{"id":2778,"date":"2007-08-13T09:39:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2007-08-13T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T15:39:50","slug":"give-that-clothing-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/give-that-clothing-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Give that clothing away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you&#8217;ve got a closet full of clothes that don&#8217;t get worn very often. I know I do. I have a top shelf full of t-shirts from college days and back when I was a computer tech and everyone and their mother gave away free promotional t-shirts for their product.<br \/>\nA wise rule of thumb to remember when you&#8217;re trying to declutter (so say the experts) is to get rid of anything you haven&#8217;t used in six months to a year.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a handy way to figure that out with your clothing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2007\/08\/13\/hanger-trick\/\">Merlin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/143676413\/mark-what-clothing-you-havent-worn-with-hangers-288784.php\">Lifehacker<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, turn the hangers of all your clothing away from you, and set a calendar reminder to go off in 6 or 12 months. Then when your n months have passed, and your calendar reminds you that it&#8217;s time, open your closet and remove every piece of clothing on a backward hanger; the chances are good you can give it away without the slightest pain, because you just clearly demonstrated that you don&#8217;t wear it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you&#8217;re ready to give those clothes away &#8211; there are plenty of places to donate them to, or you may be able to find a second-hand store that will actually buy them from you. Of if you have the spare time, you can sell them on E-bay or Craigslist and then give that money to charity ;-).<br \/>\nFolks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\">our church<\/a> are always looking for clothes, coats and blankets to take to the Austin Street Shelter and other homeless areas in Downtown Dallas &#8211; so if nothing else, let us know and we&#8217;ll be sure they get in the hands of those in need.<br \/>\nAnd speaking of, I think it&#8217;s time I give my clothes another look as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you&#8217;ve got a closet full of clothes that don&#8217;t get worn very often. I know I do. I have a top shelf full of t-shirts from college days and back when I was a computer tech and everyone and their mother gave away free promotional t-shirts for their product. A wise rule of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/give-that-clothing-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give that clothing away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-life-hacks","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-IO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}