Mon 01/11/2010 1:29 PM

fingerless gloves to keep me warm

Keeping toasty warm in my gloves and jammies.

Lately when I spend time at my home computer, my hands have been getting cold and the back of my right hand even goes numb... a rather unpleasant sensation. It doesn't happen if I crank the heat up high enough, but then my computer overheats, especially if I'm playing The Sims 3. You can tell by how much louder the fans get.

So I think I've found a solution. I got some knit gloves nice and cheap at Target ($1.50 for two pair), and this weekend I sat down and laboriously cut the fingers off of one pair, and made myself some "typing gloves". They seem to be doing the trick! They do slow down my typing a bit and I took a big hit in the accuracy department as well, but most of the time on my home computer is spent playing games where I only have to hit a key here and there, so I don't think it will matter much. They work so well to keep my hands warm that I've even been wearing them around the house when I'm not at the computer. The hardest part is coaxing all of my twisty fingers into the right holes to put them on, but I am getting the hang of it.

Other things I learned in this process are that kitchen shears work much better than office scissors for cutting through gloves, and that the trick is to pull back on the scissors, rather than pushing them forward. Oh, and that the bottom of my new camera is not particularly flat, and it can lose its balance easily when I press the shutter button for a timer shot.

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comment: from Dana

You know, they do sell fingerless gloves right? I have a pair that I got at Kohls for under $10 so that I could access my iphone screen in the car...there is a piece that hooks over the top so they are like a mitten if you want your fingers covered. I will take a pic & send it to you to see if it would work for you...then you don't have to worry about the fingers unravelling! They feel a bit bulky between the fingers but I think it just feels that way because they don't go all the way down your fingers.

Tue 01/12/2010 3:19 PM

comment: from Carly

I know they sell them, but I wasn't about to hunt all over town just to pay more for the privilege of having the fingers already cut off, when I knew I could get them for $0.75 a pair at Target and do it myself. That part that flips over would just get in my way...

Tue 01/12/2010 3:51 PM

fingerless gloves to keep me warm

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