where are my socks?

[SheelaNeGoldGig]

in the last 8 weeks i have bought 15 pairs of socks.

5 pairs of black trainer socks

10 pairs of black socks with coloured toes.

I am wearing a pair now.

And i have one other sock. A single one, not a pair.

So where are the other 27?

27 missing socks.

It is ridiculous.

Is that them over there?

I have found 4 pairs of vagurly similar socks. It will have to do. Its bonkers though. I really have no idea where my new ones are.

Your dh is using them as a loveglove?
if you suspect the washing machine don't put them in there....shower in your socks instead.

Oh dear the sock nicking pixie LOL
I think the washer and dryer eat socks and the dishwasher eats the teaspoons.
Where do you buy a 50 pack of teaspoons from? greenhill

Funnily enough i had this conversation atwork recently apparently we all have a sock monster at my work i secretly think the washing machine is in on this though, i only ever buy black socks for my dh and two lttle boys but still end up with odd socks how? I dont think it helps however that as soon as my boys get home they take there socks off and throw them to the opposite ends of the house!

i lose pens too! unfortunatley my two year old finds them very easily hence scribble everywhere i can nevere find one when i need one!

We never have socks in our house, there is me and three dc.

I even had to phone my mum last week and ask to borrow socks for the dc as it was school the next morning and I could only find one sock!

I get so irrationally angry about this. I started a new rule in this house. You must pair your socks when you take them off and put them in the laundry bin. I then COUNT the bastards into the machine. The socks go in two by two hurrah. Except they come out on their fucking own. Where do they go? 21 socks I have in my odd sock bucket. Buggers.

Teaspoons. I bought twenty five at the beginning of the summer holidays. We're down to six.

And thermometers. Oh God I'm going to pop something important in my head one day. I have lost 4 this year. Two weeks ago I used the thermometer and said to dh, I am putting this thing in the medicine cabinet, look watch, I will need it in another hour to check dd (dh dutifully stood and watched me do it. We agreed it was in the cabinet). Two days ago I bought a replacement thermometer. AGAIN. After a fortnight of looking. Bastard bastards.

And hair sodding ties. I'm too angry to type.

join the odd sock club and never worry about pairs again
YABU to fret about socks

yes hair bobbles i agree are a problem as are all types of cutlery in my home always end up with loads of knives and nothing else

Those who lose teaspoons, do you have toddlers? I discovered why my sisters teaspoons kept vanishing, it was because her 2 DC (aged 2 and 4 at the time) chucked the spoon in the bin along with the pot after they'd had a yoghurt. They have frubes now :o

Ah yes hair bobbles, we have about three left from a huge multipack and all three are different colours
I considered the bin for the teaspoons but we recycle the pots from yoghurt so thats not it Dd throws everything in the sink.
I'm also down to 4 steak knives I used to have 12.

Teaspoons have a death wish. They emit hypnotic waves that urge you to throw them in the bin with the yogurt pot or teabag.

Socks are hiding in duvet covers or pillowcases (or sometimes down the sleeves or legs of other clothes) or they've fallen down the back of wherever you were when you were folding or putting away the rest of the washing.

DD (4yo) chooses to wear odd socks. Sometimes she puts 4 on at a time to sleep in but refuses to wear pyjama bottoms.

Half of our socks end up chewed by the dogs and dragged outside. No matter how many times I tell everyone not to leave them hanging around they just don't seem to manage it. Must add 3 of my dogs are big so they don't actually need to be on the floor, they nick them from tables and out of the washing basket, well pretty much anywhere if they aren't actually in a closed drawer.

There was a thread recently about someone who had lost her rings... They turned up eventually inside a recipe book, have you checked there?

and DON'T make the mistake I made of buying DS 'days of the week' socks. Now even if I can find a pair, it's for the wrong day of the week...

Can't remember where I've bulk bought spoons in the past, but ours don't match each other or the other cutlery. Some are ancient and have been discarded by our parents.

My DM only uses matching stuff and is still bitter about my glass smashing ability as a child. She'd buy a new set for Christmas and the first time I used them I'd break one, so they'd only have 3 of each set for years.

I buy black hair ties in Wilkinsons for £1 and keep them under the shower room sink, only taking them off the card one at a time. I still have a pot of odd coloured ones that can't be used at school though.

fortunatley as my name suggests i dont have daughters as my hair bobble situation would be horrendous but i have long hair work on a dementia unit and often have to run to the shop at 7am to buy hair bobbles as obviously i really need them for work!

whatson - imagine the gasp of relief on the day that DS noticed his pants had a day of the week on... 'Mummy, these pants say 'Monday' and its Thursday today'... 'yes ds, they do, well done for reading that'. And he put them on despite that.

Socks - I discovered that if I buy black socks (I often wear black trousers for work) that the laundry fairy, who normally doesn't bother to do anything, tidies them up and puts them in DH's sock drawer - because they're black so must be his. So he then puts them on and immediately goes through the toes....

We definitely have a sock monster here though - it regularly eats one of the pair (not always matching) that's been scattered somewhere between the front door and bedroom after school.

and dummys my two year old will only go to sleep with one i buy loads every week can i find one at bed time never!

Oh god don't get me started on hair bands and clips. Unlike socks, they do turn up - just never in the right colour for school until I have just bought even more

What about losing the only acceptable toy just before bedtime (the other 19 already in bed are just not enough of course)