{"id":3265,"date":"2014-06-15T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:45:02","slug":"36572-2-for-1-napkins-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36572-2-for-1-napkins-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#72: 2 for 1 Napkins &#038; Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3266\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Days-365+72-fabric.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3266\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Days-365+72-fabric-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Some of my spare fabric\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of my spare fabric<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Occasionally the heavens align and other people help me lighten my mood and my stuff. That\u2019s what happened recently when I was in a conversation with a friend, her daughter, and her fianc\u00e9. As the wedding\u00a0day approached the bride and groom said they were trying to plan a tasteful but simple celebration. One step was to rent cloth napkins and table cloths for the reception. Hmmm, I had just pruned my tablecloth and napkin drawer several weeks before and had not yet found a recipient. Perfect! I had about 100 napkins I could give them. It was a win\/win situation. They got cloth napkins and I got to know my napkins would be useful to someone else. It made both of us happy.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more. As the conversation continued, I explained how I was giving things away and had not yet gone through my cabinet of fabric from when I used to sew more regularly. Another friend who is a quilter and was teaching the bride how to quilt said, \u201cWe could use your spare fabric.\u201d Yea! Not only do I get rid of fabric that I don\u2019t need anymore, it\u2019s going to a good cause, not just into the trash. Everybody wins.<\/p>\n<p>One can\u2019t always count on fortuitous situations like this, but when a community of folk share a similar a commitment to simplifying their lives or minimizing their impact on the environment, it increases the odds of serendipitous connections. Sure, they may have been able to come up with napkins and fabric through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freecycle.org\/\">Freecycle<\/a>, yard sales, or Ebay, but isn\u2019t it nice when people of like mind simply share their minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally the heavens align and other people help me lighten my mood and my stuff. That\u2019s what happened recently when I was in a conversation with a friend, her daughter, and her fianc\u00e9. As the wedding\u00a0day approached the bride and groom said they were trying to plan a tasteful but simple celebration. One step was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[17,6],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-fun","tag-musings","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}