Mom's Great Sock Idea

I saw a commercial on TV that said something along the lines of, "We all lose socks in the dryer." I thought, "I DON'T!" You may be asking why I am exempt from this basic rule of modern life and the answer is that my mother is a genius. Truly.

When we were young, my mom got sick of spending hours matching the various socks belonging to her sizable family. Her solution was to buy a couple boxes of safety pins and before we put our socks in the dirty clothes we had to pin them together. In theory, we were to leave the safety pin attached to one of the socks at all times but that didn't quite work. Honestly, I don't think this sock program lasted more than a few months. The biggest problems were lost safety pins and that some of the pins rusted and stained socks.

When I began buying knee socks and other fun socks I remembered this idea of my mom's and decided to give it another go. I purchased my pins and have been pinning them ever since. I don't leave my a pin in my socks, they go on a magnet on my dresser and I just grab one before I drop the pair in the basket at the end of the day. Not only do I still have all of my cute socks but I also cut one time-consuming step out of my laundry and I never have to search for that one sock that has to be somewhere in my drawer. Now if I could only get Branden to pin his socks! Ok, I'll be honest, all of his socks look the same so pairing them isn't all that hard and if one disappears then we just have an extra sock until another goes. :P

This may not work for your family- like I said, it didn't last long for us- but I thought I'd share my mom's idea all the same.