makedomondays

Make-Do Mondays is a carnival dedicated to sharing the creative, frugal or even humble ways we’re making-do.

Here’s my installment for this week’s Make-Do Mondays:

For Christmas I asked for pajamas.

I thought that would be an easy gift for the family to find. After all, if the size was off a little on a blouse, that could be a problem; but surely it wouldn’t matter with pajamas, right?

Well, the family gave me a very cute pair of blue pajamas from Target that looked like they’d work great until I held them up. We quickly determined that the tiny 100 percent cotton pajama set would have been a better fit for my slender 11-year-old daughter than for me. Plus, I have a history of shrinking any item that contains more than 70 percent cotton. If I kept that pajama set, I’d be donating it to the kids’ American Girl collection after its first trip through the wash.

So I sent off The Belgian Wonder to exchange it. He headed back to Target in search of a replacement. When he returned, he reported that the after-Christmas pickings were slim and pulled out of the bag the only option he could find. We unfolded what turned out to be a surely mis-tagged tent-like set of pink pajamas.

So I gave up.

Someday soon I hope to find something that works nicely and fits the budget.

For now, I’m making-do with my comfy old T-shirts and sweat pants, like I did before the Christmas Pajama Ordeal.

Hey, the sweat pants are pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

And even better?

They fit.

How about you? How are you making-do?

To join the Make-Do Mondays carnival, leave a link in the comments (Sorry, but Mr. Linky prefers only one post per day, and I already dedicated it to MMM). I’ll update this post by hand with names and links here:

Make-Do Mondays Participants

  1. Heather at Madame Rubies
  2. 50s Housewife (make-do bedspread)
  3. Leila at Like Mother, Like Daughter (Make-Do Room: putting pretty things around)
  4. Ms. Moxie at Little Bits (cat box)