Where do all the socks disappear to...?

OMG!! i have no idea, but where ever they have all run off too, i wish they would come home. ever time it is time to put the socks together i need to have a drink. i can never ever find them all. there is always a few missing. it is just a pain in the butt. i spend more money on sock then i do on underweare for me and my family

it does on occaision.. and quite literally.. the dryer DID eat them!! in cleaning out the lint trap underneath the dryer and replacing the hose that leads outside for the vent.. there were numerous socks and underwear lodged inside!! betcha if you dismantle the vent system... youd find some of yer missing ones too!

Yes it happens a to me well not so much now as there is only my Clothes, what gets me is when my Knickers go missing, I swear the Washing Machine ears the Clothes you know

I've decided it isn't the dryer....this after a year or so with no dryer. The conclusion I came to is that the school clothes do not like getting up in the morning and going to school any more than the kids do so all the socks and underwear hide under the bed and between the couch cushions. The pants slip behind the pile of toys on the floor of the closet and the shirts crumple themselves in the corner under the desk. Jackets, hats, and gloves don't mind school so much as they often stay after school or go home with the bus diver.

It never happens to me with underwear, but socks, socks are the bain of my life. They go in the washing machine as a pair they come out as a pair, they go in the tumble dryer as a pair and come out divorced. The only time I end up with a pair is when I peg them outside. I just have a basket full of odd socks at the minute and never find the other ones so it is sock shopping for me in the next couple of weeks.

I have this conversation with my boyfriend pretty often. I just bought a brand new pack of 9 sock pairs right before we left to New Hampshire, which was July 4th. I came home, washed them, and now they are missing. It wasn't like they were just like every other socks, these ones were colored. I had blue ones, black ones, red ones, and grey ones. I have no idea where they went to! It's almost like my washer or dryer is a black hole. The same thing happens with underwear. I buy new socks about every 2 weeks and new underwear at least every 2 months. I'm considering buying this device I once thought to be a stupid idea. It's called Sock Pro, keeps socks together when you wash them.

Bella having raised an exclusively all male family, I can honestly and with out reservation tell you I hate dang sock issues.... In fact I finally just bought a clean sock hamper, when the socks come out of the drier I throw them into the hamper (except for mine which I mate up) then the boys and my husband have to hunt down and mate their own... It is the one laundry chore that literally drives me nuts. Of course many here in mylot can attest to the fact that nuts for me is a short putt, but still its frustrating trying to hunt down mates that hours later you find out that tthe mate was thrown away because it had a hole in it but the matching sock was thrown in the laundry :)) Nope not now :)))) MOM DOES NOT DO SOCKS!

I don't a washer or dryer eating them anymore, but today I went to put on a specific t-shirt and couldn't find it anywhere. So I looked for another one to put on thinking, I'll have to change my jeans too, and went looking for both. No go. O.k. I know I"m getting old and senile, so I change my mind and go looking for a pair of slacks and a shirt. Can't find them either. Finally, I ask the hubs if he's seen such and such. He tells me to look out our bedroom window. ????? But I look and there is everything I can't find! Several days ago I did laundry and put everything outside on the line to dry instead of heating up the bathroom with the dryer. I hardly ever use the line outside and had forgotten all about it! LOL So look out your bedroom window. You never know what you'll find! ROFL

I know what you mean, Bella. Even while I'm sorting clothes to get them ready to take them to the laundromat, I wind up with at least one sock missing. The bad thing about it is that it's usually a sock that is patterned or a solid color like green or blue or whatever. Never a white one!!!! There must be a sock monster in my closet. That's where I keep the basket that I put my dirty clothes in.

You bet this happens. Sometimes the washer eats clothes - especiall socks. I'll carefully put them all in and make sure there are complete pairs, only to discover that a sock is missing as I put them in the dryer. Sometimes the dryer eats the socks, though. Again, as I take the clothes from the washer to the dryer, I'll match up the socks and they'll all be there...until the dryer stops. I used to have a friend who said it was the laundry monster.

yes dear every night before bed i go round hunting for my sons undergarment and socks..and finding the right pair is indeed tough..so now while picking the clothes i tie the socks pair together s that they dont get misplaced and the undergarment goes right into the undergarment bag this has helped me lot..Good Luck Hunting

My socks go missing along with my spoons O_O the sock and spoon fairy has robbed me yet again. Anyone have any trapping ideas for the fairies?

o.0 maybe things get misplaced by the person who does the laundry or the person who irons them. try searching for them at your parents or siblings closets. or someone else is stealing your clothes from outside like when you hung then to dry.

It trully is a mystery and a funny one at that. My kids lose so much clothes its agravating at times . My daughter espically she is the queen of loseing her socks and shirts. Oh mom i dont know where there going. I hear that alot. i think the shirts are lent out to friends but i am sure she is not lending out socks , where those are going i have no idea. lol its a mystery

yes that is an age old question, I think ever since there was washing machines people have wondered where the socks, I have never come across anyone who can answer that question....maybe one of out Mylot family will be able to solve the mystery for us all...

Don't you know that there is a sock monster that lives under your washer and dryer? He sneaks out during the night to get one sock from any pair. He only takes one never 2, just one. You can try to fool him by leaving a sock that doesn't have a match any more but he knows so you can't fool him. Once in a while he will eat some underwear for dessert.

It the underpants gnomes!!!! Get underpants make profit!!(sorry another south park moment)I actually took my washer and dryer apart and found a bunch there lol. The dryer had to be cleaned out of all the lint, and when I found all of the socks I decided to check the washer as well!!

All the time but it isn't my dryer. My kids like to hide their clothes especially socks. It seems like I go to Walmart weekly for new socks! Ughhh!

Hello bellaofchaos, Thank you, thank you, thank you! My faith in MyLot has been restored today. You have addressed a topic which has been bothering me for weeks now. I have 14 (yes I have just counted them!) unmatched single socks and the number is growing every week. The matching socks are not under the bed and are not in the washing basket. My theory is that there is a problem with the washing machine and that they are somehow being sucked out, but I am not sure. I will speak to the house-caretaker about this, although I am sure he will laugh at me :-) I did find two at the weekend, which were hidden inside a duvet which had been washed, but that is small consolation for the 14 missing. Anyway it is probably a good excuse to get new socks, which is never a bad thing! Happy sock-hunting. Umart

It is funny my hubby's socks are complete before i put them in the washers but after when i try to fold them and organized in the closet.Some has no pairs anymore.I wonder where it go.