Washing Machine Eats Laundry

Ah, this is a necessary sacrifice to the gods of clean washing.
Our modern low energy, low water usage machine doesn't eat socks...but then it doesn't get the damn washing very clean . Maybe if Mrs Cat ritually shreds a sock before each wash...would that help?

Del

Only socks, Ive got books and CD, scarified to the same Deity, I think its called house keeping, as I'm never right its anyone guess where they are? No solution, cant complain about the merits.

Regards JD.

I have a small black hole right here in my house, although I not exactly sure where. It sucks my stuff in all the time. I can never find anything, and I'm sure my advancing age has little to do with it. Maybe the dog ate it.

My mother had one of those washing machines with the roller wringers on the top. My sister got her arm cought in it, and has a scar to this day.

I can identify with your sister. We still have that old washer and I occasionally use it if I need something washed quick.

Dr. Science, from Duck's Breath Theater, who admits to not being a real doctor because he has a masters degree - in science, said:

It has been proven that old socks and other odd items actually slip into the 5th dimension.

Because of the probable clash and corresponding intersection between the 5th dimension and out 3-D time-space there will be a sudden devaluation in socks when this happens. Consequently, I have recently pull all of my stocks from the socks industry due to the impending crash once all the old socks return and flood the market.

The 5th dimension is also known as the "hosezone".

When playing the sock market buy low, sell high.

And watch out for a "run" on them.

Cranking the numbers, as you imply, does not yield the results you postulate.

Quite the contrary, the net quantum effect would yield a sock anti-sock pair, with the anti-sock stuck in Higg's bosom.

Up until quite recently what you suggest was generally regarded as true and I would have accepted your arguments. However, ongoing experiments at Fermilab using a 1989 Sears Kenmore washing machine modified to work as a bubble chamber have shown that there are some intriguing unknowns.

Most men thoughtlessly (some wives shriek "deliberately") turn their socks inside out during their (hopefully) daily de-sockification process. This inverted form can in some thought experiments be indistinguishable from your aforementioned anti-sock. And there has also been some debate about the effect of perfumed fabric softeners. Recent cutbacks have forced the use of generic-brand softeners, which are notorious for unwanted Z bosons. While these don't affect the net charge of the wash, they do strongly clog up the drains after just a couple of laundry loads, forcing lengthy halts to experimentation.

Unfortunately, no researcher has yet to adequately apply Scrodinger's equation directly to hoisery. Some progress was thought to have been made at CERN, but after some peer review it was found that the teams had scandalously interchanged men's socks and ladies' knee-high stockings in their calcuations. This sort of mathmatics might pass the more casual European morals, but concervative US and Brittish scientific publications refuse to print such blatent pornography.

You know, I completely overlooked turning socks inside out.

Good catch! ;-)

I have begun turning underwear and shirts inside-out before washing and guess what, when they come out of the dryer they are ALL right side out. I've beat the system. On to Las Vegas!

Thinking of socks getting hot and bothered in the dryer, I wonder what the gestational period of a sock is... and where did all these tiny socks come from...

OH NO! the dreaded Sock Monster strikes again! If you do not feed him the occasional odd sock or two every few washings he will come out of the machine, looking for small children or pets.

Its not the wash its that they escaped and did not want to be put back into another smelly situation. Usually happens when worn to the point they stand up by themselves.

It is a mini black hole! And as further evidence that black holes actually do leak, the matter reappears in the hall coat closet, only restructured as wire clothes hangers!

It's not a mini black hole, it's actually a tesseract http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

They are all still there, just not where you can see or wear them. Personally I think the washing machine is getting framed by the dryer.

Guest, you are a silly guy. Those darn Z bosens. But the fact is I suspected the sneeky friggin dryer all the time. Always just sitting there, with that smirk on it's face, blaming everything on the washing machine. Who saw the sock last anyway, hum?

Somewhere in Indonesia there is a lady who can't cook anything in her microwave because, every time she opens the door, the damn thing is full of socks.

Can you tell me if this sock demon is related to the "proven to be alive and well" creature that has been hoarding 1/2" wrenches since they were invented? And he only takes the good ones.

OMG! I just tore the shop apart looking for my good 1/2" box wrench instead of the cheap pot metal one that is easy to find. Although they may transmogrify into 7/16" ones - those I have a half dozen of for some reason.

Have you noted that this creature is particularly attracted to houses with teenage boys who have no idea where they went.

Bill

It must be the same sock demon that is confiscating each and ever 13 mm combination box / open end wrench I buy. Can't keep one on the rack overnight!

I've even built a number of traps to catch him / it red-handed with the wrenches. He eludes every trap set.

