{"id":3740,"date":"2011-01-23T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-73-assorted-jewelry-that-only-a-kindergarten-teacher-would-wear-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3740","title":{"rendered":"Day 73 &#8211; Assorted &#8220;Jewelry&#8221; that Only a Kindergarten Teacher Would Wear (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa has been working on cleaning up the master bedroom and then doing little things to help &#8220;stage&#8221; it.\u00a0 I asked her if she had thrown or given anything away during the day and she said, &#8220;Oh yes&#8230; I just threw away a whole bunch of jewelry.&#8221; &#8220;You threw away JEWELRY??&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjlKGDy2TE05Idk-vkC6Df_1klOib2mpwT4A4tWAGxyUG3YbKpxqnOZePjzk9ng0lq5qkO_eFZIxmqW09EaeGHlj9xBvVZ90vP40j2tWHzVne-DTaNE0hnCn-1izES_RlTOAeeYFh2s1w8\/s200\/Picture+7.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then she showed me the &#8220;jewelry&#8221; in question.\u00a0 It was an assortment of lapel pins and necklaces.\u00a0 Most of the pins said something like &#8220;Best Teacher&#8221; or the like.\u00a0 Some were homemade &#8211; perhaps by a kindergartener, from the looks of them.\u00a0 And most of the &#8220;jewelry&#8221; was big and gaudy &#8211; the sort of thing only a kindergarten teacher would wear &#8211; and Melissa admitted to wearing all of it in the past.\u00a0  I&#8217;m sure each was a very special gift at the time, but now it&#8217;s clutter and it gets thrown.\u00a0 I suggested she take some of it to Goodwill and Melissa replied, &#8220;What?\u00a0 And risk inflicting some other teacher with it?&#8221; And I almost forgot another Throw that day &#8211; the most &#8220;dangerous&#8221; Throw so far.\u00a0 We threw away two key chains loaded with keys.\u00a0 Couldn&#8217;t identify a single lock any of them opened!\u00a0 But my fear is that in the process of packing and moving, we will discover some chest or locked suitcase and will then be smacking our heads in regret&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa has been working on cleaning up the master bedroom and then doing little things to help &#8220;stage&#8221; it.\u00a0 I asked her if she had thrown or given anything away during the day and she said, &#8220;Oh yes&#8230; I just threw away a whole bunch of jewelry.&#8221; &#8220;You threw away JEWELRY??&#8221; Then she showed me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}