totally resembling Cats having 3 names,,,ONE, we may be able to under no circumstances extremely comprehend. perhaps the afterlife will coach the lost socks? perhaps we will be cushioned softly, IF we arrive there, in some unspecified time sooner or later? OR, possibly, and quite if we were the variety who were given Coal in a Christmas stocking, we must be destined, endlessly to "wash" and wonder? Smiles Steven Wolf

Answer 9

Washing machines eat socks. It's true. It's what keeps them going for years. Stop feeding your machine socks and see how long it keeps running.

Answer 10

i have a huge pile. they are called Socks Without Sisters. i am waiting for the others to show up, or have a big ole sock yard sale and see if someone else around here wants them.

Answer 11

It's me. I have a sock fetish. I steal socks from everybody's laundry. I have a room that's overflowing with socks that have no matches.