No Glove Left Behind: Reduce waste while increasing happiness one glove at a time: 02/19/12

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Please read HOW IT WORKS on the right-hand side bar if you want one of the single gloves below or want to donate one.

Since I don't have enough single gloves myself to get the ball rolling, I went to the place on my campus (I'm a student) where unclaimed single gloves eventually end up. I came home with a full bag of single gloves and laundered them. Today I'm putting up those that look that the ones many of us wear. On my next post, I'll put ones that stand out in a crowd. But I'm hoping that you will beat me to it and start sending me photos of your own single gloves!

SIZE GUIDE:

When there was no size tag on the glove, I used my own hands to measure.

Those are the sizes I put under the photos.

I am a female with fairly long fingers so an L for me might be a M or M/L for a man.

RIGHT HAND

M/L

Thinsulate

Cream/Brown

RIGHT HAND
M/L
Thinsulate
Shades of grey

RIGHT HAND
M/L
Thinsulate
Beige with grey

RIGHT HAND

M/L

Olympics 2010

Red

RIGHT HAND

Canada logo

Black (with reinforced palm)

RIGHT HAND

S/M

Grey with black trim

Couple of fingertips worn out (but not gone!)

RIGHT HAND

Thinsulate

Black with reflective shapes

RIGHT HAND

Hot Paws (Lined fleece)

Navy Blue with White stripes

RIGHT HAND

Kodiak (reinforced palm)

Black

RIGHT HAND

S (or L for child)

Thinsulate (with reinforced palm)

Navy Blue

RIGHT HAND

M/L

Very pale Grey

LEFT HAND

Fleece

Black

LEFT HAND

M/L

Logo is SOTONOFF or BOTONOFF?

Black fleece (reinforced leather palm)

LEFT HAND

M/L

Olympics 2010

Navy blue (other side reinforced with leather)

LEFT HAND

Fleece with reinforced under (as seen)

Black

LEFT HAND

Hipora

Black and Grey

Too many features to mention

LEFT HAND

S/M

Artic

Black with Blue and Yellow

LEFT HAND

M/L

Hot Paws

(reinforced palm)

Black

LEFT HAND

M (tag says "Europe S" - likely men's S)

Jack Wolfskin

Red and Black

LEFT HAND

Purple

LEFT HAND

S/M

Talula

Purple/Grape

LEFT HAND

Cream

LEFT or RIGHT HAND

(mostly wool)

Grey with Red trim

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HOW IT WORKS

If you have a single glove, e-mail me a photo of it. Tell me its size, whether it is left or right, and your location (city and neighbourhood). If you wish, write a little story about acquiring or losing it.

I will post it here. It will be either a close or creative (= anything from 'same style, different colour' and 'same colour, different style' to 'in my mind they are a perfect match'!) partner to someone else's single glove. When someone who sees your glove decides that it will be a good partner to their single glove, you can reduce waste and increase happiness by giving your spare glove to that person. This is a sharing, specifically a gift-giving zone, just like other free-cycling zones--no commerce or bartering around here!

If you find a glove you like on the site, e-mail me, and I'll put you in contact with the glove owner. That might change in the future.

Presently I expect that people in the same locale can meet to transfer the glove to the new owner, or arrange a "porch-pickup". For long-distance, must-have-that-particular-glove! instances, we need some creative solutions. A friend suggested snail mail. That would work with light, thin gloves, but cost too much with bulky gloves. So this is a work in progress, and I am open to suggestions to improve the project. So far the best policy is "go local".

ALSO... If you find a glove somewhere, and there is no lost and found desk to take it to, I suggest you leave it there, photograph it and post your photograph in one of these great sites: Unloved Glove (global), Lonely Glove Project (New York), and long lost (g)love (global, presently with most submissions from New York).

No Glove Left Behind: Reduce waste while increasing happiness one glove at a time

Sunday, February 19, 2012

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