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Amy Pulsipher

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Location: 6b, stony clay, Utah

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From T-shirt to dusting rags

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Mark Miner

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Location: PNW Steppe climate, not far from the big river.

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Hey PEP-folks,

My busted flannel is now a nice stack of shop rags! It served for at least fifteen years, so I have no complaints, and it will serve for a while more.

Happy homesteading!
Mark

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Hal Schibel

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posted 1 month ago

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I finally tackled the multi-decade pileup of T-shirts. All of the cotton shirts got turned into fabric scraps for the textile BB (https://permies.com/p/2959399) and the not-so-cotton shirts got turned into rags. I made sure to cut out all of the designs for sentimental reasons. The backs, bottoms, and sleeves became rags. I didn't do anything special to them, just cut them up.

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