Drastic Action Against Socks - DAAS!

[QuintessentialOldMoo]

Aibu to take drastic action against socks? Or rather, lonely socks?

After every wash, there is at least ONE unpaired sock. I leave it on the side. By the end of the month, the one lone sock is kept company by at least 5-6 other equally unpaired socks. Where do they all go?

Aibu to do a formal "Throw Away Sunday" the first sunday of every month?

[junkcollector]

Yanbu. We have "Sockfest" once a month in our house. There's a huge basket of them. Pairs are happily reunited and singles are left to moulder on the scrap heap until such time as a pair is found or the DCs scatter them around the house use them for exciting art projects. Any not made use of are dispatched painlessly.
It's like sock Logan's Run round here.

[QuintessentialOldMoo]

I like the thought of accommodating lots of cute little vain fairies, sleeping in my children socks!

I hope they are nice fairies.

[LucretiaInShadows]

I don't understand this. At the end of each day, we each remove one sock from each foot and place both in the laundry basket. The contents of the basket are transferred to the washing machine and then the washing line. Somehow mine come home in pairs, and DP's go off exploring. Perhaps the fairies round here only like big sleeping bags.

[Mandy2003]

My DS had an odd sock in his drawer for about 6 months. I thought it's mate would never reappear so I threw it out.

The next week I used a duvet cover that I don't often use. There was the missing sock, in the corner of the cover. Grr!

[x2boys]

i have no idea where all the socks go but i have to buy my children aged 4 and 1 new socks at least monthly as they all seem to disappear

[startail]

Both DH and DD1 have black socks with coloured toes they are brilliant. They may get separated, but happy reunions occur easily.
I tried buying only M and S black socks, but of course different batches ended up getting mixed. Stripy toes for DH and plain for DD1 mean NO more trying to make the best of a miss matched heap of various degrees of greyness.
(Well it would if I threw out the old ones, but I'm too mean).
DD2 has so many socks, because she had her own and sisterly hand-me-downs that I really don't care if half of them are in the odd sock draw.

[OTheHugeManatee]

Venusandmars - I just cackled out loud at your friends sneaking their odd socks into your amnesty bag. That's evil

[flickor]

baby socks are the worst DD keeps pulling them off - lots of missed matched socks. Might start a lonely sock column

[olderandwider]

Everyone knows Washing Machines demand a Sock Tax.

I urge you not to deny your Machine this tax. It is a law of the universe that every Machine must have at least one sock from a Matched Pair for every wash!

Tis very dangerous to try and outwit the Machines by only giving it identical matched pairs. You will still end up with 13 socks, not 14.

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[ShoutyHamster]

Nail 'em to the porch, OP... as a warning to other socks.

[4madboys]

socks are a nightmare in this house... i recently had TWO pampers boxes FULL of odd socks!! i had a big hunt around the house and in bedrooms etc and managed to pair up over a box full

with four boys we have LOTS of socks and annoyingly my mil bought them all matching socks, v sweet not. but you think you have a pair but they are the same onlyin a diff size, infuriating.

anyhow now when they take their socks off they roll them into ball and they go in the wash like that and then are tumble dried like that, bad i know but they seem to wash and dry ok and they remain a pair!