{"id":13502,"date":"2016-01-03T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2016-01-03T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T09:04:04","slug":"the-market-for-tangled-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-market-for-tangled-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market For Tangled Yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/010316_0900_TheMarketFo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carrie Melago wrote that there are people across the United States desperate to get their hands on your tangled balls of yarn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A group of &#8220;detanglers&#8221; find that fixing tangled up balls of yarn helps relax them in an overwhelming world.<\/li>\n<li>To that end 25 pound boxes of tangled yarn can go for $50 on eBay.<\/li>\n<li>Online community sites have sprung up where people can send photographs of the mess they&#8217;ve gotten their yarn in \u2013 and people offer to help untangle it for them.<\/li>\n<li>They also discuss untangling techniques. All agree that using scissors to cut out the knots is never the answer.<\/li>\n<li>Those on the community like to share &#8220;tangle porn&#8221; where they show before and after pictures of their ultimately perfect looking balls of yarn.<\/li>\n<li>The community&#8217;s proudest project is the stuff of legend \u2013 50 balls of yarn mistakenly thrown into the dryer. Over a dozen detanglers work together to fix it up.<\/li>\n<li>Some are branching out and offering to help untangle headphone cables and Christmas tree lights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/knitters-with-hopelessly-knotted-yarn-call-detanglers-for-help-1450751172\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/knitters-with-hopelessly-knotted-yarn-call-detanglers-for-help-1450751172\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/12\/markets-in-everything-52.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Melago wrote that there are people across the United States desperate to get their hands on your tangled balls of yarn: A group of &#8220;detanglers&#8221; find that fixing tangled up balls of yarn helps relax them in an overwhelming world. To that end 25 pound boxes of tangled yarn can go for $50 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/010316_0900_TheMarketFo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}