{"id":741,"date":"2025-09-16T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:04:12","slug":"waist-not-want-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Waist Not, Want Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently went on a short binge of YouTube videos of tidying house and life, and it motivated me to start with something small, which is my wardrobe. Also it was the easiest as I already had a lot of shirts that almost can&#8217;t fit me anymore. I know this because I was reminded quite often by my wife, that these shirts were bought at least 6 years ago. Some were even older than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to wear shirts with slim-fit fittings and size &#8216;S&#8217;. So were my pants, with the waist size smaller than my age. Unfortunately this was no longer true but I still kept the ones that are getting a bit tight. Only today I come to accept that even if don&#8217;t grow a paunch, I would never fit into these pants. Hence with acceptance and relieve, I packed up these clothes and saying goodbye to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What also helped was from this Youtube videos, it mentioned how by giving away, I gain more. More space. More flexibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So people, waist not, want not. Apologies on the pun \ud83e\udd2d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently went on a short binge of YouTube videos of tidying house and life, and it motivated me to start with something small, which is my wardrobe. Also it was the easiest as I already had a lot of shirts that almost can&#8217;t fit me anymore. I know this because I was reminded quite often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[128,102,127],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-giving","tag-peace","tag-self-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}