Socks go missing. It’s just a fact of life. And while we may never know what happened to all those socks we’ve lost in the dryer (RIP), at least there’s finally a solution. Bombas, a brilliant sock ...

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Laundry experts have finally weighed in on the mystery of whether your disappearing socks are getting 'eaten' by the dryer. Clorox's in-house scientist Mary Gagliardi, who fittingly goes by Dr.

This woman wants you to know that your missing socks weren’t gobbled up by some goblin. Nor did they vanish into thin air. In her opinion, you’re just probably looking in the wrong place. In a viral ...

Over decades uncounted, one of the accepted laundry truths has been that dryers eat socks. Why they eat socks and where the socks go remains right up there with Sasquatch and the Bermuda Triangle ...

Furious sock-owners have come up with countless theories as to why their socks keep disappearing but nobody has been able to prove them WE have all lost socks but nobody seems to know why or how it ...

One of life's great mysteries is trying to work out where all our socks go. Pairs always seem to get inexplicably separated, with random odd socks turning up without their matching partner. So where ...