Sure, we're a day late and a dollar short in getting this post up during September's Collections month, but we just spotted it last night. And we couldn't resist this collection — perhaps the most peculiar seen in the array of collections you viewed on Apartment Therapy over the past month.
You can be an easy group to rile and this one is bound to elicit a gigantic "GROSS" reaction when you realize what it is. It's a collection of dryer lint. Uh huh. Strange but true. Danny Seo of Daily Danny spotted this collection at an exhibit of unusual collections at the Philadelphia Airport (we hail from the City of Brotherly love so we're feeling kind of proud of this strange exhibit).
Check out Danny's full post here to see a few more collections from the exhibit.
Have you ever done anything special with your, um, dryer lint?
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Dryer lint? Well, that's better than what I thought it was: pancakes.
Gross on both counts.
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I've seen people make yarn and knit things with dryer lint. Kind of a neat way to recycle really.
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I put the dryer lint into a little sack that hangs from a tree in my back yard. The birds use it to make nests.
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Pancakes featuring the effigy of the Virgin Mary scored off ebay.
Or dryer lint.
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"I put the dryer lint into a little sack that hangs from a tree in my back yard. The birds use it to make nests."
Now that's clever reuse!!!
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YAY...I actually guessed it correctly :)
And great idea HVCMama..I'll have to try that
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HVCMama: That IS really great. They should feature that on renest!
view Heather C's profile
Great idea to leave this stuff out for the birds!
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I don't know why, but this really makes me want to barf.
view emmabemma's profile
oh my god i thought it was pancakes too haha
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What's wrong with dryer lint? It's been through the washer and dryer so you know it is clean.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-8-1999/our-lady-of-lint
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I think it is a collection of medieval toilet seat pads (does get chilly in those castles).
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Dryer lint is also very good fire starter...
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we save ours in a bag to start fires with.
http://www.makemineeclectic.wordpress.com
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I want pancakes.
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I think they're pads from a floor waxer. Takes an ex-janitor to know those.
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Several years ago at some sort of "Believe it or Not" sideshow on a boardwalk, I saw a picture made of different colored chunks of dryer lint. The idea has always stuck with me.
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Yes, definitely polishing pads from a floor waxer! My grandma still has those somewhere.
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One of those:
http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/JPEG/VINTAGE/1-18-2008-23-35-16--aeoliandave.jpg
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My brother makes fire starters with it:
Take a cardboard egg crate and stuff the egg divots as full as possible with lint.
Melt some wax and pour over the lint, smooshing it a bit so that it's well soaked.
Add more lint and wax until the cups are full, then let them cool and cut them apart.
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love the birdnest material idea and the fire starter isnt bad either....i read an article once about "the cheapest man alive" who used dryer lint to stuff and make pillows...i guess it's clean but lumpy.
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If you compost, throw your dryer lint in there, as well. Its very compostable.
Unless, I suppose, your clothes are made with a lot of synthetics. That shed. Hmmm.
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