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.

Yes - tea spoons and forks as well! Glad I am not the only one!!

No sock thieves here. Socks get taken off, put in the washing machine, put on the line/radiator, put away.

philomena - what about fork, spoon or plastic lid thieves? do they live with you?

Check to corners of duvet covers,I have found a few here even though no washed at the same time.
Children's sick often reappear when said child's feet have grown.

I have a real sock thief. Her name is Bella and she's a cocker pop 😂😂

Odd socks fabric breaks up and dedicates and becomes dryer lint. You’re welcome!

*Dessicates

Yes, this is he! Lucas the sock snatcher, knicker nabber and bra burglar!

Aw I love Lucas - he's gorgeous! I have a black lab - he's probably responsible for some of the missing socks! Is he a husky?

I have well given up on looking for odd socks. Rest of the family (DH & 2 adult DS) always wear odd socks anyway, even if they've got the other one handy. They say they like wearing odd socks!

I like school socks, they come in packs of 10, so when one gets a hole in I just throw it away and replace it.

Teaspoon and toddler spoon thieves, yes. Although I think that's just DH inadvertently chucking them in the bin.

@mothersanonymous I also find socks that aren't ours - hence the user name. Maybe we have matching pairs between us?

I have a bag of odd socks that I keep meaning to try and sort out when I'm bored. There must be about 40 in there I just keep adding to them rather than rummage through every time we have a new addition. Maybe this is what I'll do today!

I recently happened to pull a sock out that I'd spotted between the cushions of a chair ds2 often sits on, so thought I'd double check if there were any more there. I found a few, then there was one that I couldn't quite get so tried again and realised that there was a second tier of 'back of the chair' hole that I had to really wriggle my hand to get to - so had never checked it when normally doing a quick check down the back of the chair for socks (ds2 has a bad habit of disgarding socks randomly and in odd places, never as a pair).

I found loads of socks - I ended up with almost 20 pairs - some that were definitely a size or two too small so had obviously been there for a loooong time. Explains why I seemed to be forever buying socks and where they all went to!

Needless to say, I now check down there on a regular basis... The annoying thing is that I thought I was checking down the chair as I was finding a few - obviously stragglers who hadn't completed their disappearance into the depths of the chair. I suspect that if anyone ever takes the chair apart in years to come there will be more that have worked their way into the innards of the chair but I'm not going to go there for now!

Yes of the 4 legged kind.
Our dog picks up socks and shoes, one at a time and takes them into the garden and leaves them there.

Yup, socks and teaspoons. It's quite a relief to know it's everyone.

@hometutor1234 yes he’s a husky and a very stubborn a-typical one at that! He can be such a pain, we have to practically keep the wash basket under lock and key as as soon as there’s a pair of knickers or socks or a bra or even tights in it he’ll secretly nab it and you don’t even know until you find the remains of it in his bed or under him, little bugger ate my super posh Victoria’s Secret knickers! He also delights in eating his own poo if you’re not quick enough to pick it up. I think he was overjoyed when he realised if he crouches to wee he can drink it like a yellow water fountain as he pees

Yes, I have a four legged sock thief (and knicker nicker) too. Trouble is they bury them in the garden, or worse behind the cushions of the settee for visitors to find .

70isaLimitNotaTarget I have a pair of your missing black socks! I bought a pack of 5 pairs of black socks to wear with my work shoes but there are 6 pairs of identical black socks in my sock drawer. I just assumed that it was the universe balancing itself - you know, for every action there is an equal reaction - and replacing the two missing socks I have from two other different pairs.

The mystery of missing socks is quite simple if you know quantum mechanics according to DH when we were discussing this phenomenon one time. It's clear that none of you, like me, is able grasp the concept because we're not clever like him. I was told it would be a total waste of his time to try and explain it to me given the mental gymnastics involved would blow my tiny mind. He wouldn't lie about something as important as that would he?

wellfuck

he sounds like a handful - but he can get away with it because he's so lush :)

whattodo

that's really funny about hidden knickers in the garden furniture :)

sock portal - yes I think you are responsible for the missing socks!

love all the messages! very reassuring

Ribbon I have thought about refusing to go to work without my black socks but I would just be told to re-wear an unwashed pair .

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It's the oddsockeaters!!!!

Thing is i buy everone black socks i still can get a matching pair many a time dh has had to stretch a childs pair of socks onto hos big manly feet