Where do all socks go?

Hi bounce58, This happens all the time Maybe the experiments with the Large Hadron Collider did go a bit wrong and the result sucked our poor little socks away to God knows where. I did here that a simple peg can Save Our Socks from this phenomena. So SOS everyone

this discussion really make me laugh so hard... i had heard about this missing socks discussion before quite a while ago here but in another version... to be honest with you, i and my hubby never lost any socks before when we do our laundry... may be because we are not using drying machine to dry our laundry... so may be your theory about the conspiracy between the socks company and the drying machine company might be right... take care and have a nice day...

Hey bounce! I think that question will always be one that will just keep going unanswered forever! I don't know where those socks go! I think everyone asks that question! I don't think that there is anyone on earth who hasn't lost a sock somewhere at sometime or more than one! It is one of the most annoying things ever! I will never understand how you can put socks into the washer and dryer and still always come up missing one of a pair! Where do they go? That is going to be a mystery that will remain unanswered to the rest of our lives!

that is a good question and probably why that most of my socks that i have are of the same color, so if i lost one i would have so many of the same kind that it wouldn't really matter. how about this one did you have so many socks that you accumulated over the years that you had so many that you didn't realize that you actually had that many. This is kind of funny when i moved i was gathering up some of my clothes and i guess since my mom got me socks a lot of years for christmas i did not realize how many i actually had and i had so many that i could actually fill up an entire drawer with just the socks i was amazed that i had so many of them. I needed to get rid of some of them, but since i had so many it really didn't matter that i had to get rid of some of them and i don't think i will need any more any time soon and if the dryer monster needs a sacrifice i have plenty for it to have.

Bounce you are asking us to solve a mystery larger than the pyramids. The sock monster seems to live at everyones house. When all the kids were little I tried those little rings that are supposed to hold them together in the wash. I still had missing mates. I have actually surrendered to the sock monster and have a drawer full of mis matched dust rags.

I haven't lost one sock since I started doing my own laundry, so I think there's a little troll living in my fathers washing machine. It collects socks to use as clothes in the winter. It doesn't like wearing the same outfit more than once, so it'll only take one of each pair.

The sock monster steals them as soon as they enter the washing machine. The only way I have found to defeat this greedy critter is to put all the socks into a pillow case before putting them into the wash, but even then the sock monster manages to undo the bag sometimes.

i totally agree with you, they run away. the place i find they go take a holiday is under beds, so that you have to wash them again before you wear them and they can run again. mine are getting holes in them.

At my house the socks get Jason'd. Jason's one of our cats and he walks off with them in his mouth...

my mum always told me that odd socks were the larval form of wire coat hangers. i'm sure ball point pen lids and things down the back of the sofa were part of the life cycle somehow too. i've taken to buying all my socks the same so even if i lose one out of 10 pars i still have one that goes with it

I like to think that my dryer is a magical portal to a place where socks can live happily with each other, so every once in a while one sneaks through the portal and disappears to...wherever they can be happy? Honestly, I have no idea, but it certainly defies all physics, doesn't it? XD It's like all the principles that apply to the rest of the world do not apply to socks. And I especially like when one sock disappears from the dryer only to turn up a week later in another load. I have no idea how that one works, but every once in a while it happens.

When I was growing up, I always heard my grandmother say that "it went down the rat hole." At that time I wasn't really sure what that meant, I was always afraid that there was a big mouse hole behind our washer or dryer and that the mice would come up and steal the socks. I guessed they were usinging them for bedding or something. Now I am certain it is becuase my kids can never get their laundry in the laundry basket and if you were to check under their bed there has to be at least 10 pairs of mismatched socks under there. I bet my mom would of said the same about me when I was growing up too. I really enjoyed your conspiracy theory between the sock makers and dryer manufacturers. I knew someone had to be behind this whole sock disappering situation.

Well I have two theories, one serious and one not so serious. Socks tend to drop in the oddest places. Sometimes they got lost from the clothes basket to the laundry. Other times, they get lost the other way. They could be just somewhere, perhaps dropped on the floor, forgotten somewhere. It has to be someplace. The other less serious theory is that there is a vortex that opens up whenever laundry is done. There is some inter dimensional creature that feasts on socks. Therefore it steals them and devours them. Implausible perhaps, but it would explain why socks tend to go missing and never found.

I haven't lost one sock since I started doing my own laundry, so I think there's a little troll living in my fathers washing machine. It collects socks to use as clothes in the winter. It doesn't like wearing the same outfit more than once, so it'll only take one of each pair.

I have been lucky. I haven't lost any socks . But then again, i don't put my socks in the dryer. i think it Is the dryer.

i really hate when socks get lost in the dryer but more often than not the socks are hiding in my daughters' bedrooms (and only one sock has made it down to the washing machine!) needless to say, we have a lot of odd socks around the house. good thing my youngest daughter is crafty! she loves to make sock animals out of random socks!

I think I've lost one sock recently. I am not sure, where did it go missing, but there are two main suspects in this case. One is my washer, the other is the place behind my house where the drying ropes are. I think that wind tore that sock off the rope and that's how it went missing.

I have the long lost secret to missing socks. They are going down the washing machine drain.How can I be so sure? One didn't quite make it out. It locked up the water pump.When the water pump quits, the washer won't empty.So you bail water then try to figure out what is wrong. I found the sock stuck in the water pump. Hmmm??? I wonder how many just go right on through.

Missing socks! You have a unique discussion. Maybe they just simply want to hide and have fun hiding for a while. LOL

I agree that mice are the culprits. They use them to build their nests. Besides mice, sometimes we drop the socks here and there. Sometimes, we don't get both of them when we prepare to wash.