Larry Slater

Okay, so call me cheap but I just don’t want to spend $20, $30 or more for a pair of leather gloves with a cloth insert to keep my fingers from freezing together while walking to my car.

So I pulled a rabbit out of my worker’s hat and found a way to have my leather gloves with cloth inserts for $5. How? Read on dear reader and learn what a resourceful miser can do.

Having worked my share of blue-collar jobs, I knew that gloves can be bought quite cheaply at your local building supply company. For this little experiment, I choose Menards as they always have a nice selection of worker’s gloves at good prices.

While scanning the racks, I found a pair of goatskin gloves looked okay but the grayish cast didn’t thrill me none. But it was the best buy I could find so I got them for $4.

Then I went to my ole standbys, the basic workman’s cotton glove for a buck. While they had are brown, I’m not going to complain because they aren’t quite as dark as I might prefer.

But the leather gloves did bother me a bit. The uneven coloring caused me to dip into my trusty shoe kit and pull out my black shoe polish with a stained sweat sock. After a healthy daub of black polish on the sock, I rubbed that grey right out of my hair…or rather off the gloves so now they look a respectable black.

Stuffing the cotton gloves into the large leather gloves made for a snug but acceptable fit so now I had a double layered pair of gloves for a total of $5.

As a reward I took myself to a lunch of Coney Island Hot Dogs. Hey, you have to celebrate when a plan comes together.

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