An unsatisfying resolution

[simont]

I've not been posting here in a while, and it seems to me that one reason why not is that I increasingly don't feel as if I have the brain-space to put together a long and well thought-out post about anything.

Perhaps, therefore, I should begin to fix this by posting short and/or inconsequential things. To kick off with, here's one that is both.

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Comments

[woodpijn]

I vry much sympathise with the first sentence :( I have a long list of interesting post topics I never have the mental energy to write up.

Our socks (and toddler T-shirts, and sometimes even adult T-shirts) get lost in the corners of pillowcases and duvet covers. If that happened, it's plausible it came back out again next time it went through the wash.

[gerald_duck]

Yes! Pillowcases and duvet covers.

Personally - and I should prefix this by saying I'm not obsessive-compulsive, honest - I seem to have devised a system where I wash seven "units" of laundry at a go. One unit is t-shirt+pants+socks or a sweatshirt. Jeans, duvet cover, or fitted sheet+two pillowcases are each two units.

This means I know if something's gone missing between loading and unloading the washing machine, and invariably I find it in a duvet case. Or not: having got frustrated at how things trapped in a duvet case didn't get rinsed or spun properly, I now wash duvet cases done up and the problem has gone away.

[siderea]

*takes notes*

[feanelwa]

Stuck to the inside of the drum tucked down in the invisible corner where one of the three turny-handly-bits meet the inside rim by the door. Always.

[ewx]

That effect saved me money once! I always spin the drum round as part of checking for hidden socks, and in this case did so in the presence of the washing-machine repairman who had just proposed to replace an expensive bit. The unusual noise it made caused him to change his opinion to "it's totally broken, buy a new washing machine".

[angoel]

The solution is to install RFID tags on your socks. *nods*

[lnr]

In our case it was usually sitting in the bottom of the laundry basket still, and hence went in the next load. Or got sorted into the delicates pile rather than the will-tumbledry pile.

[aiwendel]

Clearly the sock hid in a recess of the washing machine....
Or you now have n-2 socks and haven't realised that a pair have eloped away together...