• toofpic@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    All my life, I was tying the knot “wrong side up”, so it was untying. I was checking out a videonon how to tie high boots the easiest way, and the problem was mentioned. Now nothing ever happens to them.
    It’s hard to explain in details, so here’s a quick check if your shoes are untying themselves. When you start tying, you hold two loops in your hands and cross them, putting one above the other, right? Well, this time, put them the other way around (left on right if it was right on left), and finish the same way you always did it.
    You will immediately feel that the knot is not slipping. This is because you also do the first simple knot in a certain way, and first and the main knot has to be different relative to each other

  • Dallimjp@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    You’re probably tying your shoes wrong. The knot you want is a double slipped square knot. If you tie it that way it never comes undone.

  • observes_depths@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    For those who can’t be bothered looking up the difference between a double-slipped granny knot and a double-slipped reef knot, tie the first and second knots with different ends of the string on top (eg. right over left, then left over right). If you do it right it will hold, no need for a double knot.

    As for earphones (does anyone even use those anymore?) push them into a small pouch, start from one end and work your way along, pull them out the same way (it’s quicker than it sounds).