First, I wanted to apologize to my subscribers, for some reason some old posts were sent out the other day.   I can’t figure out why this occurred, but hopefully it won’t happen again!

Today, I want to share a tip with you that I have been meaning to try for YEARS!!!  This was actually my hubby’s idea.   Hubby and I both have jobs in which we wear dress pants each day for work.  While, I have  bought many different colors of pants through the years, I prefer to wear black pants.  I try to keep my wardrobe as simple as possible.

While my pants have stayed in good condition, the color had really faded.   I was about to go out and buy new pants when I decided to try to dye my pants.   I could just throw them away if it didn’t work out, so no great risk.   We purchased a bottle of Rit Liquid Dye for about $2.00 and decided to go for it.

I was a bit nervous, but I decided to attempt the dyeing process in the washing machine.   I followed the directions on the bottle and was very happy with the results.   Over the holiday weekend I dyed 4 pairs of Docker like dress pants and two pairs of black jeans.   This little experiment saved me about $125 as I would have otherwise gone out and bought 5 new pairs of black pants, if I could have found some on sale for $25/each.

I made sure to clean out the washing machine by running a empty load of very hot water, detergent and 1 cup of bleach before washing any other clothes.  Seemed to work just great!!

I am not sure how the dyeing job will hold up, but so far we are very happy with the results!  Definitely something that I will do again in the future and it was for the savings.

Happy Savings!