bookofjoe's Favorite Thing: Disposable Latex Gloves

I became acquainted with the myriad uses of disposable latex gloves back in medical school when I was exposed to them in the course of my clinical rotations.

When I spent my obligatory six weeks on general surgery during my third year I'd occasionally take a box of gloves home — if I could remember to do so after 36 straight hours awake running around the hospital. (There are boxes of gloves above each scrub sink in the OR.)

I continued stocking my home from the hospital from then on until I stopped working full time in the OR and eventually used up my stash.

I'd buy a box at the hardware store whenever I remembered.

Then came the web and things got much better and easier.

Nowadays when I'm running out I buy a box from Amazon and they arrive the next day.

You can too!

$13.23 for a box of 100.

Things I've used them for:

• Gluing

• Painting

• Spackling

• Cleaning toilets

• Cleaning gutters

• Handling trash cans

• Sanding in the workshop

• Dealing with dead animals

• Cleaning up rotten garbage

• Cooking with garlic or onions

• Picking up dog and cat doodoo

• Extracting gunk from drains and pipes

• Handling irritating, caustic, or toxic liquids and solids

• Being paranoid, and not wanting to leave my fingerprints on things