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[jazzfish]

Last week I reached into my jacket pockets to take out my gloves for I guess the first time this year, and pulled out one glove and a handful of dust. Apparently the one-or-two-a-week bugs I've been seeing weren't fruit flies.

The gloves were a gift from my ex, I think for our last xmas. They were handmade, and quite pretty: forest green wool yarn, with some interesting cabling. But they didn't keep my hands very warm, they didn't stay on as well as I would have liked, and the conductive thread woven into the fingertips didn't work. Looked good, but not terribly functional. I tossed them with no regrets.

My nice wool coat has some tightly-rolled cobwebs on the closet-side as well. No signs of damage, though. And I'm not seeing moth-sign on anything else, not that I have many other things they might go for (a down jacket with a polyester shell, a nice wool scarf from my aunt that I can't wear because I can't bear things around my neck). Guess I'm hunting up a dry-cleaner today. I've already vacuumed the closet well. I'll keep an eye on things and if there's a recurrence I'll take more drastic steps.

Comments

[sartorias]

Bleccch! Not a fun discovery.

[jazzfish]

It really was not. Thankfully it wasn't actually all that cold, and my fingers survived with minimal complaining.

[shanaqui]

Moths sometimes avoid the most random stuff. Sometimes I wonder if it's the dyes or something.

[jazzfish]

I would believe it! They're sometimes startlingly picky beasts. Means that when they do find something they like they pretty much destroy it, though.

[shanaqui]

Alas, yes. Though I have one dress with a tiny patch of damage where clearly whoever damaged it decided it didn't taste good. 😆

[jazzfish]

*snrk*

Yeah, my Army blanket has a single small (very old) hole in it. Could be a spark from a fire, could be moths deciding "ugh what IS this".

[reedrover]

Quite the metaphor.

[jazzfish]

Yeah. There's certainly things I could have done to take better care of the gloves, and I would rather I'd acknowledged they weren't working for me before they got destroyed. Eh, well. Onward.