If the washer ate half of a pair of socks leaving you with an unmated pair, don’t throw away the unmated one. When you have two unmated socks, put one inside the other. Then, each time you have soap remnants from bars of soap, put them inside the socks. When there are several in the sock ‘bag’, tie the ends of the socks together. This makes a handy scrubber for the shower, for washing the pets, for scrubbing pots and pans, or what have you. You can even keep one of these in the car for emergencies when you have no soap and need to clean up. All you need is water.
There you go, Trenna! Now all you need is the shards of leftover soap. :))
Now this one I can use. I have many mate-less socks.