When you have a lot of socks to wash and dry....

Higglydy-piggeldy but they have to be next to a matching one on the line.

Well that's not higgledy-piggledy then is it?!

Second method too but always end up with an odd sock or even two!

Could you explain in a little more detail please. It sounds a hybrid method.

Oh no - not the odd socks syndrome!

I hang them higgle outdoors and in but pair them up as I take them off the indoor airer. Odds get shoved in the sock drawers to await their partners.

Until she grew up to be a high school kid, Minibags always wore odd socks so it didn't matter with hers.

GS has worn odd socks as long as he could get away with it. Now a mature (?) twenty year old he says it's a statement.

Mine go in the tumble dryer and then get sorted when they are dry.

I actually peg them up on the line as they come and when dry throw them on relevant person's bed for them to put away. The only trouble is that DH and DS have some that look very similar so I give them all to DS and he throws back the ones that aren't his. Doesn't always work and some get inside duvet covers where they stay until the said covers are next used. I'm afraid I would not win any medals for efficiency !

I've got coat hangers with lots of pegs attached(Lakeland ) and it's really easy to take the socks off dry matching them up as you go. That does save time. We once stayed in a convent in Santiago de C .b and the nuns washed paired and IRONED DH's socks.

Never really recovered from the shock.

But you do get a medal for good sock sense, gorki! Life is too short to worry about such things.

On the line in pairs, off the line in pairs.... love the coloured toes and heels that make it so easy to indulge my OCD

I got a photo message from DH last week, his feet without shoes up on his desk.. odd socks so obviously I have no system or at least one that works, I blamed him he put them on Now I am wondering why he had his shoes off at work

Exactly glass he was the clown that put two odd socks on! Probably had a charity "no shoes at work day" we have them all the time !

maybe I should apply for the next vacant position, I would fit in well..

We DO have a strict "no cheesy feet" policy though Glass so not sure you will fit in here!

Thanksbags you've made my day.
Grandchildren(aged 6) have been staying all week. Daughter sent over their clothes on Monday which included 3 odd white socks for granddaughter. Looked in grandson's football kit bag and found just one football sock. Rang up daughter who said "Well he only brought one home " .!I looked in lost property at school. Variety of smelly white socks but not his. Come this morning he says "I don't want to go to football today"
"Why ever not?" says I.
"Because I've only got one sock" says he.
A quick rummage through a drawer and I actually found 2 white England socks. A bit small but OK. Hurrah! Everybody happy !

I use the higgledy piggeldy system and put left overs draped on the breadmaker. It's not unusual to find 3 or 4 odd ones there - how does that happen?

Socks go in the tumble dryer unless it's a very hot day!

I've cut and pasted this from something I wrote on another thread:

...my mother - the supreme housewife, who, when she came to stay when the DC were young, made it her mission to pair off all the DS's white sports socks. She got a nappy pin, and each time she discovered a lone sock, she would attach it to the pin. She ended up with about9 different socks, and was not amused. The boys didn't give a **, and were happy to wear slightly odd socks, and that, as far as she was concerned, was quite beyond the pale...

Breadmaker's good, kitty! In this house, radiators, Rayburn, arm-rests of settees. Never thought of the breadmaker. [inspired]

J08 I have been away for a few days and I come back to find you posting about "when you have a lot of socks to wash and dry. Are you sure you are "quite well my dear"? Or is it just a fit of irony.

And tea towels - she's quite keen on those too. What next, I wonder?

Kittyl Does the bread tastes OK, afterwards. Not of slightly less smelly socks I hope.