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applegrove

(132,222 posts)
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:07 PM Dec 2025

For my first time ever I put a single sock on the laundry, not part of

a pair. I will let you know if it comes out a singleton when I do my laundry. 1/6 of the time I get an odd number of socks back from the laundry I do, and I always put in pairs. This is science. A hypothesis.

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ret5hd

(22,502 posts)
1. you are an absolute genius.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:10 PM
Dec 2025

i wonder if some dryers are “takers” and some are “givers”?

Floyd R. Turbo

(32,913 posts)
2. Tell me it's not pink! A lone pink sock just appeared in my dryer. I don't own any pink socks!😨
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:15 PM
Dec 2025

2naSalit

(102,808 posts)
14. Or maybe...
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:20 PM
Dec 2025

It was able to call its mate out from the secret hiding place inside the dryer!

CTyankee

(68,203 posts)
7. I am struggling with this. I have a gazillian socks and none of them seem to match.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:41 PM
Dec 2025

Should I wash/dry them all and give them to an organization that provides them for those who are needy? The problem I feel with that is I am giving cast off socks and should be providing new ones.

Whadya think?

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
12. I keep those lost socks in a bag and sometimes the match shows up entangled with a bottom sheet
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:06 PM
Dec 2025

But my mesh bag method has eliminated the need of the lost sock bag.

EverHopeful

(693 posts)
9. An old favorite Sniglet
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:02 PM
Dec 2025

Sniglet: The Hozone--the place where one sock in every laundry load disappears to.

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
10. I have a mesh zippered bag that I put my dirty socks in and when I do my wash I throw the bag in
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:04 PM
Dec 2025

When the clothes are put the dryer the mesh bag goes in also. I have not lost socks in years. I have one and my husbands puts his socks in his !

LoisB

(13,031 posts)
11. I have decided that socks should be sold in threes not pairs as one is always sacrificed to
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:05 PM
Dec 2025

the dryer god.

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