Unmatched Socks  

Sounds like socks are the least of your problems. How about you don't do the wash unless the kids and your husband keep their dirty sock together. The same way you fold them together is the same way they should go in the dirty clothes. Its my rule and it works great, if they don't want to do it then they will go barefoot. It will only once, I promise.

I also keep them in a small basket and go through them once in a while..But I also know that if it takes too long for a match to show up, it gets reused into somethng like a cleaning rag or just pitched..

I am afraid to say I am the typical guy. I leave my socks all over the place, well within a few different spaces anyways. My wife handles the laundry and the socks. She gets really mad at me. I don't do it to bother her, I am just lazy, I work all day and I am tired, and I just want to kick my socks off where ever I am somewhere. She hates it but she always takes care of it. I know many of you ladies are probably going to yell at me now. But I will say in my defence I have the best wife in the world who loves me inspite of the crap I pull.