# For Mangetout: Canada's National Lost Mitten Registry

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-mangetout-canadas-national-lost-mitten-registry/335593>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-mangetout-canadas-national-lost-mitten-registry/335593 "2005-12-14T15:24:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-mangetout-canadas-national-lost-mitten-registry/335593/1 "2005-12-14T15:24:30Z")

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The **National Post** , Canada’s somewhat right-of-centre national newspaper has offered to run a photo of lost mittens sent in by readers, with a description of when and where found. Truly MPSIMS material!

[Mitten Registry story](http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=8a567dc0-940c-40ba-ad7b-d58feec1ba7e) (Story has link to lost handwear gallery).

Apparently they did this last winter as well, but I just found out about it.

I couldn’t help but immediately think of Britdoper **Mangetout** , who collects photographs of lost gloves.

I’m not sure if mittens fall within the purview of his curatorial interest–but there are also leather gloves included in the gallery, which has an odd, forlorn appeal to it.

Does no-one knit mittens with “idiot strings” anymore?

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**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-mangetout-canadas-national-lost-mitten-registry/335593/2 "2005-12-14T16:24:14Z")

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Hee, I thought of **Mangetout** at the post office Saturday when there was a lonely glove by the self-mail kiosk. I never have a camera ready to photograph lost gloves when I find them.

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-mangetout-canadas-national-lost-mitten-registry/335593/3 "2005-12-14T16:41:26Z")

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> [@Rodd Hill](#):
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> Does no-one knit mittens with “idiot strings” anymore?

Tell me you weren’t the kid who wore the mittens on the string!

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**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-mangetout-canadas-national-lost-mitten-registry/335593/4 "2005-12-14T16:49:25Z")

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Nah–I spent many of my tender years in Saskatchewan; even little kids there know that losing a glove or mitten at -40 (with a wind chill of -70) is a very bad idea!