I have a ton of old jeans that are worn out. I wear out all my jeans in exactly the same spot--the inner upper thigh. And I continue to wear them until it's practically indecent. It's too high up to turn into shorts, so I've been just collecting jeans over the past I-don't-know-how-many years because I didn't know what to do with them, and I couldn't bear throwing them out. Most of our too-worn-out clothes get turned into rags, but I didn't think denim would make good rags. I thought about making a quilt, but I'm not quite that crafty! A friend of mine is making reusable gift bags, and I miss having them (my family always had them when I was growing up--remember when the gas station used to give them out?) so I think I might make a bunch of denim gift bags!
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Also, one of the jeans has already been turned into something. (Well, just a little bit of it.) DH had to replace a bit of the floor in our house (it was caving in...this house needs to be torn down within a couple of years!) and while he did that, he put in a hatch so he can easily access our water valve. Otherwise, he has to worm his way under the house because our crawl space can barely be called a 'crawl' space! Anyway, the handle of the hatch cover is now the hem of my old jeans!
