Laundry Day Treasure Hunt

Last week’s “treasure hunt” from the quote about Sir Isaac Newton was "on the grown-ups’ side". This treasure hunt might prove to be a bit more “well-suited” to the younger ones  . . .

The red shirts Jonathan and I wear on Friday were made in Honduras and Bangladesh. Most of us have all sorts of clothing in our closets and drawers. But have you ever discovered where those clothes actually came from? Before arriving at the department stores you and I know so well, they were probably made in a far away country—such as Sri Lanka.

Maybe the next time it’s time to do laundry you can turn it into a treasure hunt and find out who has the widest variety of countries Today Jonathan regretfully realized he had grown out of this shirt. It was bought one memorable day at Niagara Falls but was made in Mexico.represented in the their “treasure chests”! Is there a chance that  between everyone in your family, you might have every continent represented except Antarctica? You might even look up the countries you don’t know on CIA.com or, better yet, on the morning you wear a certain shirt, read the country’s section in the book: Operation World and pray for that country and its people from then on any time you wear it. However you decide to do it, prepare for a surprise!

6 Comments

  1. Don and Donna April 4, 2011 at 6:26 pm #

    A very creative idea. Pray always

  2. DH April 5, 2011 at 9:12 pm #

    What a fun idea! Thanks!

  3. Esther Staddon April 6, 2011 at 5:33 am #

    I found a sweater made in Israel! That was pretty special!

  4. Michael April 10, 2011 at 7:39 pm #

    I was amazed by how many were made in distant small countries.

  5. Donald April 20, 2011 at 7:28 am #

    OK, here are some of ours so far:

    ORIENT:
    Korea
    China
    Hong Kong
    Macau
    Taiwan

    AFRICA:
    Madagascar

    AMERICAS and Oceana:
    USA
    Northern Mariana Islands
    Dominican Republic
    Honduras
    Costa Rica

    EURASIA:
    Russia (my overalls)
    India
    Sri Lanka
    Pakistan
    Thailand
    Bangladesh

    AUSTRALIA
    none

  6. Patience March 27, 2012 at 11:50 am #

    I told my family about your creative idea this morning at the breakfast table. After breakfast, we were all asking each other to see what country our clothes were made in! Tabor’s and I were made in India, others were from Mexico, Vietnam, and China.
    Thankyou for your fun creativity!
    Patience

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