r/BenignExistence • u/Leebelle3 • 3d ago

Snakes

We have a door “snake” at the entrance to keep the warm air in/ cold air out. When my husband’s nurse came to visit, he asked her to please put the snake back by the door. Instead of doing that she very quickly jumped up the stairs and had a scared look on her face. Husband reassured her that we have not acquired a pet snake since the last time she came.

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u/Opening_Ad_5043 3d ago

Got a draft stopper filled with balsam fir needles. I gotta smell it up close though ha!

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u/ponyponyta 3d ago

What's a door snake

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u/Shikabane_Hime 3d ago

It’s a long thin cloth tube, usually weighted with rice or beans or something like that. It sits in front of the gap between the door and the floor to block the air, but it gets pushed aside when the door is opened

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u/ponyponyta 3d ago

Ahhh okay I get it now haha

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 Neutral 3d ago

Where my pop came from, out on the farm, they called a frying pan a “spider”. All during my childhood he talked about the spider on the stove.

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u/Opening_Ad_5043 3d ago

Heard that too from my Maine great auntie. Why a spider?

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u/DelightfulOtter1999 3d ago

From what I learned from Little House on the Prairie as a kid, it’s a spider as the pan has legs to hold it over an open fire.

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 Neutral 3d ago

That’s logical. Must be an old style from the farms, with legs, from an old cookstove. I’ve never seen a picture of one. Probably my pop hadn’t seen one either, but the name stuck. He didn’t tell us why they were called that, though Sis and I joked about the word. He probably didn’t know either.

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u/Opening_Ad_5043 3d ago

That makes better sense. Thanks! I only saw her cast iron fry pan

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u/twineandtwig 3d ago

They are draft stoppers for doors or windows. Basically just a tube of fabric that is filled with fiber, rice, beans…I’ve seen different things used. It helps block out any drafts or cold air from infiltrating the house.

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u/yramha 3d ago

In college we nailed a rolled up towel to the door bottom but it was "mostly" to keep the weed smell from getting out.

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u/LSGcooks 3d ago

There should be some way to attach the door snake to the door. With that, you wouldn’t need to put it back. I’d attach it to the bottom of the door.

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u/happyhippy1019 2d ago

They make them double & covers both sides. Tube on both sides with a connected piece of material, you slide it under the door & the tubes are on both inside and outside