To hide DH clean socks

[Elliptic5]

I have asked DH to either let me know or sort out a wash load when he is down to his last couple of pairs of socks, especially as he travels quite often on business. Today, when I went to put his clean socks away, for the third time in six weeks I found he had no socks at all in his drawer.

Now I don't object to doing the washing as I don't work outside the home, but I do object to being the sock monitor, he had no idea I'd washed these socks so what he had planned to wear tomorrow I have no idea.
So AIBU to hide his clean socks? Will he even learn anything from it? (probably not if I'm honest).

Sorry to sound like I am from the 1950s but YABU...if you do the washing, surely you know?

Uh?

Don't you just put the washing on when there is a load to do? And put them away when clean?

I expect he thought " I put my socks in the wash basket elliptic will have done a load by tomorrow or I can put one on after work "

Buy some more socks. Life and marriages are too important to sweat the infinitesimal stuff that is "should he tell me if he's running out of socks" .

Or is there a bigger agenda I've failed to detect and this isn't about socks?

You sound extremely childish. I don't work outside the home either, and I keep on top of the washing for my husband, our daughter and myself. If it's been put in the laundry basket it gets washed.

You're being unreasonable!

Give him a break.

Do you either not wash often or only have a few socks?

Surely even if you wash only once a week, you should be able to wear a diff pair of socks for 7 days and still have spare if 10 pairs of socks. How can a whole drawer be in the wash at once?

I would buy another multipack of 5 for £3 if socks are causing arguments

Does DH complain about lack of clean socks? Because if he doesn't, why do you care?

How many pairs of socks does he have? If it's (say) 8, he should have enough to last until the next wash, assuming you wash vaguely regularly.

Thought this might be an amusing thread for a Friday afternoon, will chastise my childish self (thanks Gruntfuttock) and rush to the shops to buy him more socks.

I wouldn't hide his socks (or buy him new ones) I'd just carry on as usual, doing the washing when the basket was full, and, if he ever did run out of socks, that would be his problem to deal with, not mine!

I do a wash everyday and there's only 3 of us here but it manages to creep up. Dp always has clean socks but the amount of dirty ones I find lying about arghhhhh! It's not hard to take them off and walk 3 seconds to the bathroom to put them in the basket

My Dh puts on dirty socks from the laundry basket if there's no clean ones in his drawers.

This does usually spur him on to do a load of washing himself, mind.

I say this to DH and he never does it, then moans he has no clean underwear.

There are 6 of us. DS2 is potty training and at the moment pooing his pants a few times a day [joy] and DS3 manages to need clean clothes everyday despite wearing two bibs and having a tidy diner. I tend to do a quick wash of toddler washing a day and then one other large load. When you factor in towels and bedding then it's quite easy to forget who needs sock or pants.
I invite DH to dip into the odd sock basket if he has run out or bloody well do his own!

Yanbu. Dh drives me mad with this too. I've more or less stopped doing his washing for him, he can keep on top of his own and I'll do mine and the dc.

Roffling at the replies from our housewife friends on this thread.

YANBU! but, I tried this with Ds and it didn't work at all! he just wore a dirty pair! ugh!!

well, DH announced drunkenly last night that he'd run out of pants - I do 3 loads a week, so it might have been about a week since the last white wash. Not everyone does a load a day, you know! He normally say if he's run out as tbh I do the washing when I've run out of stuff!

(Glitz - If there's 3 of you, why do you need a wash every day?? There's 3 of us, and it's one lights, 1 or 2 darks and 1 towels a week. I simply don't understand how some MNers have so much laundry!)

It wouldnt be a big deal even if you hid them, would i? When I run out of clean socks, I just fish the least offensive smelling pair out of the washing basket. I thought everyone did this.

I think it might be just me and Elliptic married to sockhiders.

DH owns probably thirty or forty pretty much identical pairs of black socks. He sheds them and I used to find them all over the house - under tables, stuffed down the sides of sofas, by the loo, etc. If his bare feet get cold he puts another pair on, so he can wear ten to twenty pairs a week.

It was often quite possible for the laundry basket and his sock drawer to be empty at the same time. Then I'd have to search for the discards to do a load of just festering black socks.

So one day I announced a zero tolerance sock policy. If I found socks in the laundry basket, I would wash them. If I found them elsewhere, I would hide them (in the cupboard where the laundry detergent lives, to prove he never opened it, although obviously I didn't say where). He agreed that that was fair, and declared that he was enough of an adult to put his socks in the laundry basket or wash them himself.

Fast forward two weeks. He is panicking because he has nearly no clean socks. I laugh lots, in victory, and resume sock washing. But he has been much, much better since.

Buy lots of socks and perhaps have a zero tolerance trial.

Disclaimer: I was very depressed at the time and although it isn't a rational thing to do it definitely made me feel better for a bit.

Just do the washing in the basket and if her runs out of socks hell mend him. What's this concept that adult men need other people to deal with their socks. If you do teh washing fair enough but grown uos don't need fecking sock monitors.