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Mancie

07-03-2007 05:58

Womens Work?

How come you can give a women 5 pairs of socks.. and say ..a couple of t-shirts to put in the wash.. and you don't get nowt back?.. or you might get 2 pairs of odd socks back and find a t-shirt 2 months later?...

In t'imes gone by you could get home from work..dinner on t'able, change socks and go down pub...but nowdays you get these fancy washin machines women like to have.. they put a gallon of fabric softening stuff in,gel,cubes... but 4 hours later .. the socks have disappeared!
Never happend when they had good old mangle.. put yer socks in and they came out on t'other end.

entwisi

07-03-2007 06:42

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aye, its the hungry washing machine. They are known to eat socks (at least they are at our house :D )

WillowTheWhisp

07-03-2007 07:53

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It's a well known fact that washing machines eat socks. Ours has been particularly hungry recently.

Mick	07-03-2007 07:56

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just buy all black socks then you allways have a pair:)

WillowTheWhisp

07-03-2007 08:07

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I do that with white ones for the kids but it doesn't stop em disappearing! They get down to about one sock each!

Tinkerbelle

07-03-2007 08:11

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I've noticed more odd pairs of socks recently than I had before and of course blamed it on the hungry washing machine ....... until I found out the pups been nicking them and hiding them in the garden!!! :eek:

AccyMad

07-03-2007 09:44

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Ah bless! I too had that problem when mine was a puppy, he also had a fetish for tights, although the ending to that particular problem wasn't too pleasant - let's just say they didn;t come out naturally :)

accymel

07-03-2007 09:54

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Aye yep the washer is a clothes muching machine - had evidence recently, when my fav cardi came out of washer chewed as did my pillow case:(

So the holes in the kids socks maybe result of attempted washer bites:rolleyes:

grego

07-03-2007 10:10

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 393926)

You could always DIY :D

garinda

07-03-2007 10:37

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Originally Posted by grego (Post 393991)

You could always DIY :D

He probably does.

Which would explain why he was on here all night, and started this thread at 6.58 am, whilst waiting for his delicates to finish.:D

jambutty

07-03-2007 11:51

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If your washing machine is eating socks then the answer is quite simple. Don’t wear socks then you have none to wash. If there are none to wash the machine can't eat them.

However I have trained my washing machine to behave. Everything that gets put in comes out in the same condition that it went in except the items are clean. But my machine does get its revenge. It turns everything inside out including socks when it is feeling particularly grumpy but on good days it is only the odd item.

OK! Nurse! I’ll put that jacket on now I’ve finished typing.

mthead

07-03-2007 11:54

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Isn't there a bag thing you can get made out of netting stuff that you can put your socks and smalls in???

grego

07-03-2007 11:57

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My machine doesn't eat socks either, dont have a problem there, the underwire from bra's, well thats a different story, lost count how many times they've been dragged from the filter.

grego

07-03-2007 11:57

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Originally Posted by mthead (Post 394045)

Isn't there a bag thing you can get made out of netting stuff that you can put your socks and smalls in???

Yeah Betterware:)

entwisi

07-03-2007 12:08

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Just use an old pillow case

<Ian in domesticated shocker!> :D

Neil	07-03-2007 12:11

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Originally Posted by grego (Post 394047)

My machine doesn't eat socks either, dont have a problem there, the underwire from bra's, well thats a different story, lost count how many times they've been dragged from the filter.

Did you notice how Tinks's machine machine does not have that problem :rolleyes: :D.

I have known a baby sock to jam the drum and cause the drive belt to come off on ours.

garinda

07-03-2007 12:26

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 394060)

I have known a baby sock to jam the drum and cause the drive belt to come off on ours.

Is that the truth? Was it a babies sock, or was it your posing pouch?:eek:

Margaret Pilkington

07-03-2007 15:01

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Originally Posted by grego (Post 393991)

You could always DIY :D

I was going to suggest that mancie went out and bought a dolly tub, a posser and a mangle and tried to do the job himself....but you were far more succinct.

Margaret Pilkington

07-03-2007 15:03

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Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 394056)

Just use an old pillow case

<Ian in domesticated shocker!> :D

I like a man who knows about these practical things.

Margaret Pilkington

07-03-2007 15:06

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I dont have any problems with lost socks, or tangled tights.....or bra wires for that matter........I bung the smalls into a zipped cotton cushion cover and VOILA....they all come out clean as a whistle,nothing lost, minimal tangles...and if a bra wire escapes...it is there in the bottom of the bag.

