Where do socks disappear to when you launder them?

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   lambservantposted 12 years ago

   I had a hub request from a friend who was going crazy becauee every time she buys a new pair of socks and washes them, one sock of the pair is always lost. Any ideas? I'm looking for serious or humorous answers. Will be making a hub out of this.

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      AEvansposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I believe the washer gets hungry and eats them or the dryer may have decided to see if one would fit and forgot to give it back!   That's what I tell my family anyway.

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      Jesus was a hippyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      They go to china. It was on CNN last month. Apparently that's where they get 18% of their countries income from.

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      FatFreddysCatposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I can vouch for the fact that washing machines do occasionally eat socks. A couple of weeks ago my wife called me @ work and told me that she'd just run a load of laundry and now the washer wasn't draining. When I got home I took the bottom panel off the front of the washer and started fiddling around with the hoses and connections. Eventually I found the problem -- a sock had somehow gotten sucked out of the "drum" and down into the outflow pipe. It was packed in there good and tight too so the water couldn't get past it. It was a b*tch getting the sock out of there, and of course when I finally freed it I had to deal with several gallons of soapy water spilling out all over the floor, but at least I was able to fix it without having to make an expensive service call! I was rather proud of myself.

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   I don't know where they go, but they always come back.

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      AEvansposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Lololo! They needed a long break Paradigm after all the foot is not the nicest place to always be. lololo!

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   Greekgeekposted 12 years ago

   Many years ago the excellent book "Poodles From Hell" explained that they get sucked into a parallel dimension ccalled the Sargasso Sea of Socks. Rumor has it that Jimmy Hoffa is there, too.

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      lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      

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   SandyMcCollumposted 12 years ago

   One time we cleaned out that venting tube that makes the hot air from the dryer go outside and found some socks in there. We've also found them in between the tub and casing of the washer. We've also taken them out of the sink, which is where our washer drained. I think there's several ways they go, and they only come back when you've lost or thrown out the other one.

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      lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Sandy, I have never thought about in between the tub and casing of the washer. It sure makes sense.

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   larakernposted 12 years ago

   Half of the time my lost socks never find their way home. I believe that I have a sock hungry ghost in my house, haha.

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   Michael Willisposted 12 years ago

   They end up in the HP Forums as Sock-Puppets!!!
   
   

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      lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Michael, that is hilarious.

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      Pamela N Redposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      

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   Arlene V. Pomaposted 12 years ago

   It's the washer.  I have a passive-aggressive washer.  Whenever it has a beef with me, my socks disappear.  But that's okay.  Until they reappear, I still use the one sock.  I am retired, so know one checks if my socks match.  I just need a similar color.

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   klarawieckposted 12 years ago

   See, what people don't know is that dry heat can open portals to other realms. Socks are superior spiritual beings that haven't been recognized by believers or scientists yet. But the truth is that they have the ability to travel through time and space, showing up at random places... like... underneath your ex-boyfriend's bed (ahem!) or under the sofa cushions of your superhot body-builder neighbor. But socks hardly ever do this journey alone... they're usually accompanied by thongs and bras.

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      lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Arlene, we think alike. If I don't have a match, I just wear long pants and no one is the wiser. Klarawieck, ah, thongs and bras too. Never worn a thong, never plan to, but have lost  a bra or two in my time. You are funny Kiarwieck.

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   Arlene V. Pomaposted 12 years ago

   Lambservant, we do what we can to save.  I tried buying these bamboo socks, but they don't seem to be able to take a beating.  Klara, I have never left any bras or thongs at anyone's house.  Not that I would be wearing thongs!  If I didn't think of the guy as a keeper, not leaving anything around his place guaranteed a clean break!  Why go back for bras and socks when I'm already down the road?

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      klarawieckposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Arlene, you're simply not helping!

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      Denise Handlonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      

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    iantoPFposted 12 years ago

    We had a pile of odd socks so my wife got the brilliant idea of dyeing them all black. That was fine but then the missing socks started appearing and things went downhill from there.

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       lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       lanto dying them all one color is great idea. I buy only one brand and color of sock so if I lose some from time to time, I still have others to wear. Also, I have found socks that have fallen behind the dryer or on the side of it .

