{"id":249,"date":"2015-02-10T23:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:53:05","slug":"oldjeans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/joy\/oldjeans","title":{"rendered":"What Can You Do with an Old Pair of Blue Jeans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep wearing it. You look cool (dare we say sexy?) in old jeans.<\/li>\n<li>Mend it. Maybe all you need to do is to sew a seam in a strategic location or two and you&#8217;re decent again.<\/li>\n<li>Cut off the legs and make shorts out of them. Hey, they tell us It&#8217;s going to get warmer.<\/li>\n<li>Patch it. Yeah, you can just sew the patch right on.<\/li>\n<li>Give it to a friend.<\/li>\n<li>Sell it for cash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cannibalize them for patches for other jeans (and other garments).<\/li>\n<li>Save the zippers. Zippers are amazing things.<\/li>\n<li>Save the buttons.<\/li>\n<li>Save the seams and make rope from them.<\/li>\n<li>Save the seams and turn them into a denim rug.<\/li>\n<li>Give the scraps to your kids so they can learn to sew on them.<\/li>\n<li>If scraps are too small to use, put them in the compost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What have we left out? Send us yours, and we&#8217;ll add them (probably).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/joy\/oldjeans\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Can You Do with an Old Pair of Blue Jeans?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}