Thank you to my friends who offered solutions to my sock dilemma! It inspired me to go searching to see what others did to “conquer the sock monster”.
cbaddo from The Small Moments blog, shared these two great ideas:
- Peg socks that match on the line. When hanging your washing, leave the socks untill last, and peg them in pairs. Once they are dried, fold them together as you take them off the line.
- Give the unmatched socks a home. Have an odd socks box. Cull them every couple of months to get rid of all those single socks and any socks that the children have grown out of.
Her sister had this great piece of advice she heard:
- Buy multiple pairs of socks. Buy each child 6 pairs of the same coloured sock. (I have heard of others buying 8 to 10 pairs of socks per person. You could restock every Christmas.)
Here are some ideas from Flybabies:
- Group socks together in the wash. Put socks into a mesh bag before popping them into the wash
- Keep the matched socks together. Pin the socks together as soon as they get taken off. Or use a “sock cop“
- Get the family involved in keeping socks together. Each family member has a mesh bag that hangs on their door nob that they put their dirty socks in. This can be put through the washer and dryer. (You could even have one mesh bag for light socks, and one for dark socks)
- Only wash paired socks. Only put socks in the washing machine if they have a match. That way, you know when you take it out of the washer or dryer that there is a matching sock hiding some where.
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