Before school started this year I bought a total of 50 pairs of black athletic crew socks for my 2 boys. That is a total of 100 individual socks. Why can't I find more that 10 socks (5 pair) a week to wash? My boys gather up their dirty clothes and put them in a hamper themselves. I generally go through their room looking for clothes that they have missed. I can't imagine were those socks are going. Last year my boys would remove their socks in the van on the way home from school so I had to check the van for socks last year. They are not doing that this year. The dryer is not eatting them because they make it to the washer much less the dryer. A month ago, I purchased 2 more bags for 10 pair each for a additional 20 pair or 40 individual socks and still can't find socks. ARGG! What are they doing with them??????? Just frustrated! Not really looking for and answer from you moms!
Your answers have been fun. I wish I could blame it on the dog, but we don't have any pets at all because my husband dislikes them. The poor guy grew up without a pet ever and doesn't know what to do with one. I'm glad my mom has a dog so that my kids are not totally deprived of pets. These socks are a little big for the washer to eat and I personally think that they have not made it to the washer either. We check the air vents every few months anyway and the most I have ever found in them was crayons, trash and tinker toys, but no socks. They do clean like boys, maybe its time to dive under the bed and pull all that crude out and empty the toy box. I did find a shirt in the toy box just a little while ago while hunting up denims to wash. Ugg! I hate to even go there. I just cleaned out my daughters toy box over Christmas break. Ugg! Maybe because I'm overweight, but I hate sitting and crawling around on the floor. My back and knees kill me for hours afterward. Its a miracle that I even fit under the boys bed to pull that crude out. Dieting is useless until I can get my thyroid disease under control. Hopefully that will be soon since I just got sent to a endocrinologist a few weeks ago. Maybe we will get somewhere now! I lost 78 lbs between my second child and third and thought it would be just as easy after the third. Wrong!!!!! No matter how low I cut my calories, I was still gaining. Now I am back where I started almost 6 years ago before I started that diet. ARGG!
OHHHHHHHHHHH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!! The GREAT SOCK CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!!! I don't know where the H - - -, the frickin' things go,but go they do!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps they run away........being on boys feet all of the time cannot be an easy job!!!!!!!!!!!
I jsut asnwered a post I think that was a second to this one...
I buy socks by the dozens because daughter is a cheerleader and has to wear the white no show socks.
I swear my washer eats them
I put them in a laundry bag (the mesh bag) and have lost less that way. She is pretty good about getting them to me... my issue is the washer eating them.
GOod luck
Have you checked the vents. :p
With my kids the socks get lost because they wander outside in them and then realize they are dirty and take them off. I find them in the lawnmower more times than I can count.
In the car.
In the basement.
In a junk drawer in their room.
Shoved under the bed.
Wait, black crew socks? Are you sure they aren't throwing them away. My kids would do that because they hate anything but the liner type that everyone else wears.
Do you have a dog?
Our dog eats socks. 2-10 a week on average. Of course, you find those... in the yard. (They come out one way or the other).
If you only have 3/4 of the washer filled, but use the largest water setting, those small little socks float up and over the 'basket' of the washer... which will eventually break your washer. How do I know this? You know when cute, itty bitty thongs were in? (Yeah, that was over a decade ago for me too, but still)... our washer broke from my damn underwear, thank goodness my husband figured it out... there were baby socks in there too! Your best bet: throw them all in a pantyhose laundry bag before washing... if they disappear after that, you're sh!t outta luck ;)
ROFLMAO!!!
(I'm sorry but 10 out of 100--that's a mystery!)
My dog is eating them! Literally!! I can't keep socks for my daughter because she takes them off wherever she happens to be and the dog gobbles them up. She'll steal them from my daughter's hamper if I'm not looking, too.
She also eats my socks and my husband's socks. I just the other morning cleaned out two vomited socks from her crate.
(And yes, I know how dangerous it is for her to ingest that kind of thing. I do my best to keep them from her - picking them up, buring them under clothes in the hamper, etc. Not perfect, though. We've been lucky, however, and never had a problem. She throws them up or we have (possible TMI) to pull them out the other end after they get stuck...)
Maybe you should offer a reward for who ever finds the most socks and brings them to you!
If you find your socks please let me know so that I can look for mine is the same/similar place.
I really hate socks!!!
Yep - I'd suggest a bed cleaning -- or under the sofa!
I think maybe my kids' socks (and some of my husband's) go to the same place that yours do! Bahaha!
Love this post!
Dawn
I don't know if anyone else has answered with this response yet because I haven't read them all but my husband cleaned out the filter on our front loader washing machine and there were 6 socks in there!!!! I swear the poor dryer has been taking the blame for way too long!!!! HAHA
It's the sock monster...duh! hehe! I have had the same single socks sitting in a walmart bag, waiting for their mates for so long they no longer fit my kids! I think what I will do this summer is fill em w/ flour and let the kids have a flour fight! (outside, of course!) And if you find that nasty sock monster, tell him he owes me!
They aren't taking it off in the van anymore... thus, they are taking it off everywhere... else. Which means, it could be anywhere. Even outside who knows where or in some lost and found bin.
My son never remembers where he puts his socks. Or it comes off inadvertently and then he "forgets" where it was. And then, I will find one sock here... and the other side in a totally different place far away from that other side of the sock. Or under a sofa. Or tangled up in the pants leg hem of his pants because it'd come off while... he was taking off his pants etc. And well he didn't know, so he didn't tell me.
However, my daughter, will always leave her taken off socks, in one place. Because she is that way.
Well my littlest throws everything in the garbage so I have to constantly look in the garbage for things. Especially socks since she hates to wear them. She is always taking them off and putting her shoes on her bare feet.
The oldest I have found them everywhere from her closet, under her bed, mixed in her blankets, under the dresser, even in her bookshelf. Kids!!!
Start checking couch and chair cushions, when my son was younger he would stick his feet in between the cushions and occasionally the socks would stay in between. As far as cleaning under the beds, give the kids a broom and tell them you want everything swept out from under the beds. I understand how painful it can be sitting on the floor, so use a chair, I use a folding chair, they are shorter and younger and can lay down on the floor so much easier. You will be surprised what hides under the bed and socks are so small they hide very easily. Good Luck!