It's does sound fun but it can happened at the rinse to spin cycle were there sometimes the drum in some models or the motor -trans switch rotation for spinning action. This is where those smalls items probably fly out of the hook or jump the drum top barrier sealing protector which is like an screen to holds to items at the drum. But, It for some reason or unbalancing rotation make the drum wibble out, it could probably what it take to have these items go bye bye into the drain system or get trap in between the outside drum and the machine housing itself. But it is fun some how to see all these points of views in here. Huuu Laa Laaaah..! He hii hee haa.. Nice deal Good Day All Now...

Lock And Tag before Opening for Safety,

MC

Sundry items which disappear from the washing machine, (eg socks) and from the workshop (eg screwdrivers) and the office (eg ball point pens) actually transmutate into cheap wire coat hangers.

Just look in your wardrobe!!!!!!

I once helped my brother replace a pump on his washer. The pump had a sock in it. The only way I could see for that to happen is it floating over the tub in that small crack. I have several half-pairs of socks in my drawer. The mate will never come back from the black hole until you throw away the one you have. It's one of Murphy's laws. Speaking of Murphy, there's a song about overalls in a chowder.

Good post. It has the same potential for discussion as Kris' cast iron bath thread!

As i Always like to say.

"The item you have lost will always be in the last place you look."

Not if you keep on looking after you have found it...

If you keep looking after you found it then you must have really been looking for something else and just dind't realize it.

So you start looking from the last place

I do a lot of biking, and I find your 1/2 in. wretches, or 13mm, laying in the street all the time. I have a collection of them. And some darn nice ones too, Snap-on, Craftsman, Armstrong, etc. I like those new ratcheting box wrenches.

You do a job, leave it on the air-cleaner, mine. I don't stop to pick up socks though.

Might be your machine is not really a washing machine. It may be a time machine. So the socks may be going to some distant future.

Next time you try sitting in it. You may reach Future or may be in Past

I had a similar problem. One my washer, there is a large rubber like plastic ring around outer edge of the inside drum that I had to replace. You have to remove the agitator and the inner drum to get to it.

I believe that we are overlooking a very basic variable found in all the energy transfer equations we learned in Physics 101.

I suggest that what we are discussing is really a little know variant of a nonetheless compelling and constant companion to all energy and mass transfer transactions

h_{s ⁼} Sock entropy!

The reason more modern equipment has a lesser efect is only due to increased efficiency - but ever so often the equation MUST balance and walla! that brown and yellow argyle vanishes as Yin and Yang smile at each other across the void ....

I have assigned this problem to our resident expert on...The Alfred Newman of all things, if you will..............

His conclusion is as follows:

Observed incidentally, that the fully intergrated analysis test program adds out sized overwhelming folkloristic significance to the subsystem low compatibility testings differential without para mental variations.

Thus the interrelation of the systems variable fluidity, due to the unbalanced chemical mix ratio to solids, and/or subsystems technologies are not subject to descriptive reactualization's, in them selves.

Similarly, the earliest discussions expressing deviance can be stated in such a way to alter definition, ie: define permitting imposition of variational contexts in affected ridgy rules.

Based on our collective field work, confirmed before the lab explosion, in non domestically applications of high standards, leads to the proposal of my irrelevant conclusion is:

IT IS FUNCTIONALLY INDEPENDANT OF STRUCTURALISTIC CONCEPT WHICH MAXIMISES DIRECT FIRM RELATIVITY OF THE COLOR OF THE TESTED SOCK

and the probability of the proportional success, yet minimizes the clock time defining contingental basic formulation. The argyle sock caused the explosion

IT WAS NETHER THE WASHING MACHINE NOR THE DRIER...

IT WAS THE SOCK MONSTER!

MR. GUY

It's not that they disappear into some black hole or dimension, it's all the fungus and little critters in our feet.

When you put them in the wash, the action of soap, water and the spinning enable them to form into mobile lifeforms. Then they crawl and slither into the little crooks and crannys of the washing machine where they eventually die and turn to dust.

Try opening the back of the washing machine, you'll see.

Sparkstation,

Clearly your socks can be found in the form of the lint removed from the dryer screen. That stuff has to come from somewhere. Probably a result of planned obsolescence by the sock industry.

I also have a black hole in my home............2 in fact, found in the form of 6 and 9 year old boys. Now where did that Craftsman 1/2" wrench go this time.

Washing machine is dirty one, eating something stinky

In college I solved this problem by use of a sock bag.

Only laer did I discover my error, when the sock bag disappearred. It seems I actually only changed the level of granularity.