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There are many jokes about how washing machines or dryers eat socks, and many Youtube videos about their fate. If you have worn out or unmatched socks – this is the podcast for you! Thanks to Alexis Sullivan for the listener question.

Missing Sock Jokes

• Dryer Lint: the cremated remains of missing socks
• Socks entering a dryer in pairs – the lead sock says “Okay everyone, remember the buddy system!”
• Two socks at a bar having drinks and one says “No kidding! I’m recently single too!”
• A group of people in purgatory see piles of socks, and they say “at least we know where all the missing socks from the dryer went.” (Wiley Ink)
• “I’m convinced that every time I lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as an extra Tupperware lid.”

I wove my “Belt of Power” project from worn out socks

Creative Reuse Socks Projects Mentioned in Podcast

• • • Trashmagination’s Pinterest Board of Sock Projects
    • Crazy as a Loom Weaving Studio
    • Sew into little socks or mitts for your baby
    • Sew socks into fingerless gloves if you work in a cold office
    • Homeopathic hot pads
    • Make tiny stockings for an advent calendar
    • Bean Bags
    • Hobby Horses
    • Sock Doughnuts
    • Barbie clothes
    • Rainbow bubble snake
    • Sock Sloth
    • Socktopuses
    • Pusheen plush from a sock

Sock Loops Ready for Weaving at Crazy as a Loom Studio, 2009

Show Details

• • Script for this podcast episode about creative reuse of socks (not a transcript but gives the main ideas)
  • The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade.