Why?

you're lucky that you lose them only in your dryer :)) i lose them... i don't even know where exactly i lose them... but the main idea is i never have socks :|

Where do the socks go? Some say that dryers are doorways to another dimension. Or that there is some fairy or some such entity that takes them. Over time you can retrieve other 'strays' and maybe match them up. Good luck with this mystery.

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The sock gnomes that live in there eat them! Didn't you know?! ;)

i don't know! i think maybe theres something going on in that dryer that even we as intelligent people cannot comprehend. sock munchers, they have a voracious appetite when subjected to heat, but they also need variety. they will only eat one sock at a time. because they are not wastefull they will consume the whole sock before moveing on to the next, something of a different flavor, this is why we only lose one matching sock at a time

Mine very seldom seems to make it the dryer. I think the washer ate them first....lol

People always talk about losing socks in the dryer... I'm 50 years old and I have never lost a sock in the dryer, the washer, or anywhere. How does one lose a silly sock????