Sunday 12 April 2009

Odd

I've been sorting out the children's clothes drawers and tackling the Mount Everest of laundry that lurks in our house in preparation for going on holiday tomorrow. Now, I'm confident that I've washed and sorted everything that needed washing and sorting and yet there are still these...



...the Little Helper's odd socks. 15 of them! How did this happen? Where are all the others? I suppose it doesn't help that clothes in our family have been handed down and down and down the children (my nephew is now 16 and I'm fairly confident some of these were his) so the Little Helper is the sixth child to own these socks. Nor does it help that I am congenitally incapable of throwing anything away, but.....15! My husband confidently tells me that he's sure some of them are in the garden. Hmm. I wonder what it will take for me to finally accept that I am never going to find the other half of these pairs and actually throw them away.

We're going to Cape Cod tomorrow, so off to find some actual pairs of socks to pack.

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9 comments:

  1. Helen @ The Beading Lady12 April 2009 at 03:35

    I have loads of single socks like that ~ but the moment I throw it away, the other one turns up!! Found one in a duvet cover the other day?!!

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  2. Beaky12 April 2009 at 13:34

    I am convinced their must be a sock monster on the loose. I have a draw full, and some are mine. Have fun at Cape cod.
    B x

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  3. She Draws13 April 2009 at 02:14

    In the garden? haha.

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  4. Suzanne Vaughan13 April 2009 at 02:18

    Oh, I always have the same! Make them into something...?

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  5. Anonymous13 April 2009 at 02:44

    I think you may need this link to put them to good use (this is what I'm doing later!)... http://busstop.typepad.com/blog/2006/02/how_to_make_a_s.html

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  6. The Dotty One13 April 2009 at 04:41

    You should make a sock monkey or a sock monster - some of those socks would make fab little firends!

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  7. June21 April 2009 at 06:18

    We have the same problem, the sock monster takes them...I think he likes wearing odd socks lol

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  8. lampwork beads by jo4 May 2009 at 02:33

    same problem here lol

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  9. Scented Sweetpeas18 March 2010 at 06:14

    Just found your blog and this did make me smile, where do all the other socks go?? I can't throw odd socks away either 'just in case' the other one turns up :-)

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