{"id":1271,"date":"2012-05-08T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T20:48:20","slug":"take-something-leave-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Take Something, Leave Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was flipping through pictures on my cell phone and found this one that I took of the Take Something Leave Something table at Shuttlebirds. \u00c2\u00a0It was a great success. \u00c2\u00a0I was very happy to get rid of a lot of Royal brand thread that I’m not going to use anymore and picked up a bunch of other stuff that I will use.<\/p>\n

For the last 5 or 6 years I’ve been slowly paring down stuff by setting a rule that if I buy (or get without spending money) 2 things I have to get rid of (either by using up or giving away) 3 things. \u00c2\u00a0By “things” I mean thread, yarn, books, cds and clothing interchangeably. \u00c2\u00a0I keep a little tally going on my phone and this is the first year I’ve left Shuttlebirds “positive” (meaning I could have brought more home) despite the fact that I had gone there in the negative.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit OCD, I know, but it’s worked really well for me over the last few years. \u00c2\u00a0It’s never really stopped me from buying anything I want (that’s not really the point), but it helps me to stay on top of stuff by motivating me to clean things out and get rid of things I know I’m not going to use in the future. \u00c2\u00a0My thread stash has definitely grown over the last few years, but I have gotten rid of almost all my yarn (except for some for tatting) as it became clear that I have very little interest in picking up crocheting again, and I have cleared out at least a bookshelf or so of books and cds.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the best part about the table was that there wasn’t a bunch of stuff at the end that I got stuck with. \u00c2\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00c2\u00a0The second day we put out a donation bowl so that people could take something and leave a donation for Shuttlebirds. \u00c2\u00a0I think that was a good way to do it. \u00c2\u00a0The first day things needed to be replaced, but the second day you could leave money for Shuttlebirds. \u00c2\u00a0I got the word out about it fairly late, but hopefully this was a good start to getting the word around. \u00c2\u00a0I’m looking forward to seeing what appears on the table next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was flipping through pictures on my cell phone and found this one that I took of the Take Something Leave Something table at Shuttlebirds. \u00c2\u00a0It was a great success. \u00c2\u00a0I was very happy to get rid of a lot of Royal brand thread that I’m not going to use anymore and picked up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shuttlebirds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}