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I FOUND MY SOCK!

travelr712 posted on Sep 11, 2008 | views: 163 | Tags: socks, socksy, laundry room black hole
I couldn't believe it! I bought a new pack of socks last month. 3 weeks later one was missing! How can you buy a new pack of socks and lose one after only 3 weeks?
 
Well, I took my slip cover off the couch to wash it a bit ago, and decided to wash my sheets too so it would make a full load. and when i took the sheet off the bed, THERE WAS MY SOCK!
 
I'm so happy! (Oh my god, it only takes a sock to make me happy? I need to get a life!)


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  • secretlife said on Sep 11, 2008....
    I just pulled up my conversations and saw this!
    made me laugh because i have THE WORST time with socks!
     
    i cannot tell you how many mismatched socks I have nor where the heck they go to except that since my oldest went to college, and i've had the chance to clean under her bed, i do believe there will be more matches now!
  • botoni said on Sep 11, 2008....
    Hav ing suffered from missing sock syndrome for many years I have finally solved the problem by purchasing only the exact same socks all the time.  At least then there is never more than one that doesnt have a mate.......Gawd, I'm pathetic.
  • travelr712 said on Sep 11, 2008....
    that's exactly why i keep the other one secret, i just KNOW someday i'll find that match, and then if i'd thrown away the other one, i'd still be stuck with one sock, and that would just be sad.
     
    i tried that strategy botoni, but when i go to get more, they never have the same style anymore. guess i joined your pathetic club, huh? :-P
  • secretlife said on Sep 11, 2008....
    well about 6 weeks ago, i took my 1/2 laundry basket of mismatched socks and tried once again to make matches happen.
     
    i did quite poorly and decided i was going to empty the basket in the trash and start over.
     
    my fear is that now that i'm cleaning my daughter's room, i'm gonna have another 1/2 basket of mismatched socks......if only i'd waited a few more weeks to toss them!!!!
  • travelr712 said on Sep 11, 2008....
    ain't that always the way secret? and to think i almost threw that other one away!
  • kelly said on Sep 11, 2008....
    It lasted a whole 3 weeks?

    But seriously, this is what the internet was made for.  Posting about socks.
  • beyondtheveil said on Sep 12, 2008....
    trav- I wish botoni wouldn't call it pathetic because I do the same thing. I buy nothing but white cotton crew socks. There's very little difference one buy to the next, so I don't worry about it. No one can see them anyway. 
  • travelr712 said on Sep 12, 2008....
    yeah kelly, al gore even put it in his speach; 'I created the internet, so people all over our country could talk about their socks'. they cut the last part out in all the sound bites... :-D
     
    well that's a good point beyond, who looks at other people's socks? i guess for me, if i wear two different types, my feet feel funny all day and it throws me off.
  • fragglesrock said on Sep 12, 2008....

    when travelr wears two different types of socks it throws him off so bad that he can only walk in circles!!!!!!!!

    secret - i'm clutching my sides and laughing, I also had an entire laundry basket full of mis-matchers!!! I recently went through it hoping that the mates had somehow miraculously found eachother in my absense.  For me, it's like, no matter how clean my place is (ok, not very), but even if it were...I have a whole basket of socks that are living without their mate and it niggles at me!!!

     

  • travelr712 said on Sep 12, 2008....
    they don't call me dizzy for nothin, fraggles :-D
     
    the real gain out of all this is, for the last week, i've been wondering what that strange lump under the sheets was while i was trying to sleep, now it's not there anymore :-D
  • botoni said on Sep 12, 2008....
    Beyond.......I'm pathetic in the nicest way so dont be worried.
  • Zayda said on Sep 12, 2008....
    [joins the club]


    I have the worst time with socks, especially the little man's socks. I think I have half a laundry basket of mateless socks. I find a few eventually, under the couch, between the couch cushions, under the little man's bed, behind the little man's bed, under the bean bag chair.


