Sock sorting

Well, no gransnetter would actually do that inefficient sort of his as you wouldn't painstakingly pick up the coloured socks if you were after a black one. The problem comes when you have only black hopsacks, and all the welts at the top are different. Not sure why I'm OCD about only wearing the matched ones, but for some reason I am

just wear odd socks both girls in our hose plus one mle so - the other is meticulous about putting pairs into the washing machine & hangs them up in pairs

Get a mesh laundry washing bag (I always put my bras in one) and wash the (presumably paired!) socks in that.

Oh flipping heck, don't remind me of those days. DH and DSs wore black and all 3 girls wore white socks during the summer. Sounds easy doesn't it until you hear 'These socks aren't a pair', 'But they are both black', 'I don't care, they don't feel like a pair!'

I wore pink socks so I was ok!!!!

When there were seven of us at home we used 14 socks a day and 98 socks a week. We have a huge bag of odd socks!!!

Where,oh where, do those missing socks go? My theory is that they disappear down the washing machine outlet pipe. But how? A universal mystery it seems.

Having to sort socks is one of the reasons we are blessed with colour vision.

It is a great way of teaching toddlers to pick out distinguishing features in a heap of similar objects - a prerequisite to distinguishing letters and numbers and learning to read.

I drape mine over the (largely unused) breadmaker until I get really fed up of seeing it and then chuck. Of course, shortly after the corresponding sock appears in a quilt cover or the like! But, then I have another spare sock to chuck. Seems like a really good system to me!

All socks went into a basket that lived in the upstairs landing. Pairs rolled, odds on top. Pick and mix for us all.

We have a black hole in our house, where odd socks disappear. I am convinced I put a pair in washing machine, but at some point between then and drying, we lose some.I have a big bag of them waiting to be reunited. I tried buying just all black socks for OH, but he keeps getting coloured ones.

I suggested he wears odd socks as a mark of individuality, but that idea didn't go down too well.

Any odd socks lay in the airing cupboard for a while and then the bin if the absent sock doesn't show up. Its hardly rocket science is it?