Decluttering Challenge: Day 3

Where do all the socks go?

Last light I sorted through the odd sock drawer!  I managed to put together four pairs that had a match but the other 21 had no partner.  How can this  be?  Where do they all go?

I remember when my eldest was a teen she used to ask me where all her socks got to.  I used to tell her about the mystery of the odd socks that everyone seemed to be victim of.  She didn't believe me.  Now she has her own place she wonders too about the mystery of the odd socks.

I'm not going to throw them away until I've decluttered the whole house.  Just in case!  If at the end of the declutter, I can't find the matching pairs then I will either try and donate them to a playgoup/school to make sock puppets (will this infringe health and safety, I ask?) or I will throw them away.

It also makes me wonder how many things we misplace only we don't notice because they are not part of a pair.

For those of you who really want to tackle this annoyance there is a handy little gadget sold by lakeland: Sock Savers


The missing scissors

I have spent quite a lot of precious time acusing people of taking my scissors.  Over the last three days I have found 6 pairs of scissors in the places  I have decluttered.  Mmmmm interesting.  It was me after all.  Sorry everyone!