    Apparently, the little guy hates to wear socks, so he removes them as soon as possible when he gets home, and they end up wherever they happen to land. I found one behind the television cabinet one day. :/


    My mateless socks, on the other hand, can sometimes find their mates in the little man's sock drawer. Apparently, my hubby cannot discern the difference between my "no-show" or "anklet" socks that I wear while running and the little man's white socks. I think I might have to get the hubby's eyes checked for that problem. Or just ban him from sock-wrangling duties.
  • Fallyn said on Sep 12, 2008....
    pickers post made me cry....and this one gave me the serious giggles. ...it's gonna be some kind of day today.

    you do need a life......but i have one question....how exactly did your sock get THERE?
  • travelr712 said on Sep 12, 2008....
    botoni - pathetically nice, does that work for getting women? :-P
     
    welcome to the no socks club z, leave your contribution by the door :-P but c'mon, is there really a difference between little man's white socks and your no-shows?
     
    you sure you want me to answer that fallyn? :-P it was in the sheet when i washed it last time and i didn't see it. it just got put on when i made the bed.
  • Fallyn said on Sep 12, 2008....
    ah, yeah...i've done that.
    once i went to work...and a pair of my daughters underwear fell out the bottom of my pant leg. .....right in front of a client.
    talk about embarrassing.
  • Battycat said on Sep 12, 2008....
    :-D I'm always loosing socks.
  • fragglesrock said on Sep 12, 2008....
    ooh ooh! my cousin and i were walking through Meijer together one time and she was wearing my winter coat, she stuck her hand in the pocket and pulled out a pair of my underwear that i had stuffed in my pocket (no worries, they were a clean pair that had fallen off the basket when i had been to the laundromat last) still funny though!
  • uniquely-ironic said on Sep 12, 2008....
    LOL and OMG!  you do need more of a life if finding stray socks is news worthy. (sorry)  I combat the sock monster by buying a dozen pairs of identical socks.  If I lose one, no big deal.  I do, however, get all atwitter when I'm digging through my closet and clothes I had thought went MIA are just shoved into dark corners.
  • Fallyn said on Sep 12, 2008....
    fraggle.....i get little socks in my pocket all the time.
  • fragglesrock said on Sep 12, 2008....
    Fallyn - that would've been mortifying, BUT, it coulda been worse...coulda been an old pair of your own "back up" grungies (hoping other people have those too)
  • uniquely-ironic said on Sep 12, 2008....
    or a pair of hubby's skid mark underwear.  Ewwwww!
  • Fallyn said on Sep 12, 2008....
    fraggle...yup. i've got those...that would have been horrible.

    UI EWWWWWW.
    how come men do that? i mean SERIOUSLY!? my ex had the NASTIEST underwear imaginable.
  • polarheart said on Sep 12, 2008....
    lol! Trav, socks play an important role. . .what is one without the other if you have two feet?  I understand completely :-))
  • fragglesrock said on Sep 12, 2008....

    uniquely & fallyn

    I have two kids, both boys, I spend my days among skid marks.  I don't understand it, I have theories, I'll keep them to myself ;)

  • travelr712 said on Sep 12, 2008....
    fallyn - did you have to explain what your daughter's underwear were doing in your pant leg in the first place? :-P
     
    batty - i have a theory that the vortex from the heat and spinning action of the dryer creates a wormhole to another universe, and in that universe is a planet which on a very high mountaintop, there is a HUGE pile of our lost socks!
     
    fraggle - you carry a spare pair, just in case? :-P
     
    ui - no, you're right. it became painfully obvious to me that i've been living my entire life inside a computer, so i'm in the process of remedying that situation. btw, you just totally stole my heart when you said 'all atwitter'. NOBODY says that anymore! prepare to have me follow you around like a puppy dog now! :-D (just kidding)
     
    oh polar, that is HILLARIOUS!
     
    i'm going to ignore the skidmark convo... :-P
  • Fallyn said on Sep 12, 2008....
    fraggles....i have no theories......i'm just glad i have girls. :P

    trav.....yeah....it was attached to a dryer sheet so it was pretty self explanitory.
  • RollingC said on Sep 12, 2008....
    For years I was convinced that the laundry room had a black hole that was sucking in loose socks.   I swear I would loose them to the sock demon or something. 
    I've gotten better over the years specially since we downsized to a smaller house but I still find the occasional loose sock with no mate lying around.
    Rc
  • GrapeKoolaid said on Sep 12, 2008....
    To join this, of course...


    Your sock was apprehended while trying to escape.  What was it doing under the sheet?  Do you have any abnormal sleep habits? 
  • travelr712 said on Sep 12, 2008....
    my god grape, is this what your country is really like? this was HILLARIOUS!
  • queenparanoia said on Sep 13, 2008....
    dude... next time tidy up your stuff... lol... ;-)
  • travelr712 said on Sep 13, 2008....
    i gotta do a more thorough search for my socks qpdoll :-)

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