Goodbye Kifaru Cap

I’ve had this Kifaru cap for, let’s see, about 4 years now. Got it when I ordered some packs from them. Wore it much longer than I do most ball caps. Being a guy who regards himself as concerned about the planet we live on, I feel bad about it, but to me ball caps are a disposable commodity. I wear most articles of clothing once or twice and then they go in the wash. Hats for some strange reason get worn many, many, many times in a row without benefit of a wash. Strange that. Anyway, they get to be, oh, a tad disgustipating. I can never seem to get them smelling fresh again. I wash them, usually by hand, not often enough, but they reach a point where the polite thing to do is to chuck them and get a new one.

This one, probably because it was my Kifaru cap, stayed around past its best before date. I threw a boonie cap in the washing machine yesterday, and I have done it with a ball cap once in a while before, so I chucked it in as well. Boonie hat came out fine, ball cap...it finally gave up the ghost.

4 years of frequent wear, sun beating down on it, sweat, dust, rain...being battered around in a washing machine was the last straw. 

I’m not about to wear it with the cloth on the bill all torn through. Just looks too cheap. So I guess that’s it for this cap.

I had plans to make an M-43 style cap, so I think I will recycle the plastic of the bill and use it in that project. So, not a total loss. 

Maybe one of these days when I order something from Kifaru again I’ll get another cap, but not really a priority right now.