Day 3 - Still no pals

Well, not long home from work. Pretty tired and a wee bit disappointed cos still no responders to the blog. Hey, Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

For today's task, have decided to tackle the sock drawer. I have a dresser-type thing in the kitchen where 2 drawers are nominated for the socks. I suggest you have at least 1 drawer or container set aside wherever you sort the dry washing into piles.

Anyway, until I did this, me, my husband, and the kids openly spoke about the 'sock monster'. Have you got one? He's the dude who eats the socks you are looking for to make pairs. He still exists but doesn't get fed quite so well now, thanks to this system.

Firstly, I dont stress about making sure they are paired up for the washing-machine. Just toss them in! I do white socks with white washing, red with red and dark with dark etc. When dry, either by hanging outside on one of those wee circular clothes pegged sock hanger things or having been through the drier, I just separate light from dark into these 2 drawers I was telling you about.

Then, like tonight, for instance, I tip them out on a surface with good light and play the 'sock game'. My mum used to enjoy playing this game when she came to stay, seeing how many pairs she could make. It helps if you buy same type or colour of socks for each person in the family. Like, one of my girls likes trainer socks, the other likes funky looking ankle socks etc.

Even young kids enjoy 'the game'. You can reward the one who finds the most pairs, for example. Odd leftovers are left in the drawer, out of sight, out of mind till the next round. I suggest this gets written into your 'home handbook', (a notebook), specifically set aside to schedule tasks. The sock game ideally should be played once a week. In your notebook, just head up a page "weekly tasks" and this could be the first task on it.

Sooooo.. let me know what you think and if you have any great ideas on how to sort socks. See you tomorrow.

xx