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    Denise Handlonposted 12 years ago

    I frequently have that happen and it makes no difference if it is my home or when I visit my kids.  I think it is just gremlins playing tricks...or maybe a black hole that opens up and swallows it.

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    Rusticlivingposted 12 years ago

    I have it on very good authority and pictures that have been developed from a camera I had hidden in my laundry room, that aliens come down and swipe the socks. They have this thing about wearing "Human Socks." Now.. the question shouldn't be "where do they go or end up?", the question should be, "Why only ONE sock from each pair? Why is one sock left behind?" I believe that the picture I have captured will explain this and the mystery solved.
    
    
    

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       lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Rustic, that image is awesome, and proof positive there are little creatures stealing our socks.

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    jennzieposted 12 years ago

    I'm not sure, but in my house TV remotes and keys get lost- or perhaps should I say MISPLACED- far more, as well as cell phones (I STILL can't find mine yet!).

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    recommend1posted 12 years ago

    The trick is to always wear odd socks - the missing ones come creeping out of hiding and back into the draw if totally ignored.

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       lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       brilliant

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    Bedbugabscondposted 12 years ago

    I am fairly sure we have a Hobbit who lives behind the dryer. I blame him for the missing socks. Apparently, he collects forks as well. When you clean your entire house looking for forks because there is only one in the kitchen, and you find nothing, it must be a hobbit!

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       lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       bedbugs, in my house it's spoons.

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    prettydarkhorseposted 12 years ago

    it is mixed with other socks in somebody's closet

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    cheaptrickposted 12 years ago

    One time,I couldn't find a matching sock so I called 411 information.The nice lady told me to look behind the couch...There it Was!
    "Steven Wright"

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       lambservantposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Hilarious Cheaptrick

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    Eric Calderwoodposted 12 years ago

    It has been scientifically proven that some socks, being the twins that they are, have a telepathic link with each other.  In order to find the missing sock, you have only to take the remaining sock to a psychiatrist who will put this sock under hypnosis.  The sock will then connect with its twin and be able to tell you where it is.  Isn't modern science amazing?

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    logic,commonsenseposted 12 years ago

    I'm thinking it has to be related to the Big Bang!

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    pstraubie48posted 12 years ago

    They disintegrate. It is part of a conspiracy by the National Sock Industry so that we will need to buy m o r e socks....   

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    Quilligrapherposted 12 years ago

    All washing machines, like HubPages, check every load for duplicate content and eliminate it.

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       Eric Calderwoodposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Now that's funny!

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    Pamela N Redposted 12 years ago

    Fairies steal them when you aren't looking and make clothes out of them. They have a shortage of cotton and wool in Fairy Land and it is a much needed commodity.

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    Hugh Williamsonposted 12 years ago

    The real answer (Seinfeld explains where they go....)
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5OoR0Qjrlo

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    Bill Yovinoposted 12 years ago

    They end up in a Laundromat in Tasmania...
    
    

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       Druid Dudeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Black holes.

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       Thelma Albertsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       So, my socks are there in Tasmania! I was already wondering why they didn´t answer me when I called them;D. I´m sure the socks want a holiday in a warm and sunny country, lol;-)

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    carlarmesposted 12 years ago

    We have Yuggles in our house, they take other stuff as well, keen on moving things and then putting them back where you had only just looked at five minutes earlier.
    They also collect buttons off shirts and they have a habit of breaking my shoe laces and letting down my bicycle tyres just before I need to go to work.
    
    Actually I know mice like socks, I found a stash of them under the floor boards in  a small mice nest, along with black knickers, not mine.

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       Bill Yovinoposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Reminds me of the hamsters my kids had years ago. One was always exercising on the wheel and the other used the wheel to gently rock back and forth. We read that if you put an old sock in the cage, the hamster would shred it and use it for a nest. We gave a sock to each. The active hamster shredded his and built a nest in the corner of his cage. The lazy hamster used the sock as a sleeping bag without further adjustment. FYI - the lazy hamster out-lived the other by fair margin.

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