Storing off season clothing

But surely the lint could be dusted off or blown off the wall, thereby creating cleaning opportunities for t-shirts of ALL colors, not merely the favored white ones.

Why can't we all just get along?

The Real Bev <bashley101+ snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote

You can't, one of the real downsides with OCD is that the pathetic wretches that have it are very very hard to shift from their security blankets.

We evolved like that.

I'm not silly enough to wear white anything.

The lint can be carded, and spun into yarn or thread. At the very least, it can be used for bandages. Such waste!

One of our daughters had a tiny apartment in Seattle. She kept her shoes in the oven. She said that she never used that space, so why not?

My sister, living in a tiny fat in the middle of London, stores off season clothing an the heavy weight duvet when not in use. Her whole flat is 12' by 18'. She has a storage place in the basement. Most of what she seems to be storing down there are off season books! She still hs about 2000 in the flat. No wonder she needs a smaller, lighter sewing machine...

You wrap the lint in gauze to make an absorbant pad. Lint is also useful for starting the charcoal bar-b-que.

As for difficulty, that doesn't seem to be a criteria for the OP and some other posters. Think of it as a "challenge."

Lint coming off old clothing like this is usually less than a quarter of an inch long. Crding and spinning such short fibres may be difficult.

Bandages should be lint free to avoid particles getting into wounds and setting up infections.

Careful, you're getting awfully close to the frugal living newsgroup's favorite snipe subject of how to reuse toilet paper.

And Karen fell off the 'bent cycle at the Y! ROFLMAO

--Karen D.

What? You mean frugal-living people don't use pages out of catalogues and other junk mail? I'm shocked!

That's why long-staple cotton is better and more expensive than short-staple cotton.

OTOH, sterile lint might serve to strengthen a resulting scab. Or at least make it look like a hairy wart.

My mom saw a TV program about "The Lint Lady". Apparently people send her lint from all over the world and she uses it in art projects. You'd think we'd all have heard of her, wouldn't you?

Criterion. "Criteria" is the plural of "criterion". Not that I'm anal or anything...

Wasn't Criterion a gladiator in ancient Rome?

I once knew a man who told me he sorted the cash in his wallet by it's value. I was amazed by this level of organization until I learned his secret, he never had more than two bills of any value. :)

Anthony

No, (s)he was a racehorse. Or a race. Or something.

My bro lived at home with my mum for a long time after Dad died. Bro would come in from work and when he undressed at night, he'd fling the loose change from his pocket in the top drawer of his chest of drawers. One day mum was dusting his room and thought she'd just pop something in the drawer for him. She could barely open it... Once opened, she found masses of coins in it. She stacked and counted and bagged them in bags of £5 all the same, and found about £80's worth all together.

I think you'll find most Europeans do that automatically as our notes differ in size and colour for each value. I am so used to being able to pick out the right note by size/colour that when I am in the US I have to remember to read the value of the bill as I hand it over.

Lizzy