Carrie Melago wrote that there are people across the United States desperate to get their hands on your tangled balls of yarn:

• A group of “detanglers” find that fixing tangled up balls of yarn helps relax them in an overwhelming world.
• To that end 25 pound boxes of tangled yarn can go for $50 on eBay.
• Online community sites have sprung up where people can send photographs of the mess they’ve gotten their yarn in – and people offer to help untangle it for them.
• They also discuss untangling techniques. All agree that using scissors to cut out the knots is never the answer.
• Those on the community like to share “tangle porn” where they show before and after pictures of their ultimately perfect looking balls of yarn.
• The community’s proudest project is the stuff of legend – 50 balls of yarn mistakenly thrown into the dryer. Over a dozen detanglers work together to fix it up.
• Some are branching out and offering to help untangle headphone cables and Christmas tree lights.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal

Via: Marginal Revolution