to ask if you have a sock thief living in your house?

[hometutor1234]

Ok genuinely can't fathom how every time I do the laundry there are odd socks. I have a row of odd socks dried and in a nice row from the last few laundry loads and am still unable to find their matching socks.

I now have a further 7 - yes 7 odd socks from the laundry I have put on the line.

How is this possible - is there a little person living in my house collecting socks?

Do other people have this problem - do you also have a sock thief? Do you ever recover the missing socks?

Do you accept this admit defeat and just buy new socks?

It's a conundrum, I need reassurance I am not the only person suffering with this recurring sock problem.

[IABURQO]

Once upon a time I was walking to work and saw that the man in front of me had a sock stuck to his jumper by static. Fascinated and exhilarated, I watched this sock peel slowly off his jumper as I mused that it must be tumble-drying or excess spinning that created this static effect and stole socks. The sock fell quietly at the side of the road in a dirty puddle. Thereby answering another question about how random small articles of clothing wind up in the street. Sadly I was so busy thinking about the huge implications of this that I didn't think to tell the man about his sock until he'd rounded the corner onto the busy high street and disappeared; one more black jumper in a sea of dark clothes. I thought of his exasperated sigh on finding one more solo sock. He'll never know I let it die there at the side of the road.

I also found a fork in the bin once and have forever more held the bin as prime suspect for missing cutlery.

[UpstartCrow]

I use laundry bags for socks and still lose them.

[RoseMartha]

Yes i dont understand this either, where do they go? 🤔 i have a bag of odd socks, i sometimes go through it and am able to match a couple of pairs but I dont know how it happens to be honest.

[PhilomenaButterfly]

I have the same problem QOD.

[ElfrideSwancourt]

Washing machines do eat socks- when my friend had her septic tank pumped out they found loads of socks in it!

A great thread about housework last year really helped with odd socks, which used to cause me lots of stress.

Now I wash all the socks (some family members have even been trained to put their dirty socks straight in!!) in a lingerie washing net - hey presto no more missing socks!!

[UnderaRock]

I have cats. Usually socks and hair ties end up under the couch

[longwayoff]

QOD that's weird and unnatural. I suspect you may be a secret lizard person

[QOD]

I have the reverse. Endlessly confused by never ever losing socks.
Sometimes I’ll wash one of a pair and see the odd one in the corner of dds room. But I never have lingering odd ones

It’s most weird!

We have 3 laundry baskets and dd wears 2 or 3 pairs a day so I should lose loads 🤷🏻‍♀️

[PawneeParksDept]

I thought so until I found about 10 under the bed today when cleaning out

For me it's black hair ties and hair grips. I'm pretty sure some have vanished whilst still attached to the cardboard! Bastards.

[Severide08]

I don't even want to add up how much I spend on socks. Especially black school ones and how many are missing now and I have so many missing it's partner .They go in the laundry basket,washing machine and then poof,vanish .Definately have a sock monster here,a very greedy one .

[Notlostjustexploring]

We have the same issue here. I just don't understand it. I can have literally every sock in existence in our house in the same room to pair, and I still end up with extras. Every so often I bin all odd socks and buy new pairs and the cycle starts again.

Disappearing teaspoons has been the subject of a scientific study...
www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

It hypothesises that teaspoons migrate to a spoonoid planet, which I think is the most logical theory....

[TeaCupp]

Yes! Mine has fur and looks suspiciously like my pup! I've given up trying to wear matching socks now as I usually have to rewash the one that's been dragged to his bed and drooled on.

[NorthernFlowerHouse]

I've got one and I live alone! He seems to like knickers too, the weirdo.

[longwayoff]

I used to think the teaspoons went because kids unthinkingly chucked them out with yoghurt pots. But kids now no longer here and teaspoons still on their secret and solitary journeys into the unknown.

[Frogletmamma]

STILL NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DD 11

[Frogletmamma]

...And she used to believe me implicitly.

[Frogletmamma]

NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DD 11

[Frogletmamma]

Its the golden sockeater. A large spider that collects socks not in fact to eat them but to make a comfy nest for its little spiderlings.

[BeautifulPossibilities]

I don't get this at all. A friend of mine has a laundry basket filled with odd socks. We very very rarely have one, it's usually under the bed if one shows up. Is it maybe something to do with your wash machine seal?

[GerdaLovesLili]

You have obviously conjured up a Discworld "eater of socks"

[harrietthehare]

Some of my odd socks turned up the other day - maybe the sock thief was feeling guilty!

[filzma]

House elves freeing themselves.🙈

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

We have a sock and pant monster here

[Velourpine]

Socks and cutlery in my house! I once bought 20 pairs of black socks and within a month I was down to 5. My forks and spoons keep disappearing too. I live alone 80% of the time so it’s quite worrying😂

[RibbonAurora]

I wonder if we should do a study as to the prevalence of missing left socks as opposed to missing right socks? It could be an important factor in figuring out how this happens and why. I just asked DH this since he's the big expert and all but he just looked at me like I was a crazy person and walked away muttering.

Maybe I should have waited until he's had his second cup of coffee.