{"id":4368,"date":"2016-01-15T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2016-09-30T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T01:50:32","slug":"365115-emptying-our-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365115-emptying-our-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#115: Emptying Our Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last blog<\/a> talked about \u201cThe Beauty of Empty\u201d and how helpful it is to empty out a space to start the pruning process. Now it\u2019s time to start with myself (and my husband).<\/p>\n

\"Days<\/a>\"DaysSince my first round of pruning our clothes closet in 2010, I\u2019ve slowly been passing clothes on that I seldom wear, but I never actually emptied it out. This time I took my own advice and started from ground zero. The first photo shows the left\u00a0half of our closet with all my suits, skirts, pants, dresses, and blouses removed.<\/p>\n

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I found 7 items I\u2019m willing to give away and 3 maybes:
\n3 dresses (1 elegant and 2 serviceable)
\n3 skirts
\n1 cultural\u00a0outfit from Indonesia; nice but not many opportunities to wear it.<\/p>\n

Then I put everything else back. I feel better.<\/p>\n

Then I turned to my husband… When I give talks, often someone will say, \u201cI\u2019m fine with giving stuff away, but my spouse or kids are the problem.\u201d My usual response is \u201cInvite others, but do your own thing. Convincing\/cajoling others to join you can strain your relationship.” BUT, I had noticed that our clothes would have more room to \u201cbreathe\u201d if Jim would also prune his half of the closet. He resisted, quoting me back to myself. He\u2019d do it when HE was ready. \"Days<\/a><\/p>\n

Ever the politician, however, he offered me a deal. He would go through his half of the closet IF I would refurbish his old toy pinball machine that he had as a child. I took it as a challenge, spent some time fussing with it, and, with the help of the friendly staff at our corner hardware store, met his request.<\/p>\n

Being an honest fellow, Jim dutifully went through his clothes and chose to give away some of his stuff. He decided that some clothes were not good enough to give away so he threw away (or I made rags out of) some other things.\u00a0I moved his rarely used robe to the guest bedroom in case a modest guest wanted to use it to get to the shower on another floor.<\/p>\n

\"Days<\/a>\"Days<\/a>Throw\u00a0Aways<\/span>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Give\u00a0Aways<\/span>:
\n2 pairs of shorts \u00a0 \u00a0 7 polo shirts
\n1 pair of jeans \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09 dress shirts
\n2 sweatshirts \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0hiking boots
\n4 T-shirts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My last blog talked about \u201cThe Beauty of Empty\u201d and how helpful it is to empty out a space to start the pruning process. Now it\u2019s time to start with myself (and my husband). Since my first round of pruning our clothes closet in 2010, I\u2019ve slowly been passing clothes on that I seldom wear, […]<\/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":[13,20],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-clothes","tag-others-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","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=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}