Problem:
Have you ever just finished doing your laundry
only to find that somehow the kids’ socks have been swallowed up into nowhere? You search the dryer and retrace your
footsteps back to the washer and…nothing!
I have found myself on my knees searching high and low for missing
matches. I have been so desperate, that
on occasion, I have tried to make a match out of two stray socks justifying to
myself that they really do belong together. Well, it must be the Sock Monster
that swoops in on unsuspecting Moms in the hopes of tormenting them and have
mismatched little feet everywhere. Because
of the Sock Monster I have made numerous trips to Walmart replacing pair and
pairs of socks. This got old fast for me
and soon stopped being cute after my second or third trip. After I began examining how much I was
spending on gas and socks, it became my personal mission to defeat that ugly
monster! Maybe you haven’t experienced this crime, but be prepared. This may happen to you too one day.
Solution:
On complaining to a
close friend of mine, she shared the well-known trick on placing socks in a
lingerie mesh bag before washing so that they get clean and are secured in one
place. Most, importantly, they can be found
at most Dollar stores. Now, you know I
had to over think and over complicate matters.
First, I was challenged by where to place this bag of dirty socks during
the week as socks accumulate. You see, I thought it was too much effort on my
part to sort through a week’s worth of laundry separating and bagging the socks
before I actually do laundry. Secondly, my
idea of securing the dirty socks as I go sounded good, but where would I put
it? I did not want to put the mesh bag
in a drawer with other clean items. Also, I certainly did not want to rearrange
all my drawers so that I could have a separate drawer just for dirty socks and
this bag. Most importantly, I did not want to have to walk over to the hamper
and zip dirty socks in bag as I dump soiled clothes. What is a Mom to do? So I took matters into
my own hands and changed that drab little white bag into a Nursery show
piece. All it took was a few bucks and a
bit of creativity.
Ultimately, I went to
the local discount fabric store and bought a spool of pretty pink ribbon for
little over a dollar and two little pink decorative accents. I adjusted the ribbon to my ideal length,
sewed one end of the ribbon to the mesh laundry bag and the other end to the
other side of the bag. To make it look
cute, I then sewed on the embellishments to the end of each of the
ribbons. It literally took about 10
minutes. I promise. So now, I hang my new sock bag on an area of
the changing station, so that now as I change the baby, the socks are stylishly
secured and safe to make it through the laundry for another day of play! The beauty about this is that you can hang it
anywhere. For Moms with older children,
just hang it next to the laundry basket.
For the Moms with teenagers, maybe teens will be kind enough to dump
their socks in a separate pile next to their pile of clothes of clothes on the
floor so that it will be easier to collect and to place in bag later on. They do make mess bags in all shapes and
sizes! You could even swap ribbon out for any material of choice that would
suit the room or the child. So, there
you have my tip, my Mom shortcut. With this tool, moms everywhere will be
defeating that ugly, nasty, Sock Monster and sending it back to wherever it
came from in the first place.
Disclaimer: I already know the term Sock Monster is not
biblical
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