Where does lint come from?

@TheHorse lol. Years ago I found a recipe that used dryer lint to make fire starter blocks. I made quite a few and used them in our fireplace.

@ElusiveButterfly LOL. I wish someone would have told me about that sooner. I have ALMOST started many fires by starting fires. The funniest would have had to have been when there was snow on the roof. I tried to start a fire and it didn't matter what I did I couldn't get anything to burn. Needless to say I got aggravated and put a whole newspaper, page by page in the fireplace. You guessed it. Swoosh. It caught fire and then after a nice roaring blaze had started, remember I said roaring, you could hear thump, and like a fizz. We went outside to see the peices of the paper landing on the roof. The fizz was the snow melting. We got a guy to come out that did chimney inspections, and he told me I was really lucky. We had a minor chimney fire so our chimney was now clean, but I shouldn't put so much paper in it next time. LOL

But they didn't bathe that often either. I'd imagine that many marriages were based on pheromones in those days.

@TheHorse So you think your own skin has them that work on your clothes and release the lint. This is a guinness book of world discovery. Prove it and you are there (lol)

Spiders? In my clothes? The humanity! Maybe those wee beasties that we all have on our skin and in our eye lashes, etc., are secretly weaving tiny webs to catch even smaller wee beasties.

@allknowing It was someone else's suggestion. They get the patent rights.

@Jessicalynnt ..I wonder how because he says he uses his jeans for fairly long...

@TheHorse lots of denim?

I'll have to look for that. Mine always seems to be a dull blue.

That's the impression I'm getting.

That last one is always on my mind! With my stereo gear, I have AC cords and speaker cables all over the place. How can they have knots in them when I never knot them?

@TheHorse The long cords we use for the concert are wound very carefully but it never helps. @Telynor I think you're right. Certainly they can get themselves in a right mess.

@TheHorse I think that those cords must be part snake, so they move when we're not looking. Hence, knots.

It must! Unless all dryers come with a secret lint-generating device.

That's kind of what I assumed. I don't think I could fit a clothes line in my small house, though.

Oh, I didn't even know it was flammable. No smoking in bed if you use it for pillow stuffing, I reckon.

I need to learn weaving so I can harvest lint and make clothes.

@TheHorse No Einstein here, but red is the leakiest color. If you don't believe me look at my previously white clothes that are pink.

Even if I don't wash any jeans, it seems to turn out...blue. Where is Einstein when we need him? Could blue just be the "leakiest" color?

I guess clothes DO shed. Maybe I should dry my older (almost falling apart) favorite flannel shirts by hanging them.

Ah, good point. I left a shirt outside and it wound up with weird lines on it.

What's his reason? Clothes feel kind of stiff to me off of the clothes line. At least at first.

I thought about the skin flaking off part. Does that mean that if I wove socks out of lint they'd get stinky even faster than normal socks?

@TheHorse you might be able to make felt, but the fibres are so short that thread or yarn would disintegrate as fast as you spun it.

I don't mind the smell of the little strips I use. It's not overwhelming. I think I get them from the Dollar Store!

Maybe there was less lint "back in the day," when clothes were better made. My 501s used to last forever.

Glad I don't do laundry that often, then. I don't want to destroy my favorite jeans and t-shirts.