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If it looks like youMore simple socks that corresponding pairs, you are in good company. According to a Samsung study, the average personloses about 15 socks a year. This means that you will say goodbye to about 1,264 socks during your life. And while losing socks, it is an inevitability in life, where these missing socks end up with a complete mystery - so far, that is to say.

Cathy Hinz, who is responsible for the property with her husband in California, made a crack in the curious case of theSuspicious socks recently. In an article published on bored Panda, Hinz revealed that her husband had a surprising discovery after removing the lower front panel on a dryer:dozens of socks, pairs of underwear and even a credit card. (When it came out the water pump of the machine, it also found nearly $ 7 in Change-Cha-Ching!)

But that does not always answer the most urgent question of everyone: how do single socks slip through the cracks and will be where they do not belong? Well, according toEd Christie, owner of the repair of the Christie New York device, you can thankOverload your machine For all these slopes less soft.

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"When I see socks outside the drum of the dryer, it's usually the result of overload, and that'sForce socks in areas Where they are not supposed to be, "says Christie. They tend to end up in the plush filter area, between the drum and the wardrobe of the dryer, or in the exhaust duct at the back of the dryer.

"The dryer drum is a cylinder and it has a felt gasket at the rear and a felt seal at the front," explains Christie. "The socks pass in front of the seal of felt and that's how they come out."

Mystery solved!

But there are some bad news: Christie says that "you can not do anything to correct this problem" on a mechanical level in a relatively new machine with its parts intact. This is because these minor gaps in the dryer are needed to maintain battery mobility.

However, youcan Ask a professional to check the bearings of your machine and change his seals if they are worn. "But if they are not worn, it's overloaded that it's the problem" and there is unfortunatelyNothing you can do at your machine, he says.

This does not mean that you have to settle for a lifetime of incompatible socks. There is always an inexpensive solution to your wandering sock problems that can be relatively obvious. "Use a garment bag so that small objects, like socks, are not separated outside the drum", Note Christie. It's that simple! And for more small mysteries of resolved life, checkThat's what happens to all your returned vacation gifts.