As a parent of a small child we buy socks by the bulk I swear (thank you Costco!), and yet we almost never have any matching socks. At any given time there are at least a dozen lonely socks sitting in a box waiting for their mate to turn up. Sometimes I get lucky and I find a sock hiding behind the couch or under a mattress. And then there are the socks that have been sitting there for over a year now patiently waiting for their other half to make an appearance.
Where do these missing socks go? My favorite explanation is that there is a tiny little monster hiding in my laundry room that likes to snack on toddler sized, car printed socks. Or they are getting left behind in the dryer and one of my neighbors has a small collection of toddler sized, car printed socks. The latter is probably the most logical explanation, but I'm going to stick with the sock eating monster for now. How do you combat the sock monster in your household?
