OT `Lost` land with all thosel lost things was RANT

I have a lot of umbrellas there wherever it is!

Ahhh, like the land of the missing "one sock" from a pair that seems to have been eaten by the washer or drier. Okay, I get it now. Ignore my last message on this subject... I just refreshed after posting it and this answer from you came up. ;o)

Gemini

- and *pssst* if anyone finds some marbles, I lost mine years ago! LOL

Aha Judy !!! How are you , Haya keeps sending you Shaloms ,,,,, My Opa , who was an Umbrellas manufacturer said he made more money from those lost umbrelllas than from First time buyers !!!!:>:>:> mirjam

I've solved the missing sock problem by pinning socks together before putting in the wash. When you share machines with many others in an apartment building, the stray singles are lost forever

Mirjam I am fine - though as I mentioned elsewhere am getting tired of the rain. I am going to tell those clouds to head south and east when I go out for the mail. I really enjoyed meeting Haya - she is a wonderful person and very easy to talk with. You would have thought we had known each other for years. (of course, we could have since we lived in the same town back in 1956 and 57 - I still can't get over that coincidence!) Judy

Jan i must admit i am too lazy to this ,,, and when i did i lost whole pairs ,, my solution was buying 2 pairs of every sock ,,,, this works out to having at least a pair or a pair+1/2 , and theses last for ever.... mirjam

I kept a box on top of my drier labelled "Home for Widowed Socks": Every time I had a single sock, I put it in there. About once a month I would dump the box and try to match them. Usually there were several matches.

Barbara hahahahah i have a monthly `singles evening ` when i match pairs [of socks ] .. mirjam ps one year we found an Un Identifies Sock ,,,,, turned out it flew with the wind into my garden and my husband thought it was ours ,,, once this was solved , i returned it to it`s sad mamie ... mirjam

Me too! I personally like the packages of 6 pairs of socks all in the same colour... then you *really* don't have to worry too much if one or two socks go missing. ;o)

Gemini

Except that after several washes the colors are all slightly different.

Barbara , how do you manage changing socks colors ??? i try and have no success ,,, mirjam

I don't understand the question, Mirjam. If the socks are already colored, then washing fades the color. If I buy six pairs all the same color, and one pair gets washed twice, and another pair gets washed four times, I can't match a single from the first pair with a single from the second pair any more, because of differential fading.

The same happens with white socks, unless you rigourously wash only things that are absolutely white in the "white" load. I tend to slip in a few beige or pale blue things in the white load, so after a number of washes, those six pair of white socks are no longer identically white, although you wouldn't notice unless you held them next to each other.

Aha Barabara that was what you meant ?? thought the same one pair chnged colors ,, shouldn`t read when i am half asleep ,,,, Yes this is a problem , but we have it with summer clothes when we have skirt + shirt and one gets work more than the other.... have no solution to this problem ,,, maybe stablize the Collors better ??? wash socks first time in viniger ??? mirjam