{"id":2071,"date":"2016-04-30T20:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T01:03:13","slug":"the-great-re-cycle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"The Great Re-Cycle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Everyone loves a bargain. Being\u00a0a cheap bastard, \u00a0I am particularly susceptible to the lure of second-hand clothing stores. Over the years I&#8217;ve gotten great deals on suits at places like Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Savers. Twenty bucks for a suit, another $25 for tailoring and I&#8217;m rocking a suit that looks great and I never would have paid for brand new.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cropped-20160417_072646-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2061\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cropped-20160417_072646-1-300x77.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-20160417_072646-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cropped-20160417_072646-1-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cropped-20160417_072646-1-768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cropped-20160417_072646-1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">I was in a second hand store when I had the epiphany. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">The shop was in an former old-time department store on a once thriving Main Street.\u00a0F<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">ar in the rear of the store, there was a shelf that ran the length of the back wall, filled with old boots on it, side by side. Cowboy boots, biker boots, work boots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">And at that moment it dawned on me : every pair of boots probably corresponded to a guy who passed away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">I realized\u00a0if I suddenly died,\u00a0\u00a0all my clothes would wind up in a place like that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">The great re-cycle of life of life I suppose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><em>copyright 2016 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves a bargain. Being\u00a0a cheap bastard, \u00a0I am particularly susceptible to the lure of second-hand clothing stores. 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