Earth Day is this Sunday. It is very important that we all do our share to reduce, reuse, and recycle. With this in mind, Is there a special item belonging to your child or significant other that you would personally like to see recycled and reused…as a dishrag?
Yes, Oneanddone, you got it. All those clothes that they refuse to part with that make cringe every time they come out of the closet. Like that!
There are things I would like to never see again, but they wouldn't end up as dishrags. I tried this once and when my son saw me dusting with his old shirt he got really upset with me! My husbands clothes would probably get reclaimed. I could just see him taking his old shirt out of the rag bag and putting it back on!
Usually I just make things disapear when noones looking! They get taken to the clothing donation box.
Why would I use a special item? There are plenty of ratty old tshirts I could cut up into a dishrag.
Okay, I'm rereading this... you mean special to *them*, right? In that case, no, I just donate them to Goodwill. A friend gave us a box full of clothes, like with Tigger and Cars and Winnie the Pooh and such on them, I won't let my 6 year old wear those to school, so those could be made dishrags for sure!
my mom always uses socks
I think I see what you're getting at.
I would have several options for Earth Day that appeal to the evil side:
O. of MANY pro football jerseys my son has collected over the past few years
or
O. of the 4 zillion t-shirts stuffed into my husbands two t-shirt drawers that NEVER leave once in there....Of the 4 zillion, 3 zillion,999 schmillion are GREY! Drives me nuts.
I love reusing DH's "holey" T-shirts as rags, especially since he has new ones from yours truly.
As for DDs? I saved all her clothes incase we have another. If not, we will donate them.
Actually, no... I wouldn't reuse any of my child's clothing as a dishrag. I'm all for reusing or recycling, but I think their clothes could be better put to use as clothing for children in need.
he's not in my kids closet but how about my ex-husband
We did this with some hand-me-downs that my husband's family gave us for our son. Especially the ones that had the "wrong" sports teams on them. I'm making those into a braided rag rug where the printing will be hidden. We used pieces from the really cute worn out clothes to make a quilt. Another project was a dustcloth made with a chenille technique (make a stack several layers thick, sew parallel lines across all of it, cut between the lines, and let it fray & fuzz on purpose).
My son made some "handkerchiefs" out of soft t-shirt material because he thought they would be better for the environment. He got to thinking, what if schools had those instead of a box of kleenex. I told him that's an interesting thought, but there's no chance his school will ever get a washing machine.....
