Have you lost any socks in Queen Anne lately? It may sound like a strange question, but it happens… apparently. Maybe you went for a shoeless walk in the park, or lost a few stray socks on your way out of the laundromat? Whatever the reason, there’s now a place for Queen Anne-ers to go to find their missing socks – Charley + May.
Charley + May owner Lauren Formicola decided to put up a Lost Sock Depot in her gallery/gift-shop window earlier this month because she says Queen Anne residents often find lost baby and toddler socks on sidewalks, hedges, fences and in parks around the neighborhood, and she’d like to help those missing socks find their matches.
If you find a lost toddler or baby sock around the neighborhood, you can drop it off at Charley + May (at 2225 Queen Anne Ave N) or slip in in the mail slot when the door is closed, and Formicola will add it to the clothes line in the window where it can wait for its match. For each pair that is matched at the depot, Charley + May will donate a new pair of socks to the Treehouse for Kids, a local organization that works to provide valuable services and programs for local foster kids. Plus the owner of the original lost socks will get to take them back home again.