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What Can You Do with an Old Pair of Blue Jeans?
One of the many
ways we can experience joy in the post-petroleum era will be from the sheer,
unadulterated pleasure of living frugally. We will re-discover what our
grandparents and great-grandparents did without thinking about it to stretch a
dollar (or a Euro), to keep an extra mouth fed, and yes, to make the most of an
old pair of jeans. So here goes:
- Keep wearing it. You look cool (dare we say sexy?) in old jeans.
- Mend it. Maybe all you need to do is to sew a seam in a strategic location
or two and you're decent again.
- Cut off the legs and make shorts out of them. Hey, they tell us It's going
to get warmer.
- Patch it. Yeah, you can just sew the patch right on.
- Give it to a friend.
- Sell it for cash.
- Cannibalize them for patches for other jeans (and other garments).
- Save the zippers. Zippers are amazing things.
- Save the buttons.
- Save the seams and make rope from them.
- Save the seams and turn them into a denim rug.
- Give the scraps to your kids so they can learn to sew on them.
- If scraps are too small to use, put them in the compost.
What have we left out? Send us yours, and we'll add them (probably).
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