Researchers claim that the average person 0 MISPLACES 1.3 socks every month. We believe our socks disappear in the wash, yet it seems somewhat 17 that having put them all into the machine, some still come out without their partner.

It may appear to be an 18 problem, but intrigued scientists have even come up with a formula to predict the likelihood of socks going missing.

How attentive we are during our 19 with clothes and machine, and how positive we feel about doing the washing, has an effect on how successful it is. Washing at 20 intervals rather than a specified time each week could result in sock loss which goes 21 with them straying under beds or radiators in the meantime. And the bigger and more complex the load the combination of darks, whites and fabric types, the more likely it is we’ll 22 the fact that some socks were already missing when we loaded the washer.

Washing isn’t an 23 difficult task, but perhaps we all too often 24 the impact of abandoning our socks where we take them off, leading to them ‘vanishing’!