Some people just need to shop. I think a stash is out of hand if you keep buying fabric, but not using any. If you can't get to the sewing machine to sew because of all the clutter, it is out of hand. Our rooms get messy but we try to clean them up between projects. As we get older and we are losing our friends to death, it makes us feel the need to have "stuff" close by. The fabric becomes our "friend". The same as animal hoarders, the animals become their "friends". That is what is so great about this board, we have friends here, so hopefully we don't lose touch with reality. I look back at my mother and how she had isolated herself from everyone. She wasn't a hoarder, except that she WOULDN'T spend her money. She was afraid she would live to 108 and run out of money and have to live with her children.