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Our children kept doing this so we attached a string to it. 

I've just found the bell in my head that this was ringing: I once drilled a hole through the end of a pencil to attach it to my piano with a piece of string, after months of having to go searching for the stolen pencil when I needed to mark up some piano music that I was studying!

Pens always go missing in my house!

That is actually a very good idea. I may have to try this

If I wear odd socks and someone notices I say that I have another pair just like them at home ....

I sometimes find creative ways to justify a pair being a pair - like "they both have animals on" or "they both have stripes" :-)

Wish our sock monster would take partners smelly socks, but no its fussy and steals the clean ones! 

Good plan for the odd socks, I save ours for going over shoes in icy weather.

It doesn't stop the sock imp stealing the socks, but I try to always buy the same colour/style of socks (plain black).  That way they always match up.  Even if the style is slightly different it isn't noticeable.

Every house has a sock monster! Rather mysteriously they only ever seem interested in taking one sock out of a pair of socks! Perhaps I should start making ‘sock monster’ cuddly toys out of the odd socks and sell them on eBay to make money out of this misfortune? Maybe this is how the sock monster cuddly toy craze started (there’s loads for sale online, odd socks made into cuddly toys) 

Every house has a sock monster! Rather mysteriously they only ever seem interested in taking one sock out of a pair of socks! Perhaps I should start making ‘sock monster’ cuddly toys out of the odd socks and sell them on eBay to make money out of this misfortune? Maybe this is how the sock monster cuddly toy craze started (there’s loads for sale online, odd socks made into cuddly toys) 

That is actually a very good idea. I may have to try this

If I wear odd socks and someone notices I say that I have another pair just like them at home ....

I sometimes find creative ways to justify a pair being a pair - like "they both have animals on" or "they both have stripes" :-)

Wish our sock monster would take partners smelly socks, but no its fussy and steals the clean ones! 

Good plan for the odd socks, I save ours for going over shoes in icy weather.

It doesn't stop the sock imp stealing the socks, but I try to always buy the same colour/style of socks (plain black).  That way they always match up.  Even if the style is slightly different it isn't noticeable.