What are you supposed to do with old clothes?

Re:What are you supposed to do with old clothes? by quadrifoliate on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:07PM (#32419036)

> We can use old electronics as a paper weight (“and more!”) if we want to but people don’t normally promote that.

The reason for this is that people don't usually buy paperweights that are indistinguishable from, say, an old and discarded mobile phone.

They do, on the other hand, often buy things like hand towels or dish rags that are indistinguishable from home-made ones that are just old clothes torn up.

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Re:What are you supposed to do with old clothes? by klondike_klive on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:51PM (#32419433)

My 4-yr old kid calls them "broken-down t-shirts" - very useful to have a bag of them in the kitchen and bathroom for spills and messes. Before I was always torn between wasting a dishcloth or using a load of paper kitchen towel which might disintegrate.

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Re:What are you supposed to do with old clothes? by dieselgate on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:30AM (#32422247)

I was torn by whether or not to comment on any wordplay

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Re:What are you supposed to do with old clothes? by klondike_klive on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:06AM (#32423613)

Purely accidental!

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Re:What are you supposed to do with old clothes? by dieselgate on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:24AM (#32422209)

For sure, am not saying people shouldn’t reuse their clothing for x, y, z. I prefer to make patches for holes in clothes with other old clothes and just think the message should be more about reduce reuse recycle in general rather than “make rags”.

Edit for clarity

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