I do. I have heavy, coarse string (what my father always called “twine”) and fine string, cotton string and hemp string and some kind of synthetic string that I don’t like very much.
String has many excellent uses. Here are some:
• Securing jigsaw puzzle boxes so they don’t come open and lose pieces, while making the boxes easy to open without marring the surface.
• Dangling cat toys for more entertaining chasing. (We have a feline houseguest at present.)
• Lacing up a stuffed turkey before it goes in the oven.
• Fastening bundles of magazines for donation or discard.
• Extending the pull chain on a closet light bulb.
• Running a little line above the clothes dryer for hanging up cloth slippers to dry (with a clothespin).
And, even more important,
• Making cat’s cradles to entertain young children.
I don’t know whether any of these uses is unexpected. Given the wonderfulness of string, I think we would do well to expect all uses. It is probably an essential for survival in the wild.
Even if I don’t use string daily, I consider it a household staple and wouldn’t be without it.