Children's clothing often gets too small when it only has a few uses. Which, in most cases, assumes that garments are rendered useless when they are still in good use, often practically new. If you have more children at home, it is possible that the little ones reuse the clothes of the elders, and even cousins or close friends.
But donating children's clothes that are too small is not the only option to free up closets, with some sewing tricks you can transform the garments in new ones and even, use the clothes to decorate some spaces in your home. Here are some tips for reuse children's clothing in an easy and most importantly, economical way.
How to reuse the clothes that are too small for my child?
Surely you know those patchwork quilts so showy and colorful that appear often in movies and television series. In some countries, there is a tradition of creating these quilts from generation to generation, telling the family story through fabrics and stitches. A family memory that is preserved as the greatest of treasures and that can accompany families for many, many years.
Well, here is a beautiful idea to keep part of your children's clothes in a special item for future generations of your family. You may wearing your children's t-shirts, shirts, or sweaters once they no longer serve them. You just have to cut square pieces of the same size and use the patchwork technique to create a unique and very special quilt.
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With a few sewing tricks, some special fabric adhesive, and some good scissors, you can create new garments from what you already have at home. A very simple example is to transform a pants into a skirt, it really is very easy and you just have to make some cuts and seams. You can too turn long pants into summer shorts. Even add some pieces of fabric from other garments that have already become too small to give those pants that still have some uses a little longer.
Sell online
In the digital age, selling the clothes that no longer serve your children is very simple. There are different applications with which you can put the garments on sale inside and outside your country. Although if you want to make it easier, you can practice bartering and thus recover one of those ancient ways of life that has almost been lost. Sure that In your city there are groups for the exchange of things for babies and children, which generally communicate through social networks.
This is one of the best ways to get some money with those clothes that no longer work, and even to exchange clothes and other children's things, for others that they may need more. Even, you can create an exchange group at your children's school. Surely there are many families who are in the same situation. Put up some posters on the school bulletin board with those clothes that you want to exchange, surely you will have news soon.
A donation
Some things are special and hold special memories, which makes it difficult to let go of those things, even if they are material things. These garments are what you can use for patchwork or for any other way of reusing clothes in decoration. But other garments that stay small, normal things that have no sentimental value but that you do not want to sell, those clothes can have great use in families who are in a time of need.
Solidarity is necessary to improve life from other persons. Those clothes that have already become too small, can be very useful for other children. With each wardrobe change per season, try to save some clothes that no longer serve your children to donate.