Why are my socks always missing when I do a laundry? I always come up one short. Plus I end

[applegrove]

up with kids' sock in my dry load and I don't have any kids. I've heard the theory that when I find a sole sock it is just lint that got together and formed a new sock.... it is not missing.

[Incitatus]

1. I think multi-dimensional beings sneak into our universe and steal them.

There is a planet somewhere in another universe filled with beings with a fetish for human socks.

[applegrove]

2. LOL!

[RebelOne]

3. Same here. I always lose them in the dryer.

I am convinced that there are sock thieve gremlins in the dryer.

[In_The_Wind]

4. I toss my socks into a mesh lingerie bag to avoid that.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Look in your folded sheets and in the interior of your pants leg.

[krispos42]

6. Popular answer:

The garden gnomes and the lawn jockies collect them so they can make effigies of you to burn after you run one of their number over (again) with the lawnmower because it's hot, beer is good, and who cares if you ride a motorized vehicle fitted with sharp, spinning steel blades while wearing only your underwear, anyway?









Real answer?

The missing socks are probably cemented to the inside of the washer tub during the spin cycle and you simply miss them because they're behind one of the baffles or just inside the rim where you can't see them unless you crawl in with a flashlight.

[NV Whino]

7. The washer eats them. Really.

One of the few times I had a washer I discovered that it once ate a sock and spit it out in the laundry tub where the water drained.

If your washer doesn't drain into a laundry tub, just think of all the socks dancing in the world's sewers.

[nolabear]

8. Socks are the nymph stage of coat hangers.

[LisaL]

9. Mine too.

I have a whole box full of un-paired socks. Where the hell did the rest of them go?

[a kennedy]

10. and the classic Seinfeld routine.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=m5OoR0Qjrlo

Love it.