Disappearing socks

No agitator in my washing machine. The bottom is smooth.

I did get one other idea: a few weeks ago, I visited my daughter in Pittsburgh. She is not home now, but when she gets back in a few days, she will search for it. I hope it's there!
 

Sunny said:
No agitator in my washing machine. The bottom is smooth.

I did get one other idea: a few weeks ago, I visited my daughter in Pittsburgh. She is not home now, but when she gets back in a few days, she will search for it. I hope it's there!
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Does anyone else live in your house with you who may have decided they'd make good car washing mitts or wiping rags for the car motor's oil dipstick?
 
Jules said:
Maybe it never made it to the laundry. Perhaps you dropped it after taking both off and it’s hiding somewhere along the route to the hamper. Did you check inside your shoes?

I know your frustration. I lost a pair of fit over sunglasses. Looked everywhere for six months. One day they were peeking out from beneath the passenger seat. I’d looked there several times.
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especially aggravating when you finally find the missing item in a place you know you've looked MANY times.

i live in an apartment with laundry room just 2 doors away. i try to be vigilant when checking washer/dryer at end of cycle for any hiding socks. any orphaned socks go in a pile of mismatched socks. they're all the same style/size, so i sometimes just grab 2. have had socks come home with me on occasion. i just take items back and leave on table. have even had runaways returned the same way.
 

When I first moved to my apartment, I put a trash bin on the floor of my laundry room. The room had closed doors and it seemed like a good spot to hide trash... The bin sat in an area in front of the clothes washer.

Good place for it until the day I washed my aloe vera ankle socks, and presto ... one came out of the dryer that day, and the other one was never to be seen again.

So I'm sure that I dropped one in the trash on the way to the dryer. By the time that I figured that out, the trash had long since gone down the trash chute.
Needless to say ... no more trash containers near the washer/dryer!
 
You've probably covered this somewhere on the thread but socks do hide themselves inside duvet covers (/dovet cuvrs) don't they, or up trouser legs or the sleeves of other items they're washed with and when we get worse at bending, they're hiding in the washing machine drum too, when we wrongly assume its empty.
 
One day as I was putting the clothes in the washer, a sock escaped and fell to the floor between the wall and the washer, where it still is. In order to get it, I would have to move the washer out of the closet it is in. There is not enough space for me to get my hand in there to get it out, since there is only a couple of inches and the closet door is in the way.
 
Jeweltea said:
One day as I was putting the clothes in the washer, a sock escaped and fell to the floor between the wall and the washer, where it still is. In order to get it, I would have to move the washer out of the closet it is in. There is not enough space for me to get my hand in there to get it out, since there is only a couple of inches and the closet door is in the way.
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... A wire hanger twisted to the right shape, with a piece of sticky two-way tape on the end? ... I love a challenge...😁


As for those bread ties, they seem to be become magnetic when you lay them down --- they spring to life, and jump to the floor.(y)
 
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I never lose a sock. Why? They're either always locked together or on my feet. You can buy plastic things if you can find them, but the easiest way is to get the elastics that go around pony tails. Make sure they're secured tightly. Problem solved.
 
Sunny said:
Good answers, all (of course, none of them brought my sock back, but they were interesting to read). I was particularly interested in Ruth n Jersey's suggestion that if I throw the other sock out, it will turn up. So, how about if I go through a fake "throwing out" ritual, dramatically throwing the other sock into the trash (maybe a clean wastebasket?) and then quietly sneaking it back out? Do you think that might work?

I also liked CinnamonSugar's cartoon about the parallel universe. I swear, that must be what happened.

My washer is a top-loader, with no raised agitator. I did look in the corners of sheets, though I did give away one older sheet set, so I suppose that's one theory of what happened to it. I don't remember any more whether I examined the corners of that one.

Well, who knows? Maybe it will turn up some day, in the one place I didn't think of looking. But dammit, with all the horrible old socks I would be delighted to get rid of, why did it have to be that one? 😠
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The same reason it is always your favorite blouse you get chili or spaghetti sauce on.
 
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