Originally Posted by
MeadowMist
I have well over 200 crafting books/magazines in my stash and it's definitely time to declutter. The majority are quilting related but there are also several in other of my interests, such as knitting, painting.
With our cold wintry weather, it's a good day to sort through these and decide what to give away. Yet after going through 3/4's of my pile I've only found 5 that I'm willing to let go of and most of those are pamphlet sized so my pile really isn't much smaller.
Any hints on how to let go of some of this? Does anyone else hold on to things you really don't need but you think someday you will? Realistically, 99.9% of the patterns in these I will never make or use yet I can't help but to hold on because in there is the .1% of them that I will use. Most of them have things I want to make but between time and money I know I just will never get to it. And some magazines I just like to look at.
I've been going through quilting and knitting books, made a pile of those I realistically know I will never use again, and offered them to my quilt group. I know that one day my kids will have to empty out my house -- that's a horrific enough task without them also having to wade through extra extraneous stuff. I'm trying to make things as easy as possible for my kids. When my sister and I emptied out our parents' house it was a grueling task, even though my mom was very neat and organized and was not one to keep a lot of stuff.