First of all I have to tell you about my sister. She is the type of consumer that likes what she likes. She likes a specific product in a color and size she can wear. She only buys jeans at one store and has worn the same size for 3 years. Luckily when she lost weight I didn't for six months after. She also likes them in a medium color. Black is bad. Light color is equally bad. However every once in a while she buys both wear them once and gives them immediately to me.
Now that being said (or written,) she also likes them to feel a certain way. Not stiff, not loose. When they don't feel right or if heaven forbid she tries a different color, style or size. I get them.
Now I used to actually go to the store and get them. They are $40 pairs of jeans. I bought on sale or put them on my store card (when I had one) and got points to buy more clothes. Problem was I never really needed all those clothes (more on that later.) So when she started giving these to me I saw it as devine intervention and accepted. Last time I looked she had given me 14 pairs in 5 years.
The first thing I do is check the inseam for wear and zig zag stitch to reinforce them. As time passes and I get a split I patch it quickly. I also employ the 3 Theory introduced by Amy Dacyczyn in The Tightwad Gazette. The oldest (2) pair gets used for yard work. The middle gets used on a daily basis, and the unpatched gets used to go out.
I also have used 4 pairs as a basis of a quilt for my son. I gave 2 pair to my cousin who is our size. I have 4 pair I wear and 3 pair are in a box to use in the future. 2 pair are long gone I made a few hot pads and I think a draft dog with them. I also expect her to give me more in the fall.
All of this for excepting a gift of recycled clothes.
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