Friday, April 17, 2009

How To Shred Your Blue Jeans

These are just your ordinary kitchen graters.
You grate cheese. Carrots, lemons, chocolate and whole nutmeg too. Occasionally you might push play dough through them to get imitation spaghetti, or mermaid hair. Any way that's what I've always used them for.


But the other day, I learned a completely new way to use a kitchen grater.
Oh gee golly miss molly. Hold onto your britches now.


You can shred your blue jeans with them too!
Didn't you always wonder how to do that? I know I've been dying to find out.


According to the most fashion savvy teen in my life, a grater works wonders to remove the outer layer of blue threads, leaving only the white threads to show through. You pay big bucks in the retail stores for jeans that look like this.

Hmmmm, can't you just see all those little worker bees in the bluejeans factory rubbing their cheese graters in perfect rhythm back and forth across the yards of denim?

You can take things a step further...rip the holes bigger


or write words with a permenant sharpie marker.

Then you'll have a real valuable pair of jeans like this.


Oh, and lest you judge my parenting skills too harshly, leggings are worn under those jeans SO NO SKIN SHOWS THROUGH!

12 leave me a comment:

  1. I want to sing, "oompa, loompa,doopity-doo", when I think of those cheese-grating worker bees! Fun visual. Have a great weekend, Monica! Debi
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  2. I think those jeans are a seriously valuable commodity. I wish I'd kept some of my favorite clothes from middle and high school, just for the retro factor.
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  3. Simply amazing!!! The cheese grater put my "tiger-paw" (sandpaper) to shame.

    Thanks for the tip.
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  4. this is dope, unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  5. Great idea. My son, a budding rocker, is putting on a show tonight and is now impressed with his at home Dad. thanks.
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  6. OMG!

    I had been dying to find out how i cud rip my jeans like thiss! THANXX!!
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  7. omg!! ive been tryinq to do diz!! thank yuh so much!!
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  8. Preetty good. Worked for me but sicorrs work too:)
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  9. so basically u just scratch the denim with the grater, till satisfied???
    thts it???
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  10. Yes Danny, scratch to your hearts content, or otherwise satisfied! Too easy.
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  11. thisis amazing!!!! exactly what i needed........ wellp i guess im gonna go attack my jeans now:)
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