So the first obstacle to our need to put the button back on our shirt is just that: threading a needle, two very small items. In this case, the tricks of our grandmothers come into play, their methods of threading the needle into the eye are tangible and ingenious, let’s see some of them.

Toothbrush

Toothbrushes, once they are no longer used to clean our teeth, are usually either thrown away or recycled to clean in small and narrow places that our hands cannot reach. In this case, it is used to thread a needle, how? you need to place the floss lengthwise over the toothbrush, then once you pass the needle over the floss, gently press on the bristles of the toothbrush. You will be the ones who will help this process of ” threading “.

Plastic cap

There is never a shortage of plastic caps in the house, DIY they can be recycled in various ways, make decorative magnets or decorations and DIY stamps for our children. But for those who have difficulty threading a needle, they become an ideal solution. Let’s see how to create them. Let’s take a classic plastic screw cap and make a horizontal cut on the threaded side with a sharp knife. Then we cut one or two bristles from the clean house broom, and after folding them in the middle to make a buttonhole, we insert them into the slot, leaving the folded part outside the cap. The inner part can be stopped with some glue, but at this point the newly created ring allows us to thread a needle, even if our eyesight causes some problems for us.

The palm

What could be more obvious than our “palm?”. Really nothing, and this is another trick we can use.

In practice, rather than trying to thread the thread into the eye from the end of the thread, we need to place our thread on the palm of our hand and use the eye perpendicular to the thread and move it back and forth on it. Eventually the thread will pass effortlessly through the needle hole and all we have to do is pull the thread through, ingenious, right?