The mystery of the single sock… just solved

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The most persistent puzzle of the house that dissolves family peace was finally explained

One of the biggest, most timeless and most persistent mysteries of the household is these orphan socks that appear on the clothesline and cause cracks in the marital building.

It is extremely rare that it has not happened to you, as its law is the least shocking! It is as if something comes out and eats one sock, leaving the orphaned second in laundry to wonder what the hell has happened.

The internet has called this mystery "lost sock syndrome", as it happens to everyone. And of course it has an explanation, just as interesting: the sock is eaten by the washing machine!

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A couple from California spoke to the website "Bored Panda" and revealed the creepy fact: they found a bunch of single socks in their washing machine when they tried to repair it. And it was not just socks, but underwear and whatever one might think, even money, but also a credit card.

This is what Cathy Hinz and her husband suffered, but he opened his eyes to everyone.

"Well, for all of you who swear that the washing machine eats you small things and the" professionals "and others have told you that this myth is not true, here is the proof", providing the relevant visual material.

My husband even works in the white goods industry: "I do not know what to say," says Cathy. But he has never seen anything like it. "

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A few years ago, Audrey Reed-Granger, a spokeswoman for the Whirlpool Institute of Fabric Science, confessed that laundry was indeed starving and devouring our socks. But he said that this is just one of the three ways in which our socks are lost.

So either the lost sock does not even reach the washing machine, as it falls somewhere, or it reaches and is actually eaten by the washing machine, especially when we fill it with clothes and the smaller ones slip in its bowels, or they end up lost in the dryer, where they can get stuck in make pants or a shirt and find them after days.

Now you know…