When I was a child and my parents would go away overnight my Grandmother would come to stay with us. One of the "fun" activities on the agenda was a "sock hop" where she would put every unmatched sock that she could find in our household of 7 people and put them on my mothers bed. We would then take on the task of pairing them off and turning a king sized mountain into what seemed like millions of pairs of socks. It always seemed unbelievable to me that so many socks had not made it into the laundry at the same time!!
Now, I have a family and THERE ARE NEVER ANY SOCKS FOR MY CHILDREN!!!! I am not sure how my children have managed to lose the thousand or so pairs of socks I have purchased but...matched socks are always very hard to have an abundance of! I manage to get mine and my husbands into the wash with a 99% match rate, why can I not do it with my kids? It is very frustrating when my children are sent to their rooms to get dressed for the day and all I can hear is the bellow that they can't find socks?!?! For goodness sake, I have done ALL of the laundry!!!! Where can they be?????
In the toy bins, beneath the couch, inside of shoes, with the crayons?! These are just some of the places I have found lonely socks. How does just one get lost? Are they walking around in just one sock and I am not noticing it? I guess the answer is yes. I thought I was paying attention!
So, until my kids can take off two socks at a time and put them in the hamper, I have a place above my washer for those without a mate. There they will sit like a teen aged girl anxiously waiting for a date to the prom until they eventually get turned into dusting mitts.
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