Probably Won't Be Pinning This One
Oct. 14th, 2012 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unknownfateSo, I am just nuts over Pinterest, and I have started saving paper towel and toilet paper tubes for all the myriad projects I now know of that can be made from tubes of various sizes.
Today, I discovered a new use for a toilet paper tube all on my own.
I was sorting laundry. Jean pile, t-shirt pile, undie pile, towel pile, things to iron* pile, and just as I was wondering if I should have a hoodie pile now that the weather is colder, I dropped some undies into their pile. I glanced down at the pile as I did so. Then I said "Bwah!" Because there on the floor by my unmentionables, dead as a doornail, was Mouse #3.
Had it been there the whole time? Had it been deposited there whilst I was merrily sorting? Which was worse?
There was a cat in sight, but he was paying neither of us any mind. Poor Mousie still had his head, so I knew which cat had done the deed**. But what to do? There to the right was my stash of paper tubes. So I took one and very carefully scooped the poor tattered little body up in it. Toilet paper tubes are perfect for mice. Dead ones, anyway. They fit inside and can be easily carried outside or to the nearest trash can. (I know somebody who would've used the sink disposal for mouse disposal, but that's just horrible. I couldn't bear the crunching.)
So! A new use for toilet paper tubes. Viking funerals for mice. With or without fire.
*Or in my case, things to let bounce around in the dryer before wearing.
**Do people with pets that aren't cats have serial killer MOs to follow?
Today, I discovered a new use for a toilet paper tube all on my own.
I was sorting laundry. Jean pile, t-shirt pile, undie pile, towel pile, things to iron* pile, and just as I was wondering if I should have a hoodie pile now that the weather is colder, I dropped some undies into their pile. I glanced down at the pile as I did so. Then I said "Bwah!" Because there on the floor by my unmentionables, dead as a doornail, was Mouse #3.
Had it been there the whole time? Had it been deposited there whilst I was merrily sorting? Which was worse?
There was a cat in sight, but he was paying neither of us any mind. Poor Mousie still had his head, so I knew which cat had done the deed**. But what to do? There to the right was my stash of paper tubes. So I took one and very carefully scooped the poor tattered little body up in it. Toilet paper tubes are perfect for mice. Dead ones, anyway. They fit inside and can be easily carried outside or to the nearest trash can. (I know somebody who would've used the sink disposal for mouse disposal, but that's just horrible. I couldn't bear the crunching.)
So! A new use for toilet paper tubes. Viking funerals for mice. With or without fire.
*Or in my case, things to let bounce around in the dryer before wearing.
**Do people with pets that aren't cats have serial killer MOs to follow?
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Date: 2012-10-14 07:33 pm (UTC)My cat, who is no hunter, tried to give me a ground squirrel the other day. But he was not real well versed in the idea of what to do with it besides catch it, so he put it down to meow at me and it ran away.
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Date: 2012-10-14 10:13 pm (UTC)