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10-02-2008, 05:12 PM #1Registered User
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The ultimate recycle...
Or "The Life of a Sheet"!
So this is really quite simple, but you know, I am just so cheap...
One year I picked up this queen size top sheet from a garage sale for $2. We have a house with lots of archways and not many doors. Come December I'd hang it over one of the archways to block it off for a sewing room for Santa's workshop. Well, I found another sewing area and the sheet was stored in the closet awhile. We used it on the bed awhile, but not much...there was no bottom mate.
So a couple years ago I used part of it for a mock up of my daughter's wedding dress. Not all of it...just some. That left me with enough for a single bed sheet. So I serged the edge and used it as the top sheet on a single bed for awhile.
Well today I looked at it and decided it really needed to find a new life. I de-cluttered my linen closet and had to toss five pillowcases. Rather than buy new ones, I turned this sheet (or what was left of it!) into four new pillowcases using free directions off the Internet.
I'd say that's getting good use out of something!
JeanLast edited by peanut; 10-02-2008 at 05:13 PM.
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$2 well spent.
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Wow now that's being thrifty and smart.... awesome!
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~Just imagine, in the future that very sheet could become hankies, rags or rugs, lol! Way to be thrifty!~
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RUGS! Why didn't I think of that?! Yep, that'll be the next incarnation...maybe a braided rug... LOL
Originally Posted by nuisance26
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