We need to talk about socks

[JesusIsAnyNameFree]

Where do they actually go?!
I put in 5 pairs with the rest of the washing. I know I did. I looked at what I was doing. I was even thinking about the Bermuda triangle of socks when I was doing it so I know I made sure they went in with their friend.
Yet here I am, folding laundry and am missing the friend of 3 socks. 3! I'm the only one who has touched this laundry and I feel like I'm going crazy!

Please, someone, tell me the truth of the sock. I must know the truth. Is it aliens?

DD counted the socks in my odd sock bag just before Christmas.

There were 83.

That's utterly ridiculous. I've now bought these!

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It’s so ridiculous. I have an odd sock pile I keep for my very best ones that don’t have a friend as I live in hope they must turn up at some point . And yet they don’t . I don’t bother with less important stray socks and Eventually throw those away once clear can’t find their partner !

In our house we have underpants gnomes and sock gnomes... feisty little creatures that come out at night and steal socks and pants. Used to be just ours but also now our DC's. They're a bit like Borrowers but more cunning.

I know, it's absurd! I also keep an odd sock bag, and it's so full now I need to get a bigger one! It'll be so big and heavy soon I could probably hit someone over the head with it and knock them out. I guess it's good in case of a home invasion. I should keep it by the bed.

I might just put another wash on tonight, turn of all the lights and sit there, waiting, watching... maybe I'll use my odd sock bag to knock whatever magical creature is doing this out. Yes, that's what I'll do.

For a few years, I lived in a very busy household with 9 people and I was the main sock washer.. That's 18 socks per day!! I actually discovered that a surprising amount end up tucked into quilt covers!

It's not very well k own, but washing machines can generate sock-specific wormholes. The socks are then transported to a random roadside location. That's why you can often see single socks lying by the side of a road.

I just buy black socks. All black. I may have an odd number, but I don’t have odd socks.

They ran off with the teaspoons.

Once upon a time, my washing machine refused to drain. I did a thd logical things, but ended up having to call a washing machine person.
They managed to drain it and open the door.
One of the fin bits in the drum was loose and had chewed up and eaten about a million socks and eventually blocked the drain...

They go to the place of the Calpol syringes and laundry detergent balls.

@WomenAreBornNotWorn

They ran off with the teaspoons.

Jesus, good point. We just bought another 16 teaspoons as we were down to 3. It was a fresh set of 8 last year.

@Weedsnseeds1

This man clearly worked from the them. They will send people out to spread untruths to keep us from finding out where they really go.

I triumphantly found a sock missing for months in the campervan bedding last weekend. Such a joy to pair it back up again.

As a PP said, I think at least 90% are tangled up with bedding.

Yep inside quilt covers, in the corners.

It's good to know I'm not the only one who has odd sock bags!

Everyone else in the house wears pairs of socks, I only wear the odd socks. It makes life simpler!

It is amazing how they just disappear.
I end up chucking the lone socks after a year.!
It's one of life's big mysteries.

Sorry, I think I have all the calpol spoons. I fished about 7 out of the cutlery drawer over the weekend.
I wouldn't mind, but we haven't used any calpol for years, mine are both teenagers.

I do have a generous collection of odd socks, no idea what happens to the other. I'm embracing coordinating socks having given up finding the matching pairs for some of my favourites.

I am with @cardibach , Black socks are the only ones allowed to cross the threshold of this house

I wear odd socks too.

Odd socks regenerate into Tupperware lids that don’t fit any containers.

So upset about all the pairs of Calzedonia socks I lost at £5 a pair.

Thank God I stopped that nonsense.

I have all the lost laundry detergent balls. My little cupboard next to the washing machine where I keep the laundry bits vomited 28 onto the floor at the weekend.

I am fastidious about tracking down missing socks but I still have a little crate on one of the shelves in the airing cupboard with a surprisingly large number of sad singletons awaiting the return of their lost partners.

I've never lost a sock in the machine in my life. I use sock bags/laundry bags. Whole family is trained to use them too.

This is why I use net laundry bags