Too funny ;-) He'll get over it, everyone needs a hobby :thumbup:

I am not married, I do own a largish stash...I buy without guilt nor do I have to justify my spending to anyone.....however I know that is not everyone. So if I owned a fabric store I would call it the the Grocery Store with fabric lines called. Quarta Milk+ whites and creams, Pounda Meat=browns and reds, Heada Lettuce= mixed greens, Baga Fruit=bright colors and well you get the picture. So the scenario goes like this
Wife comes in with several large bags of fabric and stows them away.
Husband "Where ya been?"
Wife "Oh the Grocery Store."
Husband "What cha get?"
Wife "Well a pounda meat, a Quarta Milk, a Heada Lettuce and a Baga Fruit.
Husband "Sounds great, what's for dinner?"
Wife "Oh honey we have both had such a busy day, let's go out to eat."
Can you see it???

REPLY TO ALL:

my husband can't see my stash as he is in the cemetary. just be glad your husband is alive no matter what he says.

I collect fabric just because I love fabric! I love colors, textures, and the possiblities! I can't possibly live long enough to use all my fabric but I tell my relatives that quilt, that it is their inheritance!

Amen to that! Fabric and books make me happy!

Let's see.....I bet you bought your stash...at least most of it when it was $4.50 or less per yard. Fabric is now $9.50-$10.50 per yard. That is 100% profit on investment. Tell him you can sell it anytime for double what you paid....and if you make quilts and sell them for thousands....you are defintely ahead of the game.....
my story and I'm sticking to it. Besides I won't be paying $10.50 a yard after I retire..
D in TX

I just say that this keeps me off the streets and outa the bars.

Where can I see the video about hiding your stash?

Ladies, I just compare all my fabric, threads, templates,etc.to all the his "man" tools - wood tools, outside tools, all his various sizes of nails, grades of sandpaper, scrap pieces of wood and metal--- do you get the the idea? What it boils down to is, he has his toys, and I have mine. He is in the garage, and I am in my sewing room, and we live happily ever after. Amen PS -- his grandmother taught me how to quilt. She passed at the young age of 90 -- she was always quilting and sewing -- and that was 32 years ago. (Love this forum -- we must have all come from the same mold.)

He sounds like mine...Retiring end of next month and well, a girl gota do what ever works....I just say I have had that for a long time...I stopped using my credit card...I balance the ck book so I just get cash here and there and that is what I use....