Fight lost socks with the lost sock bag

Have you ever been in this situation: there is two minutes to get out the door and you can not find a matching pair of socks for you or your family to wear? Frustrating? Oh yeah. I have been using a method to fight this lost sock issue; it is the lost sock bag.

Step 1 Materials

All you need for this is:

-a plastic bag (you may prefer to upgrade to a nicer hanging bag, but I try to reuse these plastic bags as much as possible)
-some place to hang up the plastic bag like a cupboard door, coat hanger, or hat hook.

Comments

[hammer9876]

My lost socks were always either in the sleeves of a long-sleeved t-shirt or in the elastic corner of fitted sheets. They could be there for months on end before being found depending on the weather (long sleeves only worn in the winter) or which set of sheets get used. I am with jdege. I buy socks in bulk all the same color. Life it too short to have to match socks and people get so uptight when you purposely wear mismatched socks. Like who fricken cares? Apparently everyone does! Try it some day. EVERYONE will give you a hard time!

[michianadolls]

Our sock basket is hanging next to the dryer, same idea. Mother of three children and had enough with matching socks, and gloves too. It cut down on a lot of matching time by assigning colors to certain children based on their fave colors. Child 1 has all pink and purple socks, Child 2 loves green, Child 3 has all black. Orange socks were too hard to find, but when we did...they were his. My socks were grey.

[lemonie]

All my socks are black, and I don't care whether they're paired or not. However, if you do I like the method you've got. Short of traveling through a black hole to find where all the lost socks end-up this is a good one.

L

[indivara]

You are lucky. Even my black socks are a different color. You know what I mean, not a different color actually... a they are a slightly different shade, and look the same indoors, but are visibly different when worn outside X-(

[NoBonus]

Black socks are the hardest; that is why the sock bag method really works for me; I can match a whole bunch of singles together and really make sure I get a perfect match.

[lemonie]

What would be cool (and expensive) would be to RFID each sock and pair them up using a scanner and database? L

[NoBonus]

Hahahaha! It would be a real Rube Goldberg!

[lemonie]

Nah Rube Goldberg / Heath Robinson would involve physical tags and a card-index or something...

I was thinking of one of these but I forget how much they cost.

L

[jdege]

I never seem to have this problem. Of course, when I buy socks, I buy half-a-dozen pairs of exactly the same kind I did the last time I bought socks. All of my socks match. (Style? Who needs style?)

[NoBonus]

There are a lot of people at our place with all different kinds of socks, so this was a solution that has saved a lot of money on new socks.