{"id":25498,"date":"2026-11-04T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=25498"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:21:35","slug":"for-40-christmases-my-mil-gave-her-daughters-jewelry-and-me-plum-jam-then-i-found-a-number-on-the-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=25498","title":{"rendered":"For 40 Christmases, My MIL Gave Her Daughters Jewelry and Me Plum Jam. Then I Found a Number on the Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Mother-in-Law Gave Me Jam for 40 Years\u2014Then I Discovered What She\u2019d Hidden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every Christmas, Ruth gave her daughters jewelry and me a numbered jar of plum jam.<\/p>\n<p>They laughed. I thanked her\u2014and saved every jar.<\/p>\n<p>After she died, I received jar number 40. It felt unusually heavy, so I checked the others.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath their lids were savings bonds and bank receipts worth over $48,000.<\/p>\n<p>The final jar held a letter revealing she\u2019d also left me her farmhouse and 160 acres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know how to say I loved you,\u201d Ruth wrote. \u201cSo I said it forty times, in a jar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her daughters eventually apologized. On my next birthday, they brought me an empty jar.<\/p>\n<p>Its lid read: <strong>41.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mother-in-Law Gave Me Jam for 40 Years\u2014Then I Discovered What She\u2019d Hidden Every Christmas, Ruth gave her daughters jewelry and me a numbered jar of plum jam. They laughed. I thanked her\u2014and saved every jar. After she died, I received jar number 40. It felt unusually heavy, so I checked the others. Beneath their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25500,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions\/25500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}