what to do with beat to shit jeans

[poly800rock]

I found myself in a pickle. I'm in the process of moving, over the years, accumulated too many jeans, worn the shit out of them, now either they don't fit or have no plans to wear them. What do you guys do with your worn jeans? I'm considering just dumping them at the goodwill, but prefer to keep it in the family...

[xchen]

Swissjeansfreak has a denim museum

Imagine that show hoarders, but it's all beat to shit denim

Edited September 10, 2012 by xchen

[cheapmuthafukr]

cut them up and use them for patching materials. give them to my son or wife to wear. jorts. take a seam ripper and take them apart and make a pattern for making your own. make a quilt out of the material. make bags and sell them on supermarket. frankenjeans. the denim centipede. fuck man... thats just off the top of my head.

[cheapmuthafukr]

my favorite thing tho is to fix em up so they are wearable and presentable, and then give them to someone i know who would appriciate them and use them. after that is donation to a thrift store if they are wearable... i know how much good shit ive gotten over the years, and its cool to think someone else could find them and love them.

[everyinchofgod]

Donate them to swissjeansfreak. He's always looking for jeans for his museum.

[hshewsf]

Keep them. Hang them somewhere either in a frame (like how Selfedge SF presents some worn jeans on their second floor) or by hooks in your closet. There's work and memories in those jeans.

[rome1]

^^ best ones frame and hang, they're practically art at this point. I keep most of mine in a drawer and pull them out every so often to reminisce about. When I move I will hang them behind some weathered wooden frame as art.

[hawkway]

another vote for reudi / swiss-jeansfreak and his denim museum . . .

[unouomedude]

You could sell them. I've seen people post their beat to shit diors and apcs on ebay.

[poly800rock]

my favorite thing tho is to fix em up so they are wearable and presentable, and then give them to someone i know who would appriciate them and use them. after that is donation to a thrift store if they are wearable... i know how much good shit ive gotten over the years, and its cool to think someone else could find them and love them.

I think about that a lot, to give them to a thrift store, and ive done that, but would rather give them to a non-hipster area thrift store. personally wanna give it to the homeless.

Keep them. Hang them somewhere either in a frame (like how Selfedge SF presents some worn jeans on their second floor) or by hooks in your closet. There's work and memories in those jeans.

I have like 8 pairs of beat to crap jeans. i am not going to frame my jeans. I don't have enough room for my framed art, jeans are hardly "art" to me. Sadly, i have more memories with my tshirts than my jeans.

need to get back in touch with the swiss jeans guy.

prps slim fit

samurai contest

samurai black s5000

samurai black knights

naked and famous contest

ande whalls 2 pairs (pains me, but there is no way I can lose that much weight)

ugh

Edited September 11, 2012 by poly800rock

[CBreaze]

before you get rid of them can we at least have some pics of them?

[Mixture]

i could use some beat jeans right now, what size are you?

[grooveholmes]

If anyone bothers to look through the respective threads, all of poly's jeans are legend. Those PRPS are pretty sick. So are the Black Knights. The Ande Whalls.

All.

[TheIntelligentHoodwinker]

a ) Use them for decorating.

b ) Throw them away.

Edited September 11, 2012 by TheIntelligentHoodwinker

[BrownMetallic]

imo, take photos before sending them off.

cheap kinda covered almost every sensible possibilities.

take a pause & re-evaluate if you really want to rid of all those on the list.

when you made the "final cut" : .

1st great suggestion is to fix 'em up & gift them to [enthusiast] friends, as per cheap.

2nd alternative is to sell them @forums like here__ to peeps who appreciate your shizzle

as for the price you wanna sell them for, that's your call.

if you don't need the fund from the proceeds, donate it to charity. that way you're optimizing its purpose & satisfying 2 needs... kinda' more zen gesture, don't you think?

I think about that a lot, to give them to a thrift store, and ive done that, but would rather give them to a non-hipster area thrift store. personally wanna give it to the homeless.

... nothing against Reudi's gig/hobby, but imo your shit are still wearable.

the pragmatic in me tells me they will be better off being actually worn by peeps who would appreciate them__ than just be folded or slumped on a pile, or be hanging on walls.

Edited September 11, 2012 by BrownMetallic

[Superstar]

If you don't want those contest Sammies, I'll take them of your hands Poly. Hell I'll even pay you for them, if they still are in wearable condition.