By SHELBY BILBRUCK
Columnist

If you have last year’s scarves hanging off your doorknobs, falling from your shelves and balled up in your dresser, it may be time to make way for the new ones you’ve probably already bought. Instead of throwing them out, try some of these re-purposing tricks instead!

Instead of wearing your old scarves around your neck, try wearing them around your head as a hair scarf, in your hair to hold it in a ponytail or wrapped around your wrist as bracelets. You can alter the scarf by ripping or cutting them into long strips so you can achieve the small silk scarf look, without the bulkiness.

Wearing a scarf as a cardigan or kimono is also an option. Tie the two corners on each side of the scarf together to make holes, then stick your arms in and it’s ready to wear.

Besides wearing it as an accessory, you can use them to spice up your other ones!

Take a plain purse and tie one end of the scarf to the bottom of its handle and wrap the scarf all the way up and around it. Once the entire handle is wrapped, tie the scarf to secure it and admire your new purse.

Another way to re-purpose a scarf is using it to make a watch bracelet. Find a watch with removable straps and add a silk scarf or a strip of an old cotton one. Remove the watch’s straps then thread the scarf through, wrap it around your wrist, then viola.

You can also decorate your flats using scraps of old scarves. Tie two strips into bows and hot glue them to the top to create spunky, one-of-a-kind shoes.

Scarves don’t even have to be worn when you reuse them. If you have long scarves, save money on table runners by folding the edges in and spreading them flat across your table.

If you have a small table and like colored scarves, impress visitors with a homemade tablecloth by sewing the scarves together or laying the edges over each other to cover the whole table.

Reduce your pile of unused scarves and make way for new ones by trying out some of these DIYs.