Do you have any string?

There is string in out garage. And it’s string, not twine. I’ve used it to tie a stuffed pork tenderloin. I also have yarn, which is like furry string.

I have string in the garden for training things up trellises. Although @tedibear is making me think, I guess it’s more twine than string.

If I had a string I’d tie a hot guy to my bed and do him all night long.

I have tons of string around here but I rarely use it because I can never find it. :-) No, really, I use it to tie things up, attach things to other things, lash things, secure things to other things, hang things from other things, and I tie long strands of slip knots and then unravel them, a weird habit I picked up from my dad. I have a lot rope and cable ties too. You can never have enough of that kind of stuff.

I have string, but I don’t use it. I have no unexpected use for it either.

It just sits there strung like string within itself.

Yeah, don’t use it though.

I do. I have heavy, coarse string (what my father always called “twine”) and fine string, cotton string and hemp string and some kind of synthetic string that I don’t like very much.

String has many excellent uses. Here are some:

• Securing jigsaw puzzle boxes so they don’t come open and lose pieces, while making the boxes easy to open without marring the surface.
• Dangling cat toys for more entertaining chasing. (We have a feline houseguest at present.)
• Lacing up a stuffed turkey before it goes in the oven.
• Fastening bundles of magazines for donation or discard.
• Extending the pull chain on a closet light bulb.
• Running a little line above the clothes dryer for hanging up cloth slippers to dry (with a clothespin).
And, even more important,
• Making cat’s cradles to entertain young children.

I don’t know whether any of these uses is unexpected. Given the wonderfulness of string, I think we would do well to expect all uses. It is probably an essential for survival in the wild.

Even if I don’t use string daily, I consider it a household staple and wouldn’t be without it.

Yes I have one huge roll of special heavy duty upholstery sewing string. Well when I first got it back in the late 1970’s it was huge (it is a little over half gone now). This string is waxed and is super strong. I originally bought it for my taxidermy hobby in which I would use a heavy duty curved needle and hand awl to help sew my string into the thick hides. I made extra money mounting deer heads and birds for hunters for a while. One day I looked about the garage and suddenly became repulsed by my handy work (dead animals all over the place staring at me) and I gave everything away except my string. All at once the novelty of taxidermy was gone. Since then I’ve mended suit cases, duffle bags, running shoes and camping gear with my string. This string is also great for securing plants and holiday decorations. It will be many more years before my roll of string is used up and that will be a say day for me.

@gondwanalon, oh, how dreadfully tempted I am to suggest how you might have your remaining string buried with you.

There is a ball of string in my kitchen drawer but I don’t think it’s been used in 15 years.

Yes to string. A few sizes and colors.
Last use was kind of MacGyver style to help put up a tire swing. I tied the string around a baseball, tied the other end (about 30 feet) to a rope. Threw the baseball up over the desired tree branch. Pulled the rope over and tired off a tire. Vuala!

I do! A couple of types. I have some kind of waxed linen string that I’ve used to decorate bottles and vases with. I have kitchen string (white, unwaxed), which I know I’ve used multiple times, but can’t for the life of me remember what for. And then a few string-like things: raffia and skinny ribbon, mostly for adorning wrapped presents.

I don’t have any string. I’m sure I’ll need some one day and kick myself for not keeping any in the house but it’s fairly cheap and I know where I can get some so it won’t be the end of the world.

The one thing I never have but always need is cellotape. I really should keep that stuff in the house!

@gondwanalon – I have used waxed string to make bead garlands for Christmas trees. I don’t know how thick yours is, but that’s a notion to play with.

I recently needed string and found that we don’t have any in the house. Ended up using embroidery thread instead. We also apparently have that stringy stuff that you use to tie up turkeys with?? I’m not exactly sure what it is, except that it seems useless in any situation except the one it was presumably made for.