by Hope
Due to my weight loss over this past year..and continued weight loss goal, I have to purchase some new summer clothes. I mentioned this is my last budget update. My shorts from last summer are literally falling off…so this is definitely a need and not a want at this point. Especially with the weather hitting the upper 80s this week.
So I thought I would be smart and frugal and make my own shorts…
Thrift store jeans for $3.50
Princess and I visited a local thrift store where I picked up two pairs of jeans for $3.50 each. I tried them on there to make sure they fit properly.
Then I used fabric scissors to cut them off at home….
Cut off jean shorts for the summer.
I thought it was the perfect plan…until I wore this pair for the first time. Within a few minutes, the already distressed fabric ripped all the way up my leg. So this pair was a utter and complete failure.
I’ve got one more pair to try, and it is more of a traditional blue jean fabric and not distressed, so I’m hoping it holds up better. I really do want some casual, cheap shorts to wear this summer!
Hope is a creative, solutions-focused business manager helping clients grow their business and work more efficiently by leveraging expertise in project management, digital marketing, & tech solutions. She’s recently become an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive kids have spread their wings. She lives with her 3 dogs in a small town in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the beaches any day. She struggles with the travel bug and is doing her best to help each of her kids as their finish schooling and become independent (but it’s hard!) She has run her own consulting company for almost twenty years! Hope began sharing her journey with the BAD community in the Spring of 2015 and feels like she has finally in a place to really focus on making wise financial decisions.
Did you hem them? You have to do that or they will fray.
It’s ok if they fray. That’s another look all it’s own.
Not to sound ignorant but by the time you spend $7 on jeans trying to DIY, just buy some shorts. Garage sales, Ebay, etc etc
Do you have clothes mentor in your area?
Look up the denim chenille quilt on a website called glory quilts. I got a bunch of oversized jeans at a garage sale and I’m going to make one.
Did they not have shorts at the thrift store?
Just from experience – jeans are cut differently to jeans shorts. You’re better off finding a good second hand pair than taking to perfectly good jeans with scissors and getting a weird fitting result.
10 days and no new post. Hellooo? Owners of the website! I wish you find new bloggers. I miss the days when Beks and Tricia were blogging.
I agree Canan! I miss Claire, too. I hope she is doing well. Maybe an update from Adam/Emily?
I’ve really wondered how Claire ended up.