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applegrove

(130,529 posts) Sat Dec 13, 2025, 11:07 AM Dec 13

For my first time ever I put a single sock on the laundry, not part of [View all]

a pair. I will let you know if it comes out a singleton when I do my laundry. 1/6 of the time I get an odd number of socks back from the laundry I do, and I always put in pairs. This is science. A hypothesis.

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For my first time ever I put a single sock on the laundry, not part of [View all] applegrove Dec 13 OP

you are an absolute genius. ret5hd Dec 13 #1

Tell me it's not pink! A lone pink sock just appeared in my dryer. I don't own any pink socks!😨 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 13 #2

What if it comes out two? Sneederbunk Dec 13 #3

Then I will assume a whole bunch of lint got together applegrove Dec 13 #4

Or maybe... 2naSalit Dec 13 #14

HAHAHAHA Here they are! justaprogressive Dec 13 #5

Ha ha ha! applegrove Dec 13 #6

I am struggling with this. I have a gazillian socks and none of them seem to match. CTyankee Dec 13 #7

Give them and let the homeless organization decide. applegrove Dec 13 #8

I keep those lost socks in a bag and sometimes the match shows up entangled with a bottom sheet kimbutgar Dec 13 #12

An old favorite Sniglet EverHopeful Dec 13 #9

I have a mesh zippered bag that I put my dirty socks in and when I do my wash I throw the bag in kimbutgar Dec 13 #10

Great idea. LoisB Dec 13 #13

I have decided that socks should be sold in threes not pairs as one is always sacrificed to LoisB Dec 13 #11

You rebel you duckworth969 Dec 13 #15