Rolling Your Own (Tampons)
Boingboing links to a post by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light about rolling your own tampons.
The story reminds me of a friend of mine who used to use those little sea sponges you can buy in pharmacies or at cosmetics counters (the nice soft ones sold for removing makeup, I think). She’d simply sew a string into them and carry a couple with her. She claimed they were quite effective although responsible for some funny looks when she washed them in the hand basins of the university lavatories.
Nielsen begins:
Take a single sheet from a roll of paper towels, preferably uncolored. It will probably be about eleven inches square.
Fold it in half, between and parallel to the perforated edges. Fold it again, the long way, into thirds – ideally, so that the third that is bordered by the initial fold is on the outside, and the third that is bordered by the doubled edge is on the inside. You should now have a strip that’s eleven inches long and a bit less than two inches wide.
If you require a string, and you have string, here’s where it comes in.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2002.05.15 (Wed) • 10:07
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