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[Yahooey]

you know socks can walk, right?

they have a heel and toes - 

[Ladybug724]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@gellen wrote:
I just took clothes out of the dryer and onevsock is missing. My daughter was here and she said that the washer apparently ate it. I have checked everywhere (it’s a slow day for me). I thought it had gotten mixed up with other things in drawers. Anyway just curious if the washer possibility had happened to anyone else. I am focusing on this today instead of the much more important issues out there 😀We had a virtual teaching morning which is always hard. Sock hunting is a good diversion. Thanks for letting me ramble on.

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@gellen 

YES .... and I once read the explanation from some expert and it made a lot of sense.

Most people wash their socks loose with everything else.  When the spin cycle begins, all the clothing spins around as the wash water is drained.  Lone socks are pressed as they go around and often elongate (think of a long, skinny cloth worm)  and spin like mad, often going out the pipe with the water.  Gone forever.

Solutions?   Either tie socks together so the knot is too large to go out the pipe .... or throw matched pairs loose in a mesh laundry bag.  They will wash in the cycle, but can't get out of the mesh bag, so they never escape. 

Works every time.

I remember reading this explanation and thinking how obvious .... I now use mesh bags for socks and have never lost another one.   

HTH

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@Tinkrbl44! I love the mesh bag idea! I'm going to totally do that - thank you!

[Infinite Mom 47]

@chickenbutt  I loose things all the time.  I bought a 2021 calendar last Fall.  I still can't find it. Can't find my charger for the little sweeper, so now can't use it.  Things just vanish.  

[tototwo]

Yes!   Funny thread, btw.

My son's infant socks.  Good grief, they were only about 2-3 inches long.  That's when I bought my first lingerie bag -- used to put all his baby stuff inside the bag before I put them in the washer.  Never lost any of his tiny clothes after that.   Now, 45 years later, I still use a lingerie bag for all my dainties every washload. 

I know that old Whirlpool washer is out at the bottom of some landfill somewhere.... and its interior mechanism is still full of little bitty cotton socks!

[depglass]

I safety pin my socks together at the top, then leave the pin in one sock when I fold them.  Since I wear jeans all the time the pin is not seen.  DH wears those cheapie white socks and cares less when one goes missing since he has so many.  So his are not pinned.  Talk about stuff getting caught outside the drum, I once had some problem and DH took the panel under the drum off the front of the machine.  A nickel had gotten out of the drum and landed flat right on the top of the pipe.  What are the odds?  This is a front loader so here I was thinking that problem only happened with top loaders.  

[MalteseMomma]

@judy0330 

Judy,that was soooooo funny.Thanks for the laugh today!!! 

[FiddleDeeDee]

@gellen I was told (as a kid), that missing socks go to the "Hose Zone". I've told my kids that too. We never find the socks again so, it must be where they've gone.

[Still Raining]

Never knew they could escape the drum.  I just wait it out.  They seem to go walk about, but return.  Like hangers, sometimes there are lots and sometimes none to be found.

[Lindsays Grandma]

Oh goodness, I think the majority of us has lost more than one sock to our washing machines.  I have, and to this day, they haven't been found. 

[silkyk]

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@judy0330 wrote:

Many years ago my mother had a repairman come because her washing machine wasn't working.  It turned out that a pair of panties had gotten stuck somewhere she couldn't see.  The repairman said "Boy lady -- that must have been some party!"  Let's just say that my mother did not find that remark particularly funny!!  😂  

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LOL! She didn't but I sure do! Thank you for an early morning giggle. My kind of repair man. Service with a smile (or a good lol).