examples of recycling clothes: turn your favourite old jeans into shopping bags, handbags, mail bags etc.
Change the style of your t-shirts and redesign them into sleeveless running gears or a tube top.
add extra embellishments to your old blouses or t-shirts to give it a new look or change the colour of your blouses with dylon, tie-dye (you can never go wrong with tie-dye)
cut your old towels and make them into floor rugs & fix car rags
keep the embellishments on your shoes, handbags, accessories and recycle them for wall applique usage, home crafts or magnets
2006-06-24 18:51:09 · 7 answers · asked by romancing the stones 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
I love shopping thrift stores. It's amazing what some people give away. There's an obvious problem these days with having to have the "latest" whatever, so what you bought last month is horribly out-dated and you have to go buy new whatever! It's a sickness with some women that you can't wear anything more than a few times and you have to keep up with the fashion mags. I never fell for it. I wear what's comfy and what I like and if anybody doesn't like it, they don't have to look at me! You have some great ideas for recycling, but I doubt if anyone will take them seriously.
2006-06-24 18:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think most people want to recycle their clothes. (just a personal opinion) It may be a good idea to donate clothes that are still in good condition. Shopping is really fun. However if a person has a shopping addiction then look into why. It may be caused by unhappiness. Make changes in your life so you don't have to rely on new finds at the stores and malls to make you happy.
2006-06-24 19:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by papricka w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People now days are not into "making" thier own clothes...
So, using the sewing machine is about as alien to the younger generation as these computers are to the older generation :)
If your not "brought up to use it", then you dont know what to do with it...
Its easier with Thrift Shops, (such as Goodwill Industries, and The Salvation Army runned clothes donation shops,and second hand stores, that people dont bother anymore).
Also, Gabriels an other "cheapie stores" are just around almost every corner, so, its the 'throw away' generation that is upon us now.
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-07-06 03:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just going by what I'm wearing right now, scrub shirt (work) paid .50 cents
good jeans paid .50 cents
brand name new bra paid .10 cents
Old Navy leather sandals paid .25 cents
I only have so much room so I don't do much remaking, but I sure profit from other peoples wasteful habits by shopping yard sales and thrift stores.
2006-07-07 14:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Laura B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i do no longer. i admire clothing, yet i'm no longer relatively experienced in choosing out the final clothing for myself. I do merely no longer see any reason to have incredibly some clothing; it rather is humorous; I placed on purely the main undemanding of upload-ons. I additionally on no account have or ever had incredibly some funds, yet I do savour the marvelous thing approximately style that others can accomplish. no longer for me, in my view, however. i like to placed on user-friendly, classic issues. anybody's diverse, i assume.
2016-10-31 10:55:08 · answer #5 · answered by ai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people have more money than brains. Just today I bought two great shirts that I can wear to work for $7.00.
2006-07-05 16:47:25 · answer #6 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until our culture values ecology and thrift over mass consumption , people will not change their habits
2006-06-25 02:04:08 · answer #7 · answered by ps2754 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