AG: Aunt Granny's Advice, or How to become an elderly cyclist:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2017 23:11:34 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote:


At one time, some brands of lip salve came in tiny round screw-top
boxes. This was handy in a New York winter; a Chapstick in my pocket
often got too hard to apply, but lip salve meant to be put on with a
fingertip could be rubbed until it thawed.

After my bottle of olive oil leaked all over my tool kit, I began to
carry a lip-salve box filled with Eucerin (original formula: almost
thick enough to slice) for cleaning my hands after fixing a flat.

I've stopped carrying a spare tube, but I still carry the sole
remaining lip-salve box; now it's filled with A&D ointment, and I
carry it in my pocket. A&D is better at cleaning and also heals
shallow injuries. And if it's in my pocket, I can use it to clean off
the chainwheel print when I change into walking shoes.

I ran through a lot of Subway napkins on Wednesday (5 July) -- I
unshipped my chain, among other things, but the chain dirt came off
with just the napkin.

I carry "baby wipes" in my tool pouch. Initially I tried carrying them
in zip lock bags and they all dried out. More recently I bought a
plastic bag welder, I guess it might be called. Place the mouth of a
plastic bag on the "jaws" of the thing and press the top jaw down and
the bag is "welded" close.
http://tinyurl.com/yaysk2mc

It works a treat except that the bags are pretty stout and hard to
tear open so now I also carry a small pocket knife in the tool bag.

--
Cheers,

John B.