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[ECBG]

I just found a sock that had dropped over the side of the dryer where it is against the wall.

[shaggygirl]

In my dresser drawer is an assortment of socks with no "buddy".  I expect that one of these days their other half will show up somewhere or other. Although some have been gone for a very long time and should probably be given up on. 

But it's never the old ones with the heels and toes thinned out that disappear, it's always the nice newer ones.

[Peaches McPhee]

This has happened once or twice in my life, the sock was found years later, when the machine broke down, and the repairman found a lone sock behind the barrel (it was not the cause of the breakdown).

Generally I find the missing sock under the bed or caught up in another item of clothing.

[SilleeMee]

For me it's the static socks in the dryer. They stick to the sides of the dryer drum and usually at the top where I don't expect to find them. 

[Nightowlz]

No not since I have always found them. LOL!!!

I have found them in the trash can, beside the washer, stuck on ledge things around inside dryer drum & inside pant leg or shirt sleeves. Find them in odd places when one gets in a load with other clothes.

We do have a ghost? 

We found 2 screws in the dining room. One was sitting under the chair upright. No way would that land like that if you dropped it. Someone had to put it there. There was another screw on the dining room table sitting upright.

DH put his refrigerator he keeps on the patio in our dining room during our cold temperatures.

When he puts it back outside this weekend he will check to see if the screws are from the underneath side?

We have no idea where they came from.

There have been other things that happen over the years which there is no other answer.

[VanSleepy]

I have that pile of lone socks, too @shaggygirl . Some day the other one will show up.

I was in a hotel once walking to the elevator, and an underpants fell out of my pant leg! I don't know how I didn't feel that when I put them on.

[itsmagic]

One time I went to work wearing slacks and someone came up to me and said I had something sticking out of one leg of my slacks.  Lo and behold it was a sock that got stuck (static cling) inside the slacks which I didn’t notice when putting them on.  Kind of embarrassing. 

[shaggygirl]

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@VanSleepy wrote:

I have that pile of lone socks, too @shaggygirl . Some day the other one will show up.

I was in a hotel once walking to the elevator, and an underpants fell out of my pant leg! I don't know how I didn't feel that when I put them on.

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@VanSleepy 

[handygal2]

Some lone socks have gotten out, never to return. I have no explanation for this. 

[PamfromCT]

At our house we have a simple way to solve the lone sock problem.  Always keep a pincushion, full of large safety pins.  Next to laundry hamper.  Rule is to pin pair of socks together before dropping in the laundry.  Sometimes the best solutions are that simple.  And I read that solution many years ago.  Who would have guessed?