JCPL Teens

My friend and I have been trying it out so that we can keep up-to-date on what is happening in each other’s lives. If you have a friend that you want to send a letter to or lives far away and you want to keep talking – try this idea!

My friend and I actually both live near each other, but we thought it would be fun to give this a try. We found a pair of pants that fit us both, a cheap pair from a thrift store for around $5, and started sending them to each other. We write on the pants with different colors of thin sharpies. We write a couple of sentences about that time that we had the pants, usually a week or two, and tell about anything from homecoming to falling down the stairs. We have made our own set of rules, which includes actually WEARING the pants. Yes, we do wear pants with writing on them to the mall or school. This also includes dating the entries and doodling a little bit around our entry. We also like to include little knick-knacks from times we spent together or something cool that we might have found that week, like a foreign coin. Another thing that we think is nifty is if one person is doing something fun one week that they have the jeans with them.

If your parent’s aren’t so cool with you writing on the jeans, write your entries on a piece of notebook paper or in a notebook that travels with the pants. If you decided to use the notebook paper, have your friend keep the letter you sent and you can keep theirs! If you put in a notebook then you can have both sets and can keep the rules on the inside cover.

This is just one way to keep in touch with someone you don’t see all that often. So far it’s worked out really well for my friend and I, who usually don’t talk unless we’re at family get-togethers. Just a few things to keep in mind – make sure the pants fit both or all of you, you make your own UNIQUE set of rules, and that you have fun and keep in touch. Because that’s what this idea is based on!

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