Keeping Track of Socks

Keeping Track of Socks

The answer to lost socks! Finally, I am no longer hunting for, sorting through, and matching up socks for my family of five! I just bought inexpensive, mesh lingerie bags that can be found at places like Target or Walmart. I placed one on a hook in the closet for each of my 3 daughters. My kids tend to tear off their shoes and socks when they walk in the door, so I put theirs in a closet there, but you could also hang them in the bedroom or laundry room.

They simply throw their socks in the mesh bags when they come home. On laundry day, I ask everyone to get their sock bags and throw them into the washing machine, making sure they are all zipped up. I then wash them and throw them into the dryer as is. When they're dry, the kids take their own bag and sort their socks themselves. Little ones especially enjoy doing this, but sometimes I admit, if we're pressed for time we don't sort them at all. We know they're all there.

They then put the sorted (or unsorted) socks back into their bags and take upstairs to dump out into their sock drawer. No missing socks! No sorting! One less things for me to do! The bags are then hung up in their usual places, waiting for the next day's socks. So easy!

By volvomom from San Diego, CA

Keep Socks Together in Laundry

Cut a piece of 3/4 inch PVC pikp to make a ring approximately 1/8 inch thick. Sand the rough edges and you're good to go. Slip a pair of adult socks through the hole and throw in the dirty clothes basket. This will keep the socks together through washer, dryer, and on to the clean socks drawer. I never remove the ring until I'm ready to wear the clean socks, then I put the ring on a pair of dirty socks.

For little people's socks, you can use a 1/2 inch PVC pipe.

By BUD from Bradenton, FL

Keeping Socks Together In The Laundry

When my husband buys new socks, he marks each one "L" for left foot and "R" for right foot with a permenant marker. Then he takes a safety pin and pins the socks together when he takes them off. I throw them in the washer and dryer. No more hunting for the left and right sock to match up and no more lost socks. Just goes to show that men can be clever!

By B from Illinois

Store Dirty Socks in a Mesh Bags

Give each family member their own mesh bag for them to keep in their rooms to place their dirty socks in. They go in the washer and dryer in the mesh bag (assuming they are either white or colored). After laundering, each bag goes into their stack of clean clothes. No More Sorting!

By Kathy