{"id":5054,"date":"2009-04-23T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:36:44","slug":"how-to-make-your-own-rice-sock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-living\/how-to-make-your-own-rice-sock\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Your Own Rice Sock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With many children in the house I often wind up playing nurse maid to someone\u2019s broken something or other.<\/p>\n<p>This is simply the way it goes and I\u2019m very happy I\u2019m around to be able to do it.\u00a0 I often hear of moms talking about how a hug and a Band-Aid fixes every boo boo.<\/p>\n<p>However, Band-Aids are expensive, not to mention the exposure to latex.\u00a0 So I prefer to use a rice sock and a hug.\u00a0 Now, you might think that rice socks are simply for the imagined hurts, not so!\u00a0 We use ours for many a reason, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>growing pains (kids)<\/li>\n<li>sore backs (mine)<\/li>\n<li>cramps (teens)<\/li>\n<li>bed and car seat warming (babies)<\/li>\n<li>stiff necks<\/li>\n<li>headaches<\/li>\n<li>and many more uses!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fastest way to make a rice sock is to use plain tube socks.\u00a0 Fill it with plain white rice, not fast cooking.\u00a0 You will want to put enough rice to heat but not so much that you can\u2019t move the rice around in the sock some.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the benefit of a rice sock is the fact that it can fit your knee one day and your neck the next.\u00a0 You then tie a knot in the end.<\/p>\n<p>For a money saving tips you can use clean, but older socks or matchless socks.\u00a0 My personal preference is to buy a bag of really big, grey colored tube socks, as I find the older socks tend to lose small grains of rice through invisible holes.\u00a0 Grey is nice because it hides the wear and tear to the sock.\u00a0 Buying the rice in bulk can give you plenty for a rice sock per person in your family with plenty left over for several meals.<\/p>\n<p>If you are handy with sewing, you can also sew the end closed.\u00a0 Some families have even taken to using various fabrics to make their rice socks.\u00a0 I\u2019m not handy with a needle and thread so I do the sock version.<\/p>\n<p>To use your rice sock, throw it in your microwave for two minutes.\u00a0 Since microwaves vary, you can play around with the amount of time it takes to heat it to your liking.\u00a0 Since rice socks lose heat as time goes on, they are safe to take to bed.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a microwave, simply toss it in the dryer with your clothes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robin Elise Weiss is a stay at home mother to eight kids from ages 17 to 7 months.\u00a0 She is the author of eight parenting books and you can find her writing about pregnancy and birth at: http:\/\/pregnancy.about.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With many children in the house I often wind up playing nurse maid to someone\u2019s broken something or other. This is simply the way it goes and I\u2019m very happy I\u2019m around to be able to do it.\u00a0 I often hear of moms talking about how a hug and a Band-Aid fixes every boo boo. 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