Good ideas! Every one!

The way I justify this "hording" is that I have sewing areas on three levels of my home, plus my travel supplies, plus classroom supplies for my 4-H students. Trouble is, as a project gets moved to a different location, so do associated tools. Then I have migrating supplies. I blame it on the geese.

Youre just stocked up, lol. Nothing wrong with that!

I dont have many duplicates as I have only been quilting for about a year. You guys have a lot of great suggestions. I have all my notions out where I can see them. This makes me use them more often as well.

I do find myself buying some things in multiples. I guess I overestimate on what I acually need such as threads. I have a large extra stash.

I understand just where your coming from, thus I am now try to organize all of my sewing supplies. I keep finding more and more, so right now I am putting like items in boxes just to figure out what all I have :D

I try and buy on sale and stay stocked up also.

Okay, I am invited to clean out a women's sewing room of her material and quilts, and maybe finish some she started, I need
help to hold back from hoarding, oh my, I am bringing my
husband, but he is a hoarder too, I think I'm going to be in
trouble.

Oh no i couldn't bear to part with any of it you never know when it will all come in handy lol

Oh dear.

I still have 10 blades that I have not used yet but they were reasonably priced so I bought 12 and gave my daughter 2 to start her quilting. I keep buying cottons and needles every time I go to my LQS for when I don't have the money when they are needed. I am getting up a small collection now too.

You are so close to the exact amount I have , it`s scary.

I must have sixteen pair of sissors. I just keep buying them. weird, huh?

I do the same thing. Somehow, I usually end up using the things...sometime.

You could put some up here for sale to us newbies who dont have much. Like me.. lol

No matter how much I buy...seems like I am always missing something. Today it's black thread...I want to FMQ my shadow blocks with black. The other think I never have, no matter how many times I buy...its hand sewing needles. No idea where they all disappear to. Oh...and why I have never thought to use my coupons on new blades for my rotarty cutter...will be doing that too..

...what would we do without our purse....from lipstick, comb....pacifiers.....lollipops, gum......now lists of what we have/have not.....our life is on our purse!

I always think that there will be lean times when I won't be able to buy some things and having bought them on sale makes so much more sense. I don't want to run out of the things I use on a regular basis. I do resist buying things that are not on sale so I think that counts for something! I say if you're having fun and no one gets hurt in the process, go for it!!!

I was just telling DH this morning that I think I am a fabric Whore! I have to start using some of this before I buy anymore or I'm gonna have to move out of my room. Running out of space. :D

Wow, this post made me curious of my own "hoard". I've only been quilting since April, but I have two 13-gallon tubs of fabric (pre-cuts and yardage), a whole shelf of magazines and books, and a 13-gallon tub of notions, rulers, scissors, etc. Just today I got my order of threads from Connecting Threads... So now I've got a dozen or so spools of thread. Add that to the mix... Plus the TWO huge orders I have coming from Missouri Star and the gigantic haul I got from Joann's last night.... Couldn't pass up the good deals.

Not only have I cut myself off from shopping, but I have sentenced myself to my sewing room to get busy!! I'm not a "stash" buyer (yet), so everything in my hoard is spoken for... Upcoming projects on my massive "To Do" list.

I hear ya on the rotary blades and needles. I stockpile those when they're on sale because I know they don't expire :-)

Seeing the price of the 5-pack of Olfa blades at Joann's yesterday makes me wish I had bought 10 packs when this thread was started a few years ago!