No More Quilting Purchases!!!
07-25-2011, 01:12 PM
#31
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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I'm with the cash only camp. Each month I put my quilting budget in the envelope and when it is gone it's gone. Ideally, you don't spend money from other envelopes on quilting (I have been guilty of taking from the entertainment budget).....hmmmm quilting counts as entertainment right?
It also helps to only buy what you need for the project at hand. I don't like using july money on a project that I'm not going to start until the fall. Remember their will always be another sale.
It also helps to only buy what you need for the project at hand. I don't like using july money on a project that I'm not going to start until the fall. Remember their will always be another sale.
07-25-2011, 01:15 PM
#32
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 17,068
The online sales are a killer for me!!! In this heat I'm content to stay home but getting online......... and on top of it everyone on the board tells me where the latest sale is, shame on all of you!!! LOL :D
07-25-2011, 01:18 PM
#33
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 403
I am cutting down on my fabric buying. I have made recently two lap quilts for my good friends, and three quilts for Linus. I am in the process of cutting out another lap quilt for an 80th birthday present. ALL OF THIS OUT OF MY STASH. I have not had to buy batting or backing so far, but now I have run out of batting. I,and a friend are keeping a book on what we spend this year on our quilting hobby So this is making me think first as to whether I need it or not, before I purchase.
07-25-2011, 01:22 PM
#35
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Phoenix, AZ.
Posts: 1,342
I made myself promise not to buy any more fabric because I am saving for a new machine. And if I want the machine, I cannot buy more fabric to sit around and take up space. So...I am trying. However, its really hard when all of you post such wonderful fabrics for sale !!!!!!!!!!! These boards are my worse downfall, lol.
But I love them.
But I love them.
07-25-2011, 01:23 PM
#36
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: northwest Ohio
Posts: 1,202
Originally Posted by Glassquilt
I do not look at adds.
I do not open the emails.
I do not go near any fabric.
I eat a lot of chocolate.
I do not open the emails.
I do not go near any fabric.
I eat a lot of chocolate.
I have really cut down what I'm buying since prices are so insane. I absolutely refuse to buy unless the price is less than $5/yard for quilt shop quality. That limits my buying a lot!
I like your suggestions, though. I'm no longer going to save any JF coupons or even look at the flyers. I think I'll unsubscribe from their mailing list.
I go to a retreat twice a year sponsored by a nearby quilt shop and what I've been doing is limiting what I can spend at the retreat to the change we save at our house. That keeps me in check when everyone else is going crazy during our special shopping hours.
07-25-2011, 01:29 PM
#37
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,119
If you can afford it, and it makes you happy, then by all means happy shopping...Being a breast cancer survivor, I'm very much in tune with that saying "we only go around once"....Soooooo.....Shop til you "quilt"......:)
San
San
07-25-2011, 01:31 PM
#38
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Mead, WA
Posts: 598
Originally Posted by MellieKQuilter
HELP!!! I am SOOOOOOO over budget in my quilting related purchases this month, and my trip to Joann's sure didnt help. (but I did get camo fabric for the bbq apron for my bf, fabric to make a purse, and interfacing for three purses, fabric for a four patch posey and materials for my WIP Dresden Plate Block quilt, and lots of thread and some quilt clamps).
My question to you is how do you stop!! I see something that I just have to have, since who knows if it will be there later! I just need to stop LOOKING. :) Which is IMPOSSIBLE. :):)
Any thoughts QB friends?
My question to you is how do you stop!! I see something that I just have to have, since who knows if it will be there later! I just need to stop LOOKING. :) Which is IMPOSSIBLE. :):)
Any thoughts QB friends?
07-25-2011, 01:32 PM
#39
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Behind my sewing machine
Posts: 7,202
One thing that I have started doing is use one of the 50 percent off coupon if I go to Joannes...I only buy one thing....it really has helped! I try not to buy on line...though I have a few time on Keepsakes quilt shop. But really...I do not need anymore fabric....My closet it full.
07-25-2011, 01:37 PM
#40
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Mead, WA
Posts: 598
I thought fabric prices were high! However, yesterday I bought a beef roast and it cost $5.49 a lb...and that was the cheaper price.....even their pork chops were $4.79 a pound. Where have I been? We finally used up the roast we bought on sale and froze.....it was $1.99 a lb.....pork chops frozen, one pkg left, was $2.49 lb. Gotta tighten our belts!!!! With the drought and cattle going to market, do you think beef prices will go down?
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