Disappearing Socks

Submitted by Catfish on May 14, 2008 - 6:04pm. laundry | lost socks

If you have a house that you live in, you probably have a thief residing right under your four walls that you can't do anything about. I know I have one; I can't prove it yet, but I know it's there.

Last year, before I went to NYC for consulting assignment, I went out and bought some socks so that I could bring my total number of pairs of socks up to 21. Not that we didn't do laundry each week, but sometimes it would be a very short weekend before I was on the road again, so we didn't always get the clean laundry folded on a weekly basis.

Two weeks ago I did all the laundry, and went looking for all my socks to fold up. Lo and behold, I only had 9 pair of socks, and 7 individual socks that went to nothing. I asked my wife if socks might be hiding elsewhere, and she said not that she could think of.

But I knew where they were, and there's not much I can do about it. My washing machine is eating my socks, and I think my wife knows it. Not that I think she's a collaborator, but I think she didn't want to tell me because she thought I might do something weird like go into the laundry area and conduct my own version of a strip search. Not that I have a history for such things, but my dad did take apart a dishwasher, saying it was going to clean it and put it back together, and, well, that didn't quite work out (not only that, but Cosby stole the story from us).

Anyway, I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Maybe I need to adopt what my wife does, the other reason I think she's in on it. When she washes her socks, she rolls them up just a little bit so it makes a small ball on one end. I've always thought that kept both socks from getting totally clean, but now I'm thinking there's a method to her madness.

Sneaky; both the machine, and the wife. I think they're out to get me.

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Hey---my dryer eats socks

Submitted by ammorton on May 15, 2008 - 6:02pm.

I'm telling ya....there is something about the washer and dryers, lol.

I have looked for these socks and even in the dumbest places, and I cant find them.

It has got to be the dryer, or we have a sock ghost in the house.

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Not sure, Ammorton,...

Submitted by Catfish on May 16, 2008 - 5:13pm.

where the dryer would hide them. That, plus wouldn't you think iyou'dd start to smell burning somewhere?

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I know..it makes no sense to be the dryer but

Submitted by ammorton on May 16, 2008 - 5:47pm.

what else could it be? It just has me bewildered is all I know.
Besides, the dryer element is encased other than the small holes on the drum of the dryer where the heat actually comes thru. Only lint can really get into that area. Now if you have a gas dryer....don't know what to tell ya.

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That's why I say,...

Submitted by Catfish on May 16, 2008 - 6:24pm.

I believe it's the washer, because underneath the agitator there's enough space for socks to actually slip under and get compressed somewhere.

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Personally I think it's my cats fault!

Submitted by Sassys on May 16, 2008 - 1:56pm.

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My cats eat socks! Clean or dirty they munch on them!

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Can't blame the cats, Sassys,...

Submitted by Catfish on May 16, 2008 - 5:10pm.

since we have no pets. Course, I did start off by telling my wife I thought we might have a ghost, but it seems that freaks her out so I can't say it; heck.

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Well catfish here's a theory for you...

Submitted by Sassys on May 17, 2008 - 2:29pm.

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It's Wal-Mart!! They build socks that disintegrate on purpose so that the masses of one socked individuals will buy more. Now a truly resourceful person would build packs of left and right socks only...Hmmm get rich quick for sure!

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Now there's a theory, Sassys,...

Submitted by Catfish on May 17, 2008 - 4:16pm.

that I can get behind. Those folks would be sneaky enough to make something that looks good but disintegrates pretty quickly. And the last batch of socks I got were from Walmart, so,... gasp!

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The sox can end up...

Submitted by huttriver10 on May 16, 2008 - 9:09pm.

the hose.

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But to get around the problem...

Submitted by huttriver10 on May 16, 2008 - 9:10pm.

buy sox all one colour.

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My socks are all one color,...

Submitted by Catfish on May 16, 2008 - 9:13pm.

and I've thought about that hose thing also, but at a certain point, after so many years, wouldn't their be feedback in some fashion into the house?

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The Borrowers

Submitted by xingtiao on May 20, 2008 - 8:55pm.

I've often wondered about the mystery of the missing socks. It is one of the least explored but most often thought about areas of the paranormal and it wasn't even on the X-Files (was it?). One of the best studies of the matter was the wonderful set of British books about the Borrowers, tiny little people that borrowed things from houses. I wouldn't mind betting that there is a whole clan of Borrowers sleeping comfortably in your socks right now (because you Americans are all in bed when I'm writing this). It's either that or bad fairies. It is quite clear in the literature that there are both good and bad fairies and I'm sure the bad ones would be capable of stealing socks. They would have good fairy reasons of course but it is such a nuisance isn't it?

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I can tell you, Xingtiao,...

Submitted by Catfish on June 15, 2008 - 4:59pm.

this missing socks angle was never on X-Files, but I remember a comic strip where the main character decided he was going to start washing his socks by hand because he thought the machine was eating his socks. He put a regular load in the machine, and when he went to retrieve it there was a note on top that said "Stop fooling around; send more socks."

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