can't throw away!
#21
Thats me too ! lol
#22
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
That's what I decided to do - put it in boxes and store them - clearly marked, too.
Right now I cannot find my dresden template ANYWHERE and guess I'm going to have to buy a new one. I could have accidently dropped it into the wastepaper can without realizing it. It's driving me nuts !!!
Dodee
Tn.
Right now I cannot find my dresden template ANYWHERE and guess I'm going to have to buy a new one. I could have accidently dropped it into the wastepaper can without realizing it. It's driving me nuts !!!
Dodee
Tn.
#23
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 4,299
I'm a little like this, but I do an "okay" job controlling buying in the first place and that helps. Once I have something, I have it for keeps, but I've reached a point where I see a new ruler/tool and I don't feel like I have to own it.
Even fabric...I don't buy on a whim nearly as much as I did when I started out. I still do a little, but much, much less than when I was a newbie and was still 'stash building'. Now I have what I think is a good sized stash - big enough for variety but not overwhelmingly large. I have it stored so that I can see everything at once so I always have a pretty good idea about what's in there.
But the things I DO have...those are MINE and I'm not getting rid of them, even if I almost never use them.
Even fabric...I don't buy on a whim nearly as much as I did when I started out. I still do a little, but much, much less than when I was a newbie and was still 'stash building'. Now I have what I think is a good sized stash - big enough for variety but not overwhelmingly large. I have it stored so that I can see everything at once so I always have a pretty good idea about what's in there.
But the things I DO have...those are MINE and I'm not getting rid of them, even if I almost never use them.
#25
I am just as you are, made my self a 93 inches tall and 48 inches wide to put all my Quilting books and magazines, Crochet books and magazines, and also Craft books and magazines last but not least my Cook books and magazines. I collect them so I had to make a large book case. It also holds one of older sewing machines. I have 13 sewing machines also, I will not part with any of them. I did gave a way the first one I ever bought brand new a White brand to my husbands Aunt by marriage she was tickles pink so to speak.
#28
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 7,312
I decluttered last year and got rid of so much, especially craft items that I thought I would get into and then never did. I figured someone else could use them. I sent 2 big USPS boxes of beads, etc., to my cousin who does crafts for extra money. Some I gave to my great niece's school art teacher. Duplicates of quilting items went to my niece or friends.
Today, when I look around my sewing room I think, now where did all THIS stuff come from? Must be those rabbits again!
Today, when I look around my sewing room I think, now where did all THIS stuff come from? Must be those rabbits again!
#29
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 379
I like Gramie bus idea, I have a huge box of throw outs but just can't do the throw out, we use to be able to give throw outs to people who run quilting programs in the Women's prisons ( they had to aquire good reports to be able to go to the sewing session,of course they were not allowed scissors or rotary cutters, but these women made some lovely quilts.)
I have not seen anyone collecting for this cause for a while ,how quickly they throw out bin grows
I have not seen anyone collecting for this cause for a while ,how quickly they throw out bin grows
#30
I find the best time to declutter anything is when I'm angry! Clothing, kitchen items, sewing things I know I'll never use... out they go. I tend, however, to be an even-tempered person, so I don't do it very often.
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