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DMsView asked in EnvironmentGreen Living · 1 decade ago

What can I do with all my old clothes? I want to recycle where possible.?

Having spent the weekend having a sort out of a few things, I now find myself with a few clothes that I know I will never wear again. I'm all for taking them to the charity shop but wondered if there was anything I could do with them around the house first.

We're just talking about a few old t-shirts, shirts, pair of jeans, that sort of thing.

So, any ideas from anyone?

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  • Jenn
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Garage sale

    Good Will/ Salvation Army

    Abused women's shelter

    Drop them off down town where the homeless live

    Donate to a church

    Local schools might use them for the kindergartners painting smocks

  • 1 decade ago

    I applaud your decision to reduce, reuse and reclycle first of all. Most any clothing item that is all cotton can be used as a cleaning cloth, especially T shirts, but unless they are very old I wouldn't cut them up. Have you thought about joining FreeCycle online, it started in Tucson and has reached many, many communities with over 3 million members now. Just go to www.freecycle.org and search for a group in your home town, or better yet start one if there isn't one out there. You can give away or gift almost anything, in fact its a rule of Freecycling. It's keeping all our stuff out of the landfills, you may find something you can use and best of all someone will get some use out of your old clothes, and they'll come pick them up.

    Source(s): www.freecycle.org
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well it goes without saying, you can't make curtains from an old t-shirt, but you can use t-shirts as dusters, or cut them into strips and use them for re-stuffing a pet's bed. However, by far the best and most rewarding way to use old clothes is to find the address of your local homeless shelter or battered womens' refuge and take the clothes there. You might also want to take some toothpaste, soap or pampering stuff.. it's a real feel-good thing to do and helps people most in need.

  • 1 decade ago

    When your clothes have reached the end of their wearable lifecycle you can do a number of things with them. Like you said yourself, charity shop is always a good one if the clothes are wearable to somebody. If they are worn out then you can use them round the house as cleaning rags, this is more cost effective to you means you are reducing your general consumption of stuff that would become rubbish! Rags are good for dusting, polishing the car, general stuff. If you've got other clothes you can take them to a clothing recycling bank, there should be one near a supermarket near you somewhere!

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  • 1 decade ago

    In our family, the only clothes that get donated are the ones that the kids have outgrown so that others can see some use out of them.

    As far as our own clothes;

    we turn old clothes into painting & yard work clothes,

    jeans into quilts or patchwork pillows,

    tee shirts into urban punk wear,

    old shirts into cleaning rags, car washing rags, or animal bedding.

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    I use my old clothes to practice sewing techniques and designing ideas before I try it out on real fabric. I also like to use old clothes to design new things. Yesterday, I made a bedspread with old men's shirts and I have a few gaucho pants that I've made from old linen shirts and old suit jackets. If you are a crafter or artist, you might want to check out MotherEarthNews.com, ReadyMade Magazine or Altered Couture Magazine for some cool "deconstructed" clothing ideas. You might also want to google--softies sew--to get ideas on making and designing these really cute Japanese toys which you could keep, gift or donate to a children's hospital.

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  • 1 decade ago

    If you're looking for crafty ideas that don't involve using them for cleaning, you can make small pillows or pillow cases out of old t-shirts, especially if they have designs on them. Even if they don't, it's still a soft covering. If you get enough clothes then you can cut them into patches and make small blankets out of them.

    A non-crafty idea is to use them for stuffing scare crows in the fall, or donate it to a group who lets children make their own scare crows, that's always a fun thing.

    But if you don't think you'll use the 9000 dust rags you can make out of Tshirts, then donate them to a shelter or Salvation army. Someone will get a good use out of them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Cut them up for cloths. Or if the T Shirts have cool pics on them, I once saw someone make really nice cushions...they cut the neck and arms off in a straght line, then they snipped the raw edges into a fringe on both sides, stuffed it and tied the fringy bits together...a no sew cushion.

    Pair of jeans can be cut off for shorts...the extra denim kept for patches.

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