Always wash socks together so both white socks can absorb the same
amount of the bright red dye running off your sister's brand new t-shirt.
(Unfortunately, usually one sock still ends up turning pink while the
other remains a bleachy-clean white.)
If you put two socks into the laundry and only one came out: the
washer ate it.
If you took two socks out of the washer and only one came out of the
dryer: the dryer ate it. (Basically, both the washer and the dryer are
bottomless pits, full of socks.)
If a sock needs to be darned, you either need a new pair or the dryer
ate it.
Always buy more than one of the same pair of socks, that way, when the
washer eats one from one pair and the dryer one from the other, you've
still got a whole pair left.
A sock-sack is a place where pairless socks can wait until everyone
has outgrown them anyway.
Socks can be made into hand-puppets, but never will be.