Ok, I have one question that no doubt many of you will have thought/asked/shouted/screamed to the heavens about.

WHERE DO THEY GOOOOOOOOOO? :mad:

At Christmas I got about 7 new pairs of socks to add to my constantly dwindling supply. At present I haven't a single 'pair' of socks in my drawer and whenever I search the washing basket there are none to be found.

If it wasn't so infuriating at 7.30am in the morning when you're in a rush to get out the door it'd be quite funny.

Any theories anyone? :confused:

The washer eats them.:D It does it to annoy you, and only eats one from each pair:D

No i have it on good authority that all the socks are in the same place as the missing tea spoons and hair accsessories (if your a women that is!). You see we all have little men with a perverse fetish for random household items. Its best not to challenge them as they have been know to attack if threatened.

I think they transmute into coat hangers.

Nomme

I agree, I have a huge bundle of single socks....once a year I find the other half to one usually in a bag somewhere or under something or behind something, but more often than never I have no idea where they are. Frustrating!

What you need to do is go buy 20 identical pairs of socks - then at the end of the year even with your washer eaing one sock from each pair you still have 10 wearable pairs :)

Yep buy all black ones, and they all end up different shades, and you can never find two the same. What amazes me is that i can buy 10 pairs and i only get to wear five before they all disappear. So buy more and the same happens again. Think it may be that Fletch nicks them.

Coat hangers - Nomme??? You can always find one of them.:D

I sometimes end up with socks that aren't mine. Maybe I have some of yours....!

What's needed is "Sock Swap".

I think that everyone should take their odds socks to the next forum meeting at the CRB. It will be a bit like swapping football stickers when you were a kid...

"Got."
"Got."
"Got."
"Need... will ya swap you for a slightly off-white tube sock and a "Simpsons" novelty present sock?!?"

I've got a stripey sock with Zippy on it and a yellow sock from Gap. Willing to trade for a black wooley sock with lycra and a woven pattern down the side and a white sock with a blue heel and toe (sports sock material).

I think theres some serious research to be done here - is you washing machine a righty or a lefty? Get 6 (or some other even number) of socks with left and right printed on them, at the end of each day scrunch a pair up and throw in the washing machine then perform your wash as usual and fins out whether your washing machine / sock black-hole / sock-napper has a preference for right or left socks...

I once told my sister, in answer to this question when she posed it herself, that there was a man who worked in our laundrette whose job it was to sneak round the back of each washer and nick odd socks.

She believed me, or at least she said things like "No, surely not, there cant be" rather than "dont be stupid"

She was about 25 at the time

Its not just the socks thats single :cry: . One day, I will find the person with the other halves of all my pairs of socks and then we'll live happily ever after.


The socks are trying to bring us together! :)


Edd




p.s. If any single young ladies have mysteriously discovered a number of odd socks appearing in their washing machines - pm me ;)

My dog runs off with most of my socks and tries to bury them in the garden, i'm just hoping a sock tree will grow and then I will never have to buy another pair. I have so many left socks, the right ones go missing then the left ones get holes in them on the big toe!

You know everyone laughed at me about 3 years ago when the internet business boom was going off.

I had a brilliant idea for an online business

sockmatch.com

You send in a phot of your odd socks and we buy in individual socks and send them to you, for a fee.

No longer would losing a single sock of a pair mean you could never wear them again as you could order just ONE sock to be devlivered to your door.

I think i would have made a fortune :(

Wilf