My daughter and I went to one of those ‘antique stores’ that includes booths where people sell their crafts. She took a picture of this cute sign that you would buy to hang in the laundry room. It says “LOST SOCKS” with a twine clothesline and mini clothespins for you to attach the single socks whose mates hopefully show up in a future load of laundry.
That is so stinking cute! I mean that, seriously. The thought that someone exists out there who can clip a couple of lost socks to their ‘missing sock’ board is really funny to me.
In my house, we clearly have a serious problem – I have baskets of mate-less socks. I absolutely hate matching socks, but I swear they reproduce like rabbits OR the washing machine is meticulously eating a single sock from almost every pair of socks in the house.
I remember my mom must have struggled with something similar, she bought these little plastic disks that you slipped a pair of socks into to keep them together in the washer and dryer. Like a little pair of sock handcuffs…I could probably use some of those today. Because I’m telling you, my missing sock board will need to look more like a wall of clothesline strings and clothespins. Or maybe I could mount a couple of laundry baskets to the board?
Guess what? I just searched for them and found them available for purchase the exact same disks I remembered – I’m going to get some now. I’ll let you know how they work!! Maybe it will be to report, bye bye missing socks! Hello cute laundry board with just a few clothespins!