A lovely idea
Bookworm on Feb 01 2009 at 8:47 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
In my house, bathmats are necessary fungus and mildew factories, in place to make sure that people don’t slip as a result of puddles created post-bath or shower. Nguyen La Chanh, of Switzerland, has a different idea, and one that sounds really lovely. If it can truly be made affordable, I’d buy it.
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This sounds like something “Green” Marin would go gaga over. Buy them, Book? How about stocking up on them and selling them to your neighbors at 150% marked up prices? They’d pay, you know.
Mebbe I’ll go for a barefoot walk on the brick path in the back yard, just to try out the concept.
I was wondering if the inventor recommends the use of soap, shampoo and conditioners, or plant foods and fertilizers?
The missus and I solved the problem long ago when we decided to domesticate the mold and moss that grows naturally in our part of Marin.
We hauled out our old lab equipment from our college bio classes and nuked the moss/molds with a makeshift X-ray device.
Those clusters that grew too quickly or became unmanageable we mercilessly eliminated. (Remind me to tell you the story of how my wife cleverly dissauded one mutantion that was strangling her by loudly singing a Katy Perry song, “I Kissed a Mold and I Liked It,” to it in an off-key voice).
When we were left with compliant mutant molds of the proper texture and obedience, we allowed them to carpet those places we thought appropriate throughout the house.
We did get a few radiation burns, and the bottoms of our feet are stained an apparently permanent deep Vegamite green, but we saved the $400 this Swiss woman is asking for her molds.
Hey Charles, I thought making home made X-Ray bombs was illegal?
We have much growing in the yard this time of year, that maybe shouldn’t. Baby’s tears, moss, thistle, dandelions and fungi1, etc. Some of the stuff seems to contribute to fungal blights on a dwarf peach and what were beautiful specimen Camellias.
In the kitchen we frequently par boil potatoes and some meats & poultry. Don’t pour the hot water down the drain! Near-boilng water is an incredible herbicide that works on all veggie material you might wish to kill. Baby’s tears and mosses are has-beens after a quick blanching. The water cools off in a second or two and doesn’t seem to harm the underlying roots of the peaches or Camellias. There are no secondary effects, whatsoever, and the Camellias are just gorgeous again.
Grasses and weeds that grow in the cracks of the driveway are toast as well. The next day they brown-off and wither away.
Did I say it’s cheap?
I actually like this. However, I know Daisy Mae would try to dig it up before throwing herself on it to sleep.