During our recent visit to Reykjavik, Iceland, we came across these jean pot-holders. It's a great way to put your jeans to use during the hot DC summertime (when you probably don't want to wear your jeans anyway). Simply wrap your jeans around the pot-holder of your course, and voila! Instant decor...
Would you try this at home?
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uhhhhh, I just don't like this. I guess it would one thing if it was recycling jean fabric and turning them into pots. But this is inexplicably wrapping plant pots with whole pairs of bluejeans in the middle of summer when I'm not sure the plants need the extra insulation. And then what happens - when it cools down you just unwrap the pots and wear the jeans again? I just don't get it.
I'm really not convinced either...
Slow day at the DC offices I see...............
Barf - this just says "I need the world to know I'm greener than though, style be damned"
This would look awesome beside the urinal planters in the trailer park.
No.
yeah. no. it is far better to recycle your blue jeans by donating them.
yeah. no go. this is really 80's and not in a good way.
uhhhh what?
Is it April 1st already?
magazines have editors right? why doesn't this site?
this is a joke, right?
I think they saw this at Bjork's house.
**Butt ugly **
I live for your site, but I'm having dry heaves.
Sorry,
That anyone would submit that and someone actually thought it a plausible idea -- sad, very sad, not even funny just sad. Don't you edit this stuff? You need some one new to accept submissions.
What happens when it rains and you end up with soggy and moldy jeans?!
i'm not sure what exactly the jeans are adding??
Pot holder is a really strange phrase for this idea. In conversational English it means oven mitt. Very strange choice of words, and a hideous execution. What on earth is the point of this? And, why jeans? Why not slip tube socks over your pots for a more sporty "pot holder"? Why not put a bra and underwear on your plants for a racy "pot holder"? This idea is utter nonsense.
This is just plain weird!
Seriously? I looked to you guys for GOOD ideas . . .not for ideas of what NOT to do. Please don't waste my time during the day with jean pot-holders.
I also look for interesting and new ideas - things I would not think of and perhaps not use. It is different and worthy of a mention. Certainly not offensive and worthy of the rude comments above.
No, I would not try this at home.
At first I, too, thought there was some connection to oven mitts, Griffin. So I was confused as well as horrified. It may be "different", but it's hard to see the value in that when it's also ugly and useless.
absolutely NOT!
Umm, wow, no. Really. don't.
If you were out of your mind bored, you could cut off the pant legs, soak them in resin, and make a pot out of it, which would sort of be ok, but still look bad.
Is this a candid camera kind of joke to see if someone actually likes this? Not eco wise, not cute, not funny.
Eww...is this serious?
zero percent.
Laughable.
with all these responses, this will be one of the faves at the end of the week . . . hee hee trying to imagine wrapping my pots with my clothes--nope, can't see it.
Trailer Park Chic!
my sentiments exactly, jamilkb... slow day at the office. upon first glance i thought it was a joke. when i saw the number of comments, i knew they wouldn't be nice...and rightfully so. ridiculous.
right on, Monica... soggy, moldy AND muddy.
fug.
ha... NO.
is this a joke? my god.....
If you cut the jeans into strips and made a loom-style pot holder (that you would use to handle hot items in the kitchen), then you might have something. Did anyone else have those pot-holder looms when they were a kid?
Why not use old knitted fuschia pink wool leg-warmers from the 1980s?
Lol. That's what I was thinking, jen_g... this is going to turn up in the "favs" because of the number of comments. HA! I'm not into this idea either -- but it sure did illicit reader participation! ;)
wow. 'nuff said
What?
Wrapped in denim cut offs, these would be called Dr. Tobias Funke pots.
Hideous.
Jooly... I still have the potholder loom. Love it!
Hilarious! Does no one have a sense of humor anymore? I think this is a ridiculous idea.
LOFLMAO!
Uhm. That is gross.
Maybe the planters are never-nudes. Maybe they're the Tobias Funke of planters.
...sorry. Random Arrested Development reference.
Ha! I agree with everyone else. These are just ugly.
I forgot about never-nudes! That's the perfect way to explain this!
Oh, so very awful....hmmmmm