World wide mystery

the socks have been tetleported to star trak's enterprise.captain kirk is using themand he has asked me to pass on this message to you,"thak you so much for your socks,they sure do keep my feet warm and thereby allow me to concentrate on my dutier" i hope that your query has been answered satisfactorily!

ARRRRRGGGGHHHH "Cue Twilight zone theme tune" its the return of the sock suckers, These evil fiendish creatures come from the 4th dimension and try to replace our socks with alien pod socks which at the right time when everyone has the pod socks, they will activate a signal that controls the pod socks and take over the world.......... sorry thats just my sick humour kicking in there. just remember though... ARE YOUR SOCKS SAFE;-)

I use to go through that now I dont. Oh you aske how? I dont do the wash. Just kidden. I put them a draw bag I bought at walmart and it works great. Try it

he he he, this is so classic and IK actually have nom idea. My thought is that there is a monster in the washer who eats them, or atleast thats what my mom always said. There os a great invention now though. little clips that u can pair them up with and it is supposed to garantee that they come out in pairs as well =)

This happened to me the other day. I just don't understand it!!! Now I have one lonely sad little sock all by itself in my drawer. Whoever figures out this great mystery deserves a nobel prize! :)

This also happens to me. However I know the exact cause of my problem. My husband takes a pair of socks from the drawer, inspects them, decides not to wear them and chucks them back in the drawer. Sometimes both socks do not go back into the drawer, one will probably land on the floor. Later he will pick up the odd sock from the floor and fling it with his dirty socks into the wash basket. I never check to see if the socks match when I am loading them into the washing machine, as I do not want to be handling dirty socks unecessarily. At the end of the wash, if I cannot match the socks, I just dump the odd ones into the trash.

There is a small creature, a little like an elephant who sucks up socks to eat, you must have endedup with odd ones because she had found a dirty one around the house and dropped it off in the washer as she will only eat clean ones.

Hi This is the Oldest Mystery in the World!! Where do they go to? They cannot go down the drain can they? I have more socks in the washing machine than I can count!! It just never fails to amaze me where they go! Maybe someone should invent a little ball that you can put socks into, and then insert the ball in the machine! That way they should come out in pairs!! Ah!......... Maybe I have stumbled onto something?

I finally solved the mystery after buying tons of socks for my son. They actually get slung in behind the drum of the washer. I had a repairman come and change the belt and WALLAH there must have been a dozen unmatched socks back there! Also I purchased a net bag for $1.00 to put all my socks in.

I remember several years ago hearing Tom Boddett's theory about this very subject. It seems he believes that there are patents for washers and dryers that don't eat socks, but that Sears and Montgomery Ward bought those patents so they could continue selling socks. Not trusting the ware factor to produce enough demand. So some place hidden in a file are the patents which will never again see the light of day. Meantime Walmart is doing a great business in sock bags for the washer!

My theory is that socks are the larval form of wire coat hangers. I have never bought a wire coat hanger in my life. Yet every year I throw out or give away dozens of them. I am *always* buying socks. Yet I can never find a matching pair. Coincidence? I think not.

Ah, the mysterious and unwelcome sock monster. I wonder if he travels from wacher to washer to make all of us think we are insane. Oh I have an odd sock drawer too, maybe we could compare our drawers and between the two of we might just find some matches.

Your washing machine has been invaded by the single sock monster, Once its in your machine it will be there for ever. I say it although it could be male or female but at the speed it breeds then it could be both. My monster is very hungry at the moment, but at odd times it must be full up because the missing socks sometimes turn up again usually in very strange places - under beds, or in wrong drawers, however these places are always searched as soon as the socks go missing and they are missing because they only go into the washing machine in pairs. Its almost always the left sock that goes missing as well, seldom the right one. In this digital age a photograph of the missing sock is posted up on the fridge door so that all the family can keep a look out for them. So much more fun than fridge magnets don't you think? although with so many missing I can no longer see the fridge for all thes 'Darn' socks.

It is so funny how this seems to happen to everyone that I know of!*laugh* I don't understand the phenomenon, either. It seems that rumors of the 'sock monster' may be true, lol!^_~ I think that it's sweet that you have a drawer especially for odd socks. Aw!^_^

happens all the time makes me wonder if somehow they get spun out with the water i don't know if it is possible but they go somewhere

Ive got the same sock monster in my washing machine. I constantly end up with odd sock that just does not have a mate. Remedy? Well I started do the washing more regularly to have more control over what goes in and what comes out. Its when I do the washing that has been building up for 2 weeks that I find most of the sock monsters appearing.

may be our inner wish exppress it through the missing of that socks..if we always like for the best one it is naturally miss the old one..for a new one..u will be so as u think.

yeh! i know that has happened to me a couple of times! you know wat i think! i think the socks falls through some kind of time portal and as a result gets transfered into the future o past of the wash! so some else finds your socks!

funny never heard of this before. but there is one thing may be its the same two socks and one of them has been exposed to a cloth whose colour was running. i dont think i can explain this but can give you an advice. try and soak your socks in a tub and hand wash them this way they will never get lost.

I actually know the answer to this one! Sometimes the socks fall behind the washing drum and end up going into the pump (especially if it is a big load). My dad has pulled quite a few apart over the years and found many miscellaneous socks in the hose and pump. So there you go... mystery solved hehe. I don't advise you to take the washer apart though unless you know what you are doing.