{"id":2914,"date":"2013-08-15T17:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T21:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:32:43","slug":"36556-round-2-photo-prompts-give-aways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36556-round-2-photo-prompts-give-aways\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#56: Rnd 2 -Photo of Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Total<\/a>

Total give aways
Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A magazine, Alive<\/i>, asked to do an article about my year of giving away and wanted to do a photo. Unfortunately it\u2019s hard to take a photo of what\u2019s no longer in our home. I wondered if we would need to \u201cstage\u201d it to suggest the kinds of things that I gave away but no longer had. Since I had a month to consider this, I put a hold on things I would have normally passed on to others and saved them for the photo. Voila! I was surprised at how many additional things I had collected, just waiting to be given away. The night before the photo I did a new sweep of my clothes closet and hung those items in our basement and added these to the other items I had collected.<\/p>\n

This has taught me several things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I\u2019ve become accustomed to putting stuff in a corner just waiting to collect enough to warrant a give away trip. A habit like this does not end in a year.<\/li>\n
  2. Even after two sweeps through my clothes closet, there were still clothes that were not painful to give away. In fact, I can already see that given a little more grieving time, there are even more items that it would not hurt me to lose. If this is true for a person like me who is not particularly a slave to fashion (trust me my daughter will attest to that :-?) then there are a lot more clothes waiting for someone to wear them.<\/li>\n
  3. It is a bit embarrassing that I still have so many things to give away. I\u2019m far from done, but sometimes it takes time to be willing to part with clothing I like but hardly ever wear.<\/li>\n
  4. It helps that I work at home and the kids are sprung. The active parenting phase of life requires saving a bit more stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"Just<\/a>

    Just the clothes<\/p><\/div>\n

    I\u2019ll comment on the other things I collected for this photo in future blog entries but for this week I\u2019ll just focus on the clothes:<\/p>\n

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    • 2 dresses<\/li>\n
    • 1 suit<\/li>\n
    • 1 skirt<\/li>\n
    • 2 pairs of slacks<\/li>\n
    • 2 blouses<\/li>\n
    • 4 jackets<\/li>\n
    • 1 white beach cover up that I thought I could wear at a resort of if I ever went on a cruise. Seeing as I\u2019ve never been on a cruise and don\u2019t intend to go on one, it was only fulfilling a fantasy hanging in my closet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Question: Are you in the stage of life of accumulating clothes for work or in a position where \u201cprofessional attire\u201d is no longer important? How much of a difference does it make in what clothing you buy and what you keep in your closet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      A magazine, Alive, asked to do an article about my year of giving away and wanted to do a photo. Unfortunately it\u2019s hard to take a photo of what\u2019s no longer in our home. I wondered if we would need to \u201cstage\u201d it to suggest the kinds of things that I gave away but no […]<\/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":[13],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-clothes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","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=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}