by Hope
Due to my weight loss over this past year..and continued weight loss goal, I have to purchase some new summer clothes. I mentioned this is my last budget update. My shorts from last summer are literally falling off…so this is definitely a need and not a want at this point. Especially with the weather hitting the upper 80s this week.
So I thought I would be smart and frugal and make my own shorts…
Princess and I visited a local thrift store where I picked up two pairs of jeans for $3.50 each. I tried them on there to make sure they fit properly.
Then I used fabric scissors to cut them off at home….
I thought it was the perfect plan…until I wore this pair for the first time. Within a few minutes, the already distressed fabric ripped all the way up my leg. So this pair was a utter and complete failure.
I’ve got one more pair to try, and it is more of a traditional blue jean fabric and not distressed, so I’m hoping it holds up better. I really do want some casual, cheap shorts to wear this summer!
Hope is a resourceful, solutions-driven online business manager with over two decades of experience helping clients streamline operations, manage projects, and grow their businesses through digital marketing and technology.
But life has a way of rewriting your plans.
A year ago, Hope made the decision to move in with her aging parents full time – a season she wouldn’t trade, even as it came with its own financial and emotional weight. Earlier this year, she lost her mother, and is now walking the tender, disorienting path of grief while learning what “forward” looks like from here.
Hope came to the Blogging Away Debt community in 2015 as a single mom raising five foster and adoptive children. She’s written through job changes, financial setbacks, and the bittersweet transition to an empty nest. Her kids are finding their footing in the world now – and so is she.
Rooted in faith and fueled by the same perseverance she’s brought to every hard season, Hope is ready to face her finances with fresh eyes and an honest pen. She believes that clarity, courage, and community can change the trajectory of anyone’s story including her own.
She lives in Austin, TX with her dad, loves adventures with her dog Addie, and is figuring out, one step at a time, what this next chapter is meant to be.
Did you hem them? You have to do that or they will fray.
It’s ok if they fray. That’s another look all it’s own.
Not to sound ignorant but by the time you spend $7 on jeans trying to DIY, just buy some shorts. Garage sales, Ebay, etc etc
Do you have clothes mentor in your area?
Look up the denim chenille quilt on a website called glory quilts. I got a bunch of oversized jeans at a garage sale and I’m going to make one.
Did they not have shorts at the thrift store?
Just from experience – jeans are cut differently to jeans shorts. You’re better off finding a good second hand pair than taking to perfectly good jeans with scissors and getting a weird fitting result.
10 days and no new post. Hellooo? Owners of the website! I wish you find new bloggers. I miss the days when Beks and Tricia were blogging.
I agree Canan! I miss Claire, too. I hope she is doing well. Maybe an update from Adam/Emily?
I’ve really wondered how Claire ended up.