{"id":1229,"date":"2010-12-15T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:55:56","slug":"extra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/extra-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t\u2019 think it\u2019s fair to count our kids\u2019 elementary and high school trophies and plaques as things to give away since they are of no use to anyone else. Still, I counted 22 trophies and 30 award plaques stored in a cedar chest that could be put to better use. (Trophies take up a lot of space and what good are they if you aren\u2019t displaying them. Yet to display them seems egotistical\u2013 after all they\u2019re not Oscars or Heisman trophies.) I was surprised to find not only our kids\u2019 trophies but also several from Jim\u2019s and my youth. Wait, it gets better. I even found one trophy that Jim\u2019s long deceased parents won in a \u201cGrandparents Golf Tournament.\u201d Being somewhat sentimental, I\u2019m not quite ready to get rid of ALL the trophies so I aimed for half and only kept the most prestigious. I ended up with 10 trophies and 2 plaques.<\/p>\n

Now there is the bigger problem. Who do I give these to? I called our kids\u2019 high school and they never called back. I called a couple trophy stores and they said they had no use for them. One store said that sometimes the YMCA or a Scout troop could repurpose them. I thought of putting them in my catch all basket for visiting kids to pick a treat from \u2013 but they\u2019re way too big and cumbersome. I\u2019ve taken the photo for posterity. Anybody know who to give these to? I\u2019d hate to just pitch them.
\nPS: I just found some websites that have suggestions for what to do with old trophies:<\/p>\n

How to Dispose of 8 odd, seemingly difficult to recycle items<\/span>\u00a0 See #8<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/11134\/What-to-do-with-your-old-childhood-trophies<\/span><\/a>
\nHow to Get Rid of Old Trophies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t\u2019 think it\u2019s fair to count our kids\u2019 elementary and high school trophies and plaques as things to give away since they are of no use to anyone else. Still, I counted 22 trophies and 30 award plaques stored in a cedar chest that could be put to better use. (Trophies take up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38],"tags":[27,6],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","category-the-process","tag-memorabilia","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}