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 didn’t cost us any money.   Reusing old pants is a great way to save money on your summer wardrobe. 

You might also like this video on making maternity pants from old jeans.

images (c) Karen Weideman

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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. 

image by me

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