Kids need disposable socks.

Right now, while our washer is still AWOL, I'm more convinced than ever that somebody ought to design disposable, biodegradable socks for kids.
Then it would be so simple to just stock up, kind of like with toilet paper.
Sell them in packs of 45 for $8 each, roughly a kid's 30 day supply. Somebody would get rich.
Infant and toddler socks are pretty inexpensive, but once your kid hits about a size 1 in shoes, you realize that paying $1 a pair is going to make you broke.
Every mother of a child over the age of five has heard, "Mom, I need socks for school today?"
And every mother has probably replied at least once "it would help if you'd put them in the dirty laundry."
Once every few weeks we go on a sock safari. We move couches. We look under beds. We fish through closets. We clean under the dining room table...(okay, that one happens more frequently....most of the time.)
Usually we find enough of the missing culprits to get them washed and sorted for another week or two of sock survivor. Sock survivor? Yeah, losing them isn't the only problem.
I'm starting to think "mud brown" should be the color of most boys socks to start with. Granted the ones with grey bottoms help, but it's no match for running outside to greet Grandpa with no shoes. It doesn't help when they wear them until they crunch. It doesn't help when they figure because they're wearing boots, they can go wherever they want, including the knee deep mud puddle in the back yard. Not to mention the socks that go camping, are the first pair in after a pair of shoes has been left out overnight in the rain,etc. That's the least of kid's sock worries though.
Socks often become toys. They get used as storage bags for bouncy balls, knots tied with them to make maces, stretched across various things for bows, brother trippers, and such...and of course, to the crafty child, sock puppets or, to the curious toddler, scissors practice.
Thus why I love summer. No school = rubber shoes that can be hosed down, and NO SOCKS.