LancYorkYankee

07-03-2007 17:00

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The problem with socks in our house is Joshua. This kid is now 14 years old and refuses to put his dirty socks in the hamper. I find em under the computer table, stuffed in the couches, in the cellar, on me bed, . . .

I've tried to teach him a lesson by taking his dirty socks and putting em under his pillow. I'm not even sure if he's noticed.:p

Brian

grego

07-03-2007 19:08

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I'd leave them on the floor Brian, he may learn when he runs out of clean ones!

lindsay ormerod

07-03-2007 20:44

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I have a shoe box full of odd socks; maybe we should arrange some kind of sock swap type amnesty and see if we can pair some up ? I refuse to believe that my washer has eaten about 25 socks and still works !

Tinkerbelle

07-03-2007 21:48

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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 394060)

Did you notice how Tinks's machine machine does not have that problem :rolleyes: :D.

Nope cause I hand wash mine :p

West Ender

07-03-2007 22:04

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I've got a set of those netting bags (Dunhelm Mill shop - £2.99). I bung all the socks in a bag - and I still find odd ones missing when the wash is done. :confused:

cherokee

08-03-2007 00:25

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Originally Posted by West Ender (Post 394375)

I've got a set of those netting bags (Dunhelm Mill shop - £2.99). I bung all the socks in a bag - and I still find odd ones missing when the wash is done. :confused:

See!!!!! thats the unknown mystery of the munching sock machine...:) and its the only bit thats not in the troubleshooting part of the instructions ..lol!!!:D

Neil	08-03-2007 06:10

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 394072)

Is that the truth? Was it a babies sock, or was it your posing pouch?:eek:

Definitely Emily's sock mate. Being so small it must have got through the small gap between inner and outer drums and was jammed between the inner drum and the drain hole. I was surprised it jammed it as well.

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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle (Post 394362)

Nope cause I hand wash mine :p

After reading your post about violent women where you live I decided to edit this post and remove my last comment :D : D: D

Mancie

09-03-2007 20:43

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I was just thinking of even more reasons to persuade the girls to go back to using washboards and a mangle:
just think of the advantages:

your "carbon footprint"... a massive cut in the use of electicity.

free exercise..no need to drive to the gym therefore saving more carbon emissions.

A member also said that in the old days women only did the washing on monday's...that's whole day in summer... this could mean 16 hours of daylight in which to wash/mangle dry laundry and I'm sure any man would find a way to firmly fix down a mangle in the back yard so it would not wobble about whilst you are mangling.

PMT... you could take out all your tension when mangling..boxer shorts and stuff.

accymel

09-03-2007 20:50

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 395354)

You're a cheeky git PMSL!!

I know what i will mangle:rolleyes: :D

cashman

09-03-2007 22:19

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think mancies got a valid point, the Greens will love it.:p

ANNE	10-03-2007 00:56

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It's the sock monster that lives in the washer that eats them.

West Ender

10-03-2007 22:01

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Originally Posted by ANNE (Post 395459)

It's the sock monster that lives in the washer that eats them.

As described in Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather". :D

I think I've got a breeding pair in my kitchen. :(

Gayle

10-03-2007 22:09

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I wish we did have a sock monster who ate them in our house. Instead what we have is a small boy who likes to take his socks off and leave them all around the house. He leaves them in the centre of the living room and the hallway, he also likes to put them in less obvious places so that you can be sat watching tv and notice hidden under the cushion a school sock.

grannyclaret

11-03-2007 11:35

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you could try washing them by hand,,unless of course they stand up on their own ,too sweaty :eek: :eek:

katex

11-03-2007 12:25

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Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 395962)

what we have is a small boy who likes to take his socks off and leave them all around the house. He leaves them in the centre of the living room and the hallway, he also likes to put them in less obvious places so that you can be sat watching tv and notice hidden under the cushion a school sock.

Perhaps we should invent something like the mittens that were attached together by a long piece of elastic that you had to thread up your sleeve round the neck and down the other ... didn't lose one though ... :D

Not sure if would be very comfortable for the men however threading up through one leg, over the 'you know whats' and down the other leg. :eek:

garinda

11-03-2007 12:31

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Originally Posted by katex (Post 396105)

That idea sounds a bit too much like tights!:eek:

katex

11-03-2007 12:45

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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 396110)

That idea sounds a bit too much like tights!:eek:

Well, they might come back as a fashion someday ..everything goes full cycle .. more interesting for us women (wil comment no further) :D Solve the problem of lost socks too.

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