Time for Yourself and Those Mismatched Socks

I swear I really do this and it works for me.  Granted it's only for a certain age range (where they understand money is useful) and a high level of competitiveness among siblings helps the success rate...lucky me, I have that.  My younger boys are ages eight to twelve

years, and would compete over who gets to eat the moldy food from the frig just because I ask "Who wants the LAST bit of moldy food from the frig?"  Sibling competition sometimes rocks.  On with my advice...

Those pesky mismatched socks.  The socks that are left over when you do the laundry...they are not in the laundry basket, not in the dryer, not in the washer, not hanging from the ceiling fans, not on your kids hands as puppets, not lying dirty in the floor because you picked them all up and washed them...AND (this is a two-for-one tip)

You want just a few minutes of "me time".

I no longer deal with this chore because it is just one of those things that drives me nutso, but if I do not have to actually see the mismatched socks, it's all good. 

Solution:  Give the sock-sorting-putting-them-away chore to the kids.  When they call "Mom, some of these socks don't have matches!"  You reply "I'll pay you fifty cents for every sock mate you find.  Now go, search the house."   Presto...they're off...and you have a few minutes to yourself.  And you probably will not be out any money because after all, YOU never find the mates, right?

And if this advice does not work for you then have fun checking out the external link posted below.  It is just the coolest idea, but it is geared for girls...I, of course, have boys.