What did I do today? Well, after washing a load of clothes, I watched this video on how to restring a hoodie:
My most available tool, the mechanical pencil, didn't work as it seems the holes in my daughter's garment are too small. While looking for a safety pin, my eye fell on one of those needles you use to pump up a basketball. That worked, maybe better than the YouTuber's assortment of pins: you can stick the thin part of the needle through a knot at the end of the string and then feed it through the track in the edge of the hood by repeatedly pinching the wide end that screws into the pump. Use your off hand to guide the advancing needle from below so that it doesn't fishtail in there and get its pointy end caught in the fabric on the sides of the track. Here is my finished product:
If you look closely, you can see that I damaged the hole to the right with my mechanical pencil fail. Make the pump needle your first option, unless you'd rather just throw away the string and say "the hell with it," which is what I would have done if it had been my hoodie. Alas and alack, it belongs to someone more particular, and with higher callings.
I know too that many of you have trouble folding a fitted sheet. My advice would be to watch this video
and then, having made a mental note of the complexities involved, wad the sucker up as if it were a giant piece of wastepaper before stuffing it into any open space your linen closet has to offer.
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