Tangle-Free Headphones

If you're like me, you have two problems when it comes to your headphones:

1. They're dirty
2. They're tangled like nobody's business

Lucky for you, I have a solution for both.  This is going to cause you to reach back into your childhood... think Grade 6.  The epitome of cool was having an arm full of friendship bracelets and I'd like to think that my headphones will get me the same status (fingers crossed!)

I saw this idea originally on Apartment Therapy and they give a pretty good idea of the instructions and link to a page that shows you how to knot the actual thread (so I won't repeat all that here).

My favourite part about my DIY headphones is how colourful they are and they truly do "knot" get tangled (ha ha ha that's a knee-slapper).  Plus, the materials only cost me a total of $0.78 at Wal Mart. Can't beat that!

Here's how mine turned out...

Materials needed are 2 skeins of embroidery floss in your colour of choice and, of course, your headphones

I started at the end by tying a knot nice and tight

Follow the "Chinese Staircase" knotting pattern for the entire length of the headphone cords.  You can vary the colours if you choose but I'm personally a big fan of pink so I just stuck with that.

These babies will never tangle again... BAHAHAHA

Look at how pretty that looks!