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Abbynormal

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As most of you know, I am a stay at home mom. I could work outside the home, but I choose not to at this time. I do all the things for my family a typical homemaker would on a daily basis. But, I am starting to notice some slacking in the picking-up-after-yourself department.

This is where my experiment comes in to play. There is a gray sock in the hall. It has been there for approximately 10 days. Everyone steps on or over this sock umpteen times everyday. I have removed the sock to sweep and mop. I then put the sock back. Today I replaced it with a clean sock for fear it would start growing things. Am I the only one who sees this sock?? It's not my sock! Why should I have to pick it up?? Just because I stay at home and that is my "job"?

So, that's it. I'm watching this sock. I want to see how long the sock will stay there before someone actually bends over and picks it up. I want to see if the sock will become a permanent fixture in the hall. But most of all I want to be able to come back to this thread and SHOW them how long it has taken someone to pick it up.

Faerygdds

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 10:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK.. first of all let me say.. I am hysterically laughing at your post!!! That is so funny... the sock has taken on a life of it's own... and if it stays there long enough... can the bacteria on it become a sentient life form??? Will it become Super Sock???

Keep us updated! :)

Sunshinemiss

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROTFLMAO Abby!!!

We will be your witnesses.

Isn't amazing the tunnelvision some folks (mostly men in my experience, with apologies to all men who DO pick up after themselves) can develop?

Keep us updated on the Great Sock Experiment!

Wargod

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 10:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, please keep us updated! I truly thought this was something unique to my house and relatively new since I quit work a few weeks ago. My husband has got to the point that he takes his socks off and leaves them on the floor (in the living room) until I pick them up. I just thought it was because me being a "new" housewife was a novelty or something!

Sunshinemiss

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 10:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think you are on to something big here, Abby. Ths could be a great thesis or dissertation.

Definitely has struck a nerve!

Mssilhouette

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 10:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Breaking news...Stay at home mom Abbynormal has decided to start the Great Sock Experiment.

There has been intersted rumors in the scientific community. Grumblings of Nobel prize in science has been bantered about.

We go live to the infamous sock as it lays for 24 hours in the hallway. Will the sock make it through the week. Is it doomed to be stepped on, spilled over until it becomes threadbare?

Will it be assumed that it is actually hiding a bigger stain and thereby does not require moving.

Only time will tell we will keep you informed at

SOCKWATCH 2002!

Juju2bigdog

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 11:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Webcam!!!!

Abbynormal

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 11:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG! MsSillyette you kill me, you really do!

Abbynormal

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 11:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Juju! I do need a sockcam don't I? I did take a picture of the sock about 10 mins ago. Next thing we'll be naming it!!

Sage

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 12:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This reminds me of an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. There was a sock wadded up on the floor, that in its wadded up shape looked exactly like Abraham Lincoln's head. I still think of that sock every once and a while, and chuckle to myself.

Let's name the sock "Abe".

Wcv63

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 12:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I can tell you from experience that sock will stay there until you finally break down and pick it up. I went "on strike" once. Nobody noticed except me. Well I'm sure they noticed. They just didn't care. Sigh.

Tess

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 01:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh goodness this is funny. "Abe the Sock" on webcam. By tomorrow afternoon I'm sure there will be graphics in here. I may not sleep at all--just laugh all night long. Hahahahaaaaaaaaa.

Christina

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 03:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good one Abby!!!
I am always threatening not to pick up the juice boxes in my son basement bedroom. I keep telling him the ants will invade his room. I have been tempted. But.....ooooh guess who would clean up that one?

Fruitbat

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 03:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, this is hysterical!

Put a $20 (or $50, depending on the insentive needed) bill in the sock and tell your family you have hidden $20 dollars somewhere and the one who finds it can keep it. Mention that cleaning something is the clue to finding it.

Wcv63

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 04:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fruitbat, I will bet you that the $20.00 will be found and the sock returned to its place on the floor sans prize. And I'm not a betting woman.

Car54

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 04:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe you could offer to let your husband power wash the hallway.

Gail

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 04:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sockwatch Day 2 !!!

This is cute!

Fruitbat

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 04:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wcv, I will not bet on that. You are onto something there.

Faerygdds

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 06:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK.. how about this... put a 5 in the sock and DON'T tell anyone... That way, when someone eventually does pick up the sock.. it will be a great find. My mother had a rule about keeping all the money she found when she did laundry...

After each laundry day she would brag on how much she made (I now think she made some of the numbers up, but maybe not). When I got to be old enough guess what household chore *I* wanted to do? She was sneaky like that.

How old are these kids???

Neko

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 06:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahahaahaha!!

Sockwatch 2002!!
Day 2!
Has "Abe the Sock" been picked up?
Tune in to find out!

This is hilarious...BUT..I probably shouldn't be laughing.
I had(have) a tendancy to take off my socks and leave them anywhere in the house but my room and later I'd find them thrown against my door in a little sock pile!

Mware

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 06:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I'm hooked! Who needs Big Brother now? I think I'll just stay on this thread for the next three months or so.

Who wants to help me with Live Feed posting?

Kaili

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 06:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
hee hee...I like the $5 idea (not telling them). The funniest part is the fact that you replaced the sock! I love it!

My boyfriend will leave a soda can sitting for days- when I point it out he replies that he's going to pick it up (like he's been thinking about it for 3 days and never got around to it). He's very bad at putting things back (like books on a shelf) when he takes them out. Doesn't matter if he's next to the bookshelf- it will NOT go back there! Drives me nuts! Socks too :)

Bigfan

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 08:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You guys are a hoot!! I'm thinking of how long I would have to wait on the same thing!!

I have been a stay at home wife for most of my 28 years of marriage and in the early years it use to drive me bonkers with sock balls. I finally started looking at them as gifts that I was giving my husband when I picked them up. I told my hubby when I had reached my limit that I had given him to many gifts. Needless to say, he wanted to know what gifts. I told him of the sock ball gifts and he got much better. Still after many, many years from time to time I still tell him that I have been giving him to many gifts! Each time, he gets better at taking care of himself and it has made the job more of a joy for both of us.

Faerygdds

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 08:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK... the following are a couple of the funnier ideas my husband rattled off this morning. Man was he one a roll... had me in stitches for 45 minutes..my tummy hurts now :)

- After a week put a mini cupcake with candle on a small plate and place it next to the sock while the kids are away... See if the cupcake disappears and/or the sock.

- Put up a mini stonehenge around the sock. When someone asks you what's up with that sock... you say something to the effect of... it's so the little pagan germs have somewhere to worship

- Go out and get a pair or baby socks and place one next to it - it's reproducing :)

- Before dinner play some classic rock and hold up a lighter while standing next to the sock. Sway and hold vigil with the sock for all to see.

- Get one of those little teddy bears that you put on cakes and place it with the sock... it needs a friend

I can't remember anymore of them...

Hootyhoot

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 08:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
We have had this cartoon posted on our bulletin board for years:
Woman says: Lance, when are yoou going to move that dresser up to the attic for me?
Man replies (he's reading a book): I said I'd do it, Gloria.
Woman says: Saying and doing are two different things.
Man replies (he's still reading a book): Thank you for understanding.