{"id":4013,"date":"2015-04-29T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:46:39","slug":"36597-saving-maternity-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36597-saving-maternity-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#97: Rnd 2 -Maternity Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4014\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Days-365-97-Maternity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4014\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Days-365-97-Maternity-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Click to enlarge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is there a statute of limitations for\u00a0hanging on to maternity clothes? The biblical stories of Sara or\u00a0Elizabeth notwithstanding, I\u2019m long past a possible pregnancy myself.\u00a0I did think, however, that perhaps some day our daughter or daughter-in-law might want these clothes. I\u2019ve finally resigned myself to letting go. What helped me make the decision was a person who needed them <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A young college student colleague revealed that she unexpectedly became pregnant. Finally, I realized these clothes were not doing anyone any good stored in my closet. I gave her 9 tops, 3 dresses, 3 shorts, and 2 pairs of slacks. Not all of these items are probably equally useful since I\u2019ve noticed that the style of maternity wear has evolved. The goal for many pregnant women no longer seems to be to hide one\u2019s \u201cbaby bump\u201d but rather to just be comfortable. Progress? Probably. What took me so long to accept the obvious? Sentimentality? Inertia? Stupidity? Forgetting I had them? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: Another\u2019s need can awaken generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I\u2019m still saving my wedding dress even though after 44 years of marriage I have no intention of needing it again. Sometimes sentiment wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a statute of limitations for\u00a0hanging on to maternity clothes? The biblical stories of Sara or\u00a0Elizabeth notwithstanding, I\u2019m long past a possible pregnancy myself.\u00a0I did think, however, that perhaps some day our daughter or daughter-in-law might want these clothes. I\u2019ve finally resigned myself to letting go. What helped me make the decision was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}