{"id":1939,"date":"2012-01-15T02:35:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2014-09-28T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T12:03:05","slug":"36522-recycling-others-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36522-recycling-others-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#22: Recycling Other\u2019s Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1940\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Days-365+22-misc-others-stuff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1940\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1940\" title=\"Days 365+22 misc others stuff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Days-365+22-misc-others-stuff-e1326655283885-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Especially note brown wig I &quot;bought&quot; at a charity auction<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently I have found myself the recipient of other people\u2019s stuff. Some of this may be due to the fact that I have developed a bit of a reputation as a \u201cgo to\u201d person for those who are trying to prune their wardrobes and homes of extra stuff. Other\u2019s know I am frugal and don\u2019t buy much so they figure I probably need more stuff. And then there are always the \u201cduty\u201d gifts that people give around Christmas and birthdays \u2013 not stuff I really need or want, but someone\u2019s trying to say they care about me by giving a gift. This increased supply of stuff raises several questions:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Can I count the stuff that other people give me to pass on, as my generosity? <em>After all, who\u2019s counting the 9 items in the picture? \ud83d\ude15 (Of course I did count it enough to make it the focus of this blog.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Is it being ungrateful or miserly to \u201cregift\u201d something I don\u2019t want to another person or thrift store?\u00a0<em> I\u2019ve decided that regifting is simply a way of sharing the wealth, as long as you are careful not to give it back to the original giver (unless it\u2019s one of those annual joke regifts).<\/em> How do you feel about regifting?<\/li>\n<li>Is it fair or child abuse (or at least insensitive parenting) to give away your adult children&#8217;s stuff? <em>Recycling our kid\u2019s stuff continues to be a problem for me. I made a futile attempt to get our son, who currently lives in Singapore, to allow me to give away some of his books, tapes, and CDs when he was visiting over Christmas. Alas, he said, \u201cNo way.\u201d Although I could have made it an ultimatum and said, \u201cAnything you don\u2019t specify as \u201ca treasure\u201d is going to go to a worthy music store,\u201d I didn\u2019t have the heart to follow through on this advice I give to others. Maybe next year\u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have found myself the recipient of other people\u2019s stuff. Some of this may be due to the fact that I have developed a bit of a reputation as a \u201cgo to\u201d person for those who are trying to prune their wardrobes and homes of extra stuff. Other\u2019s know I am frugal and don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-others-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}