I’ve lost enough weight that almost all of my belts need another hole. This belt I have on is one of the few that does not, has one more hole to go.
Anyone put a hole in your belt? If so, how?
For instance, can I drill through the material? Or is a spinning metal drill bit not great with leather (or whatever most men’s belts are made of)? I have some exacto knives, so very sharp and pointy. Would those work?
Or should I just go buy new belts?
You could buy a couple of new belts, but where’s the fun in that? 
I find a drill bit that is the same diameter as the existing holes, then try to drill a hole or two at an equal distance from the last one. Unless you want to trim the end of the belt, it’s going to look weird after you get using to the second new hole. That’s the point at which I go belt-shopping, lol!
Drilling or punching through leather is never a problem. Drilling through plastic could be, but it takes so little effort to drill through a belt that I wouldn’t worry about releasing toxic gas or anything from heat build-up. Of course a punch would work as well on plastic as on leather.
Thanks, Paul. I will try to drill one this weekend.
You bring up a good point about the length of the belt. The one I’m thinking of drilling is not too bad in length. Some of the other ones are way too long. I doubt I could cut them off and have them look anything other than crappy. But I’ll take a look this weekend.
I had a leather punch that I used in the past. It was metal and had various size punches on a wheel and you just squeezed the handles. Very satisfying.
I’m a leather smith and just use a hole punch. A drill will work but could leave the hole a little ragged but if you’re careful you can clean that up with the exacto blade.
That’s a good compromise. I certainly would not want to try to dig a hole in a belt with an Xacto knife. My luck, it’d end up being a hole in my flesh! 
Ha! That’s been my experience. After performing workbench belt surgery, they looked pretty silly … so after losing 4" in waistline I eventually splurged on a new “skinny” belt.
Of course my scrunched up pants looking even sillier, so I also splurged on some replacements, giving the rest to charity.
In the absence of the correct tool (featured by Robin) you can flatten the point on a decent size nail and then use it as a punch.
I have also heated up an ice pick to cherry red and burned a hole through leather in a pinch.
I love this post 
Keto problems. Lololol
If I wore a belt I would need four extra holes today vs last summer, well one extra hole but four inches from the last one. Lol
A drill bit works fine in a good leather belt, when I was on the way down with my 100lbs loss years back I actually bought a punch at one point to start doing it right. That was always a great feeling, then it started getting weird because the belt wasn’t symmetrical anymore.
My trousers/pants got so baggy (they were all about 46” waist) I had to bin them and start again. I bought skinny 36” waist trousers and therefore no belt required. However, I am noticing that even these are not as snug as they were when I bought them, so I could have the belt problem soon! 
I think I still have a few of the old pairs in my closet and they need donating to the local charity shop: another job for the list. I did not get rid of them all using my lifelong experience that my weight always bounced back to “even fatter”. Not this time. Yay!
hung on to my big clothes a good year (maybe 2) before I decided I could safely donate them.
My closet is now monitored monthly at least to see what fits well. I am a habitual thrower-outer. If I don’t absolutely love it or (more importantly) use it… out it goes.
I believe my simplification of diet led to simplification of my immediate surroundings. My visiting brother called my home minimalist and made my day.
Getting rid of the “stuff’’ in our lives is freeing. Clean simple diet, clean simple life. It’s all good
