No Glove Left Behind: Reduce waste while increasing happiness one glove at a time: 03/21/12

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Stripes, stripes, stripes

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.

As winter comes to an end in the Northern hemisphere, I am posting a few more gloves, all from Toronto. I doubt that anyone who is thinking of putting away their winter gear wants to think about gloves right now. I'm also sure that most lonely single gloves have either ended up in the trash, or are about to. Save them! Perhaps there is a match for them on this page. If not, send me a photo so someone else could pair up their lonely glove/mitten with it!

LEFT HAND

M-L

Maroon with mauve, purple and blue stripes

LEFT OR RIGHT HAND

M

Black with pink and while stripes

LEFT OR RIGHT HAND

S-M

Brown with rust stripes

Sorry about the above photo!

The blue-looking part is actually brown, and the purple-looking stripes are really rust-colour.

replace following picture

LEFT HAND

M-L Thinsulate

Black, grey, white, pink and purple

LEFT OR RIGHT HAND

M

Pale pink with yellow stripes

LEFT OR RIGHT HAND

M-L

Black, white and red large knit

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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

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Stripes, stripes, stripes

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