So if you have a husband who's not a wimp, he probably spends time in a shop, garage or building or whatever he calls it... We are lucky to have a huge shop which my husband spends countless hours in. He is a mans man...changes oil, brakes and other work on the cars, he processes our deer meat, and works on our lawn mower and 4 wheelers all in our shop, plus a million other things that I am not going to take all day mentioning. Point at hand...he works on everything which saves us money because we don't have to pay people to do it for us :)

So every guy who works or tinkers on things need shop rags. They are pretty expensive if you go and buy them and they never last long because they end up in the trash or too dirty to clean. So for all you women out there I have something you can do to help your man and find use to something you would normally toss in the trash. Yay for being thrifty!!!

I finally had to break down any buy Mark new t shirts (you know just regular white shirts) and I hate to throw away the old ones because they were still in good shape. So I decided to cut them up and make shop rags out of them. They are great for when you clean your car or anything else in the shop...they also work pretty well for dusting. So if you have old shirts laying around before you trash them cut them up and make them useful!

I will show you how I do it....

First you make a cut down the sew line on collar where the line goes down to the sleeve. You only have to cut through the collar part and then you can rip apart at the seam the rest of the way down.


Once you get to the sleeve part you will have to make another cut along the sleeve and the rip apart all the way around. I don't use the sleeve part. (I try to get rid of all the parts that have sew lines)



Once the sleeves are off you can make a cut and rip down the center of the base of where the sleeves were. Once you do this on both sides you will have two halves of the shirt. I then go back and cut the little collar off the shirt (you can leave it if you want).



Now that you have to halves depending on the size of the shirt and how big you want your rags you can make cuts and just rip the shirt into whatever size you would like.



My shirts were extra large so I cut the half of a shirt in half which left me with 4 rags per shirt. This is just a matter of personal preference.



Here is one of my rags :)


scraps left over from shirts



and a lovely pile of shop rags for my sweetie!!!


So save yourself some money the next time you have some old T Shirts. Cut them up and do something nice for the hard working man in your life :) Mine loved his new shop rags. I love the white t shirts because I can wash his rags with Clorox and get them super clean!!!