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Sock Pixie - give all my socks back!
Right, this is a bit of a ranting post, so be warned.
However, it has to be said. And I know you agree with me. You really do.
Sock pixies do exist
I am fed up with the socks in this house.
I put four pairs in the wash and I come out with four un-matching socks.
Where the hell do the others actually go?
I have taken this regular event to mean that there is irrefutable proof that sock pixies really and truly do exist. Perhaps they live next door to the tooth fairy? Perhaps they use these socks to create wonderfully intricate quilts which they then sell on to all the magical, mythical creatures down the road.
Maybe the unicorns use them to keep warm in their wonderfully, sparkly, glittery stables.
Whatever they do with them – THEY DON’T STAY IN MY HOUSE.
Let the unicorns freeze
My daughter and my son have a pile of odd socks on the top of their chest of drawers.
I have just counted them – there are SIX in each pile.
How does that actually happen?
Someone is stealing our socks.
So, to the little sock pixie that manages the shift in this part of the world, will you please give them back – Now. Just let the unicorns get cold, please.
It’s the kind of thing that can really push a mum over the edge.
Do you have a sock pixie? If you do, please tell us about him. Have you ever seen him? Is he indeed a him? Personally, I think he must be as only a bloke could be this annoying.
If you figure out the secret to odd sock please let me know. The same thing happens in our house and it drives me insane!
We have an odd sock box, where odd socks live waiting for their long lost partner to return. It rarely happens!
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I remember that my Mum always used to have a pile of odd socks in her room and I could never understand why because when I started doing my own washing, I never lost any. Then I started having more to wash for, and things started to get separated into different washes, and now I also have a pile of odd socks! I would love to know where they go!
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If you find out where they go – do let me know!
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Now THIS I can relate to! When the odd sock pile gets to around 30 in our house, I just chuck the lot! Found your blog on ‘blow your own blog horn’ btw.
I’m not sure we have a sock pixie but the socks certainly go somewhere!
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Oh I feel your pain! I recently found dozens down the back of a radiator but other than that I have no idea where the little buggers go!
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Maybe that’s where they live – in the radiator pipes…might explain all that banging?!?
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Oh i’m so glad it’s not just me – I have a carrier bag of odd socks that is now almost full, and I seem to buy new socks for Olivia (2) every week!
I religiously budle the pairs of socks toogether when she takes them off, put them in the washing machine, then those unicorn loving pixies come and steal them mid cycle!
And of course, those pixies are watching and waiting for the moment you finally give in and throw an odd sock away, then they strategically place it’s partner somewhere you can stumble across it a few days later; behind the sofa, at the back of a drawer, in the toy box.
I think they do it on purpose. You know how some kids like poking ants with sticks? We are the pixies’ ants, and our odd socks are their sticks…
Love it! I think your pixie’s must be of a higher order than mine…I haven’t had them give a sock back yet, and certainly not as soon as I throw its partner away. But I am now waiting for this inevitable turn of events to occur….perhaps the unicorns are a tad picky and the pixie’s bring back the ones they don’t like…
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