Has anyone an explanation as to why socks wind up missing? I have a small pile of single socks with their partner lost.... Anyone have an explanation for this phenomenon?
The big question is why they disappear in singles, and not in pairs. I think they just get tired of each other and decide to go their separate ways.
Static electricity makes them sticky. There smaller size allows them to stick in sneaky places. I'd rather say something funny about them being the fundamental element in cosmologic accretion but I might sound nerdish. Maybe B-bob will jump in here with the real Mr.Science answer.
I got fed up with that too and threw out all of my old socks and just bought 10-12 pairs of identical socks for each color I wear. If one goes missing, I just wait for another to go missing and then I have a set again.
First of all: phenomenon If I have socks on the floor, my dog generally drags them into one of his hiding places, at which point he may or may not chew it to pieces.
places to check... under the spinner in the center of the washer... there is a gap under it... very small. next to the drum of the washer... if the washer is overfilled they can sneak over the edge. How to keep it from happening.... this is a real hassle, but buy some safety pins and when you get ready to throw socks in the dirty laundry pin the two socks together with the safety pin. Then they won't get lost. personally that's too much work.. so I just buy a lot of the same socks and don't miss them as much when they go missing.
I have only lost a sock twice in my entire life. Both times I was pissed I never misplace or lose anything.
I've heard this before but I've never checked it out to see if all these socks are trapped in the wall of my washer.
Once I left a sock at my parents house in Houston. My mom mailed me the sock so that I'd have a complete pair again... The sock never made it back to me. I'm still pissed.
