Other uses for floss
Thursday, Sep 1, 2005
We’re a little sidetracked with school this morning. The baby uncovered an old, lost metal tin of dental floss, so the kids decided to make a leash out of the floss to walk the kitten. They concluded that cats do not like walks, and I made sure that they did not choke the kitten. Now, they are stringing circa 1970 dusty buttons on the floss to make necklaces.
Maybe I should order the kids some real games? Nah.
More later.
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Give them an empty box next and you are good to go!
Comment by Janet (September 1, 2005 @ 10:34 am )
I’m with you - no real toys. That sounds like fun… I have been meaning to get a button box for my kids. When I get around to it I think I’ll give them some floss with it.
Comment by Jamie (September 1, 2005 @ 12:17 pm )
This reminds me of “On the Banks of Plum Creek” that my daughter has listened to a zillion times. Such a big deal over a button string! And so much more powerful of a memory to build than a video game. Who cares about ‘virtual reality’ when we have actual reality?
Comment by Dana (September 1, 2005 @ 2:38 pm )
Ever made a wind up tracter out of a wooden spool? Oh, do ladies still sew? Do they still make wooden spools?
Comment by Tim (September 1, 2005 @ 10:04 pm )
LOL that sounds like good healthly fun.
The Blogging (homeschooled) Boy Scout,
Travis
Comment by Travis (September 2, 2005 @ 12:32 am )
I was wondering where my old tin of floss went. It was in my big leather bag last I looked; how’d you get it?
Comment by Paula (September 3, 2005 @ 10:53 pm )
I also understand dental floss can be useful for slicing particularly delicate and/or messy cakes that would be ruined by a knife. (I learned this while attempting to slice a Boston cream and doing a very bad job of it with a knife.)
Comment by Valerie (Kyriosity) (September 4, 2005 @ 8:19 am )
Nah, this sounds much more interesting then normal games, I remember the homemade toys were much more fun then the regular ones.
Comment by ello (September 8, 2005 @ 4:44 am )
Another use for dental floss: once while backpacking my husband and I got the rope for hanging the food (to keep it away from the bears) hung up in a tree. So what were we going to do? We used dental floss! It was incredibly strong and allowed us to “racoon bag” - rather than “bear bag” - our food. In other words, it was only hung about 4 feet in the air rather than the normal 20 feet or so.
Comment by Alice (September 11, 2005 @ 2:57 am )