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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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