Thrifty Use for Old Jeans
May 10, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Reusing and Recycling, clothes, frugal living
Each year we have the same two problems:
1) My daughter outgrows almost all of her pants in the length.
2) It’s hard to find shorts that are long enough.
What is the deal with short shorts anyway????
This year, I decided to take some of her old jeans and try to make shorts out of them.
I cut the jeans right above the spot where she had wore out the knees. I was just going to roll them up,but decided they might unravel so I had my mom put a stitch in the bottom.
Ta-da. Now we have cute shorts that are long enough and they …read more
Guess How Many Pairs of Pants
December 31, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under clothes
I am very blessed. My best friend from high school has a daughter that ten months older than my daughter. What’s so great is that she passes down all her daughter’s clothes to me for my little girl. Sometimes I end up with way more than I can use though.
She just gave me two more big bags of clothes and now that my daughter has a big closet, I decided to hang up everything she has. I knew she had a lot of pants, but I didn’t realize she had this many.
Guess how many pants she has. I’ll let you know on Friday. …read more
