LOST SOCKS - just what happens to them?

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Miri

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Do you ever wonder how socks get lost in the washing machine?
Does the washing machine eat them?
Is there any evidence of a spare sock heaven somewhere out there?

What do you do with your spare socks and what can they be used for?


 

PopClick

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This is quite possibly the funniest sock craft in the world. Here's a link to the instructions: Funny + hairy sock
P.S. The instructions say corn seed, but they are actually using wheat. ;)
 
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OFM

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they go to bible college or seminary
i use extra socks to shine my shoes with
 
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Miri

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Miri

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Another thought - maybe socks are raptured! One is taken and the other left behind.

I have a really wicked use for spare socks. During Halloween, I use them to tie up our garden gate so the trick/treaties cannot get into the garden and
keep knocking on the door all night long. Is that really awful of me?
 

pickles

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I have often wondered about this, as over the last thirty years of washing my childrens and husbands socks.
I know the pair went in the washer, but one somehow dissapeared, leaving no trace.
My husband was a dectective for a while, so I called on his training and technical knowladge to help me solve this missing sock issue.
His answer was c.s.i. has not yet developed a way of solving this, and all cases are placed in a large clothing basket untill technoligy can come up with a way to solve this issue.
I looked to scripture, but the only answer I recieved was my grace is sufficient for you.
God does have a sence of humor. :)
So I asked my children what happened to the sock or socks.
They said they said alien cows took them to keep their udders warm. :rolleyes:
I have occasionally found a sock in a strange place, the most unussual which I do not even want to consider how ??? was the fridge.
Suffice to say this mystery will always remain unsolved, but we have found a good use for the extra socks. :D
We fill them with cat nip and let the cats have them. :)

God bless
pickles
 
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wwjd_kilden

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lol Pickles

I think there is a sockmonster living in all houses. In addition to the creature that picks up stuff and leaves it at a totally different place than where you remember putting it :D
 

starfield

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Perhaps there's an invisible black hole in the washing machine or dryer that sucks them in. Or maybe they didn't make it into the washing machine to begin with but got misplaced on the way<-- that's usually the case for me. hahaha!

If I don't find the other pair, I use the spare one as a dust cloth....or sometimes I mismatch :D
 
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Miri

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You know what I can't work out (well actually there is a lot I can't work out but maybe that is for another thread).

How is it that it is never the socks with holes in them that go missing, it is always the good ones.

I have even tried buying several pairs of socks all the same colour so if a couple go missing, I still have a pair.
But now I just have less socks all the same colour with holes in them, cos all of the good socks have gone missing.
 

pickles

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lol Pickles

I think there is a sockmonster living in all houses. In addition to the creature that picks up stuff and leaves it at a totally different place than where you remember putting it :D
Ahhh yes, this monster is often called by several names...( I dont know, not me, or I didnt do it!).
I have considered offering a reward for finding this monster. :)

God bless
pickles
 
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Foxxtale

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I'm fond of two theories:

1.) the sock monster sucks them out through your dryer's lint trap. the lint is the um... "leavings"... of what used to be the (typically) left sock

2.) there is a rip between our dimension and another parallel universe contained in all dryers... in this parallel universe, socks randomly appear in the dryer, leaving the owner with an extra, unexplained sock in nearly every load

...have you ever noticed how the socks with holes in them never seem to have a problem sticking around for the duration?
 
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OFM

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they get married move out and start thier own families.
or they go to europe .
 
M

Miri

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Now come on people - we know there is no such thing as monsters or parallel dimensions.
Be serious now, the answer of course must be that the garden knomes take them to snuggle up to on cold nights.

What did the sock say when it found a hole in its toe?................Darn it

What ancient sock was a famous Greek philospher?.............Sockrates


Here is a brain teaser for you the winner gets a life time of spare socks courtesy of the washing machine.

Your sock drawer contains 10 pairs of black socks and 10 pairs of white socks.
If you are allowed to take only one sock from the drawer at a time, what is the minimum number of socks you need to
take before you are guaranteed to have a pair?

Think about it carefully :)


they go to bible college or seminary
i use extra socks to shine my shoes with


Maybe they go to bible college to learn how to sock it to them - Sorry folks Ive had all day to think about these while at work!
 

flowerof3

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i never found a missing sock , but when my daughters were small i used to use safety pins to keep them together.

lucky for us they even sell mismatched socks in the stores, the guy almost had me but i told him that's something i don't need to spend money on,

but as far as missing socks i always thought the keebler elves had them and used them for oven mitts
 
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OFM

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maybe they go on the sock mission field
 
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Miri

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Here is a brain teaser for you the winner gets a life time of spare socks courtesy of the washing machine.

Your sock drawer contains 10 pairs of black socks and 10 pairs of white socks.
If you are allowed to take only one sock from the drawer at a time, what is the minimum number of socks you need to
take before you are guaranteed to have a pair?

Think about it carefully :)

Just in case you were wondering the answer is two - no one said they had to be a matching pair, and given the subject matter, they probably won't.


 

flowerof3

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i think maybe a disgruntled ex deliberately take your socks and lives happily ever after knowing that they have something that you'll never get again , your matching pair
 
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OFM

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Just in case you were wondering the answer is two - no one said they had to be a matching pair, and given the subject matter, they probably won't.
thats very much alot very cute.
 
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Do you ever wonder how socks get lost in the washing machine?
Does the washing machine eat them?
Is there any evidence of a spare sock heaven somewhere out there?

What do you do with your spare socks and what can they be used for?
Automobiles attract socks and use them as a fuel additive.
 
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OFM

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they join the navy get on a ship to visit sock family members in europe.