A call to all creative WG'ers...my wife needs help...

[Mark of the Lame responses]

yeah, yeah...keep your comments related to helping her for being married to me to yourself (lol)

Anyways,
as part of an assignment for a marketing class (exercise in thinking outside the box) she has to come up with 15 ways to thread a string through a pants draw-string--you know, like when they come undone in the wash and you have to take a safety pin and work it back through the hole.

Please post your creative and outside the box ideas. But do it fast she wants to finish this part of the multitude of assignments by Monday. *We already have 7 --as they post (I hope they post) I will let you know if you were thinking like a MOTLR if your idea matches one of mine.

[Black John Flint]

Soak the drawstring in water and freeze it hard. The drawstring can now be pushed through (work fast!!!)

[Mark of the Lame responses]

Had not came up with that one yet...reps for you!

[skyefyre]

Tie one end around a crochet hook, then push the crochet hook through and around.

[skyefyre]

other than a safety pin through the string and using that to thread it through, or the crochet hook, I would probably through out the string and hope the 10 pounds I gained over the holidays held the pants up? lol

[xpedite]

If the drawstring has not come completely out, but is stuck inside the waist band, I have often taken a tweezer and grabbed the end and pulled it back through. I have a pair of shorts that seems to do that about every 3rd washing.

[xpedite]

Could you thread it through a straw and use that to push it through?

[XSRocks]

1. Tie one end of the string to a hungry snakes tail and push the snakes head into the draw-string hole. Position mouse at opposite end.

2. Use an electricians "chase" to thread the string back through the hole.

3. Use an elephant's trunk to pull the string through.

4. Cut open the channel where the string goes, lay in the string, sew up the channel.

[Cecil - I need my NHL fix(ed)]

you're all missing the easiest one:

make someone else do it

[Chicken Hawk]

Tie the string BEFORE you wash it, dopey.

[XineGirl]

If this is a recurring problem, replace the string with elastic.


Or just pull out the stitching that makes the casing for the string, lay a new string in and re-stitch.

There almost has to be a way to tie a small (but powerful) magnet to the end of the string, and the moving the pants around near a fridge door to pull the string around.


You didn't say practical. :p

Peace,
Xine

[South City Joe]

Tie a small parachute to the one end. Stuff it into the hole. Go down to the gas station and use the air hose to blow air into the hole. The parachute will open and pull the end of the string around and out the other hole.

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[Dave From Central MAss]

Thread a dowel through the waist of the pants. Screw in a small eyehook, and pass the string through the eyehook hole, and knot it. Pull it through.

[Hannah and Her Daddy ( John )]

Find a seamstress? Does that count as a way to get it in?

[Fyrechase]

Call Mom! :D

My mom picks up and washes and then returns my laundry..Of course I pay her for it and do some at the laundry mat....But this way she makes money and I save money :)

I'd call her and find out when she could pick up laundry and make sure she took the pants...by the time she returned them they would be fixed because it would "annoy" her

[txpegasus]

My sister was doing that for me for a while when I first started school. It helped me out to save money and I didn't have time.:) Then she went and moved about 200 miles away and now it gets done about once every two weeks or whenever I am home long enough to do a load or two.:(

[Fyrechase]

Yeah I doubt mom would go to tucson and pick up MOTLR clothes :)

[Sheri]

1) Tape around the first couple inches of the drawstring until it is stiff and easy to use to push the rest through with.

2) Tape or otherwise fasten a small magnet (or steel object that is attracted to magnets) to the end of the drawstring and push it into the hole for the string. Use another stronger magnet on the outside of the material to draw it along the path to re-string it.

3) Attach a fishing weight or car-tire weight that is small enough to fit into the hole to the end of the string. Keep turning the sweat pants so that the next part of the string-track is below where the weight is so that gravity will work to pull the weight and string along. (You didn't say they had to be GOOD ideas, just different! ;) )