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1 year, 10 months ago

where do socks lost in the laundry go?

as i warily complete my weekly ritual of loading unloading and unfolding my laundry i fear loss.. loss of a sock. the prospect of a lost sock is one i always dread when i do my laundry. how has this unusual occurence become such a common experience that it's been cited in literature, shown in movies and a continuing universal annoyance to launderers everywhere? my ritual has now a evolved into full rotation, head/hand insertion, inner lining visual inspection/pat down, but despite my best efforts socks still go missing.

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bitbit | 1 year, 10 months ago
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Great imaginative answers! I see some good SCI-FI novels or short stories being generated by this question. I so wish I didn't know the answer to this question but, alas I do. When my clothes dryer's tub began to bang around inside the dryer shell we called the repairman. The repairman came out and took the shell off the dryer tub. The tub had slipped off it's track and needed to be replaced. All the missing socks showed up in the back portion of the dryer, evidently when the dryer tub spins it sometimes has a gap between the tub/drum and socks are sucked into that gap. I said oh so that's where all our socks are going, only thing is I can't find my missing black & white hounds tooth sock. The repairman then suggested I check under the agitator in the washer. No luck.... I still haven't found it!
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falcon18 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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This is one of the worlds unsolved mysteries! This has been happening to me for years. I have checked the filter in the washing machine several times, but of no avail! I think it's a conspiracy, and has been going on for centuries! Maybe it's an alien thing, they need spare socks for some really good reason. Maybe one day, we will find the answer to this never ending occurence!

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buddawiggi | 1 year, 10 months ago
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My plan is working perfectly. I have all of the socks you lost and will continue to receive the socks you lose until my demands are met. Currently my demands are only for more and more socks so you can see where you are at a disadvantage leverage wise.

Once I have enough of your socks I will make the rest of my plan public so for the foreseeable future just know the socks you lose are ending up in my possession. Upon the date of the completion of this collection my demands will change. Be prepared.

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xds | 1 year, 10 months ago Report

www.youtube.com/watch?v=klG_RNMDKIU

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xds | 1 year, 10 months ago Report

Jerry Seinfeld had a though about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klG_RNMDKIU

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cheapgamer | 1 year, 10 months ago
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I hope you understand I am taking risks making this information public.

The socks vanish due to the Secret International Super Government. SISG

There are other reasons, but this is by far the most common. They are watching, all the time and t -
Sorry Cheap this is Shadow Bear taking over your keyboard, man you type way too slowly. Let me take over for a moment because:
1) You don't know what to say without risking your security clearance.
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2)I enjoy messing with you.
OK, we need to monitor the health and wellbeing of the major nations of the world, using a method invented in the 1950s we can test a sample sock for illnesses and head off viral disasters, needless to say creation of international sock donation centers would be seen as a waste of taxpayer money so we created an underground lab and we hide the budget in the massive American military budget (Good luck finding it, Hahaha!) Also we don't trust that people would comply fearing privacy issues so we have black ops teams "aquire" the socks. . . except in North Korea where they just go door to door collecting socks, and they don't let anyone talk about it. Want proof just ask, they will deny it.

(Disclaimer for plausable deniability - this post has been fabricated as an attempt at humor. This in no way represents reality or the way SISG works, nor does this even confirm the existance of SISG, thank you.)
OK Cheap you can have your keyboard back - Ok . . . well, I guess that about covers it, thanks.

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cheapgamer | 1 year, 10 months ago Report

I couldn't type that as my keyboard exploded, that Shadow Bear can be a real handful sometimes.

- Quit your whining, Cheap -

Agh! that drives me nuts!

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lisak52 | 1 year, 10 months ago Report

You forgot that this message will self destruct in 5.....4......3......2.......BOOOOOOMMMMM

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lisak52 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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I figured I better answer this question.

Understanding your dismay.I also wondered where all those socks went to.So a little research was called for.
This is what I uncovered.IMG
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n90/stellarangell/underpantsgnomes.jpg/IMG
There are little creatures called Underpants Gnomes.They reside in the back of the dryer.They are in cahoots with the sock monsters.They work together to steal socks from the dryer and put them somewhere else in your home.About a week or so later you will find that missing sock in a place that you would have NEVER thought you would find it. if they find that a certain sock is superior to others they will keep them and turn them into Sock Monkeys.

Although this may seem like a rediculous thing to grasp.....It is all true!
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kty2777 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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This was explained to me while I was at University....

The socks go out the laundry vortex into the wardrobe and the socks are transmogrified into....

Those silver wire coathangers that seem to mysteriously gather in every wardrobe on the planet.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8E56bIFL1Xo/ScBofAKVV3I/AAAAAAAAABQ/rpADCfB8qBA/s320/wire-hangers.jpg

This theory not only explains lost socks, but the proliferation of wire coathangers

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duenhsiyen | 1 year, 10 months ago
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As someone who was originally trained in Physics, I think I can answer your question with some confidence and authority. According to the well known physical law known as the Conservation of Matter: "Matter cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed in form." You did not say where in the process you lost the sock. Do you always check your laundry when you transfer it from the washer to the dryer? Assuming the missing sock was properly transferred to the dryer, the only conclusion that I can think of is that the sock was changed in form, in particular into lint! I'm sure if you check your lint trap, that you will find remnants of your sock.

According to the above law, you yourself even have some control over the changed form. For example, one particularly creative individual changed the form of the 'lint' (formerly 'sock') into cute "dust bunnies" (see photo below}. I do not want to directly speculate on what these two "bunnies" are doing, but perhaps they are following a Biblical maxim to "Be fruitful and multiply." This does seem to correspond with my life experience.

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lotusla | 1 year, 10 months ago
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I agree with this common disappointment in our laundry ritual, @jef4thedeaf. When it is just nearing the end of sorting out clothes and folding them, we always come up with a loss, a dear lost sock. Vanish, Without a Trace...lol.

I love and am entertained by the answers on this thread, but wait can't help thinking about those answers maybe they are true, what if they are true? The next question might be: "What can be a worst case scenario in the household if "lost socks" cannot be located?" or "What is the Sock Conspiracy Theory?" Funny, come to think of it, it's not , it's very serious. What if the accumulation of the lost of a sock in every household will be found in one place, that would be very suspicious, what are they going to do with them? Who are the culprits? Hope they are not going to create a WMD (hello, in case you forgot, that is Weapon of Mass Destruction, lol). OMG, I have to wake up now, losing my mind on this sock phenomenon.

As all phenomenons, cannot explain it sorry, maybe someday.

Just one suggestion: Buy socks of the same types and colors, it will minimize or cover the loss.

Maybe of help is : THE BUREAU OF MISSING SOCKS http://www.funbureau.com/
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marlene | 1 year, 10 months ago
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Missing socks that seem to have disappeared in the dryer? AHA! The Sock Monster strikes again! I keep telling my husband about the Sock Monster (since it is his socks that usually are minus-one). As the story goes, the Sock Monster and his following find "hot spots" to invade. They pick and choose dryers to take over and work their evil. They can detect (by smell) if the sock owner has lacked in performance as a human. Socks begin to disappear and continue to disappear until good deeds are performed in abundance. It's a never ending challenge to a never ending dilemma.

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