Mom! I can't find any socks!

If you have kids, you know that matching socks are one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. For some reason socks come into our homes in pairs and then immediately separate and run to the far corners of our homes to hide, and never the two shall meet.  If you do somehow manage to find both halves of a pair, reunite them, and stuff them into your child's drawer, something else magical happens (and not the good kind of magic, but rather dark magic!).  Those nicely folded socks which are so lovingly folded and placed in your child's drawer somehow disappear again! Witchcraft I tell you! It's enough to make a person lose their mind (if you have any mind left to lose after years of unrelenting sleep deprivation).



At my sister last week I saw her do something brilliant. This is not unusual, she does brilliant stuff all the time. But this idea was so brilliant I just HAD to share.

This basket holds roughly 3% of the total socks hidden in the home at any given time. Where the other 97% are, no one will ever know.

My sister has five young children, so consequently she has 4.3 million socks in her home.  Don't we all?  

But instead of folding them and putting them in her kid's rooms, she keeps them all in one place RIGHT NEXT TO THE SHOES!

Shoes AND socks together! Who'd have thought?

Brilliant right? How have we not all been doing this before? So when her children go to the closet to pull out there shoes, they also grab a pair of socks. No more running through the house, digging through dressers, sorting through laundry piles. If there are matched socks to be had, they are sitting right next to the shoes where even the smallest of children can find them.

Just as many of us have a shoe bin near the front door, she also has a sock bin. Simply brilliant.

The glorious family sock bin.