Get Goose

I’ve probably been doing my own laundry for about twenty years now, so I’d say I’ve emptied a lint filter at least 1,000 times. Tonight was no different than any other laundry night, but for some reason I became mesmerized by the lint. Where on earth does lint come from? You would think (by the amount of lint caught in the filter) that I was walking around all day, every day, with huge fuzzy fluff all over my clothes. But, I know this is not the case. A few dog hairs, maybe, but no fuzzy fluff over here. However, every time I open that filter, there’s enough lint in there to make a whole new outfit…maybe two. So, I decided to Google “lint,” and according to Ted Prewitt (no idea who he is), it turns out there’s a lot to be done with it:

• In the spring and summer, put dryer lint and bits of string on tree branches so that birds can use it to build nests.
• Place lint under kindling and use it as tinder.
• Use lint as padding when shipping small items through the mail.

Lint…my new best friend.