Went shopping on thousandsofbolts.com. That's all I need to say.... I even told my husband about it. Silly me.

So, my question is, what is the most you have spent on one shopping trip/spree and did you try to hide the receipts (lol)?

:lol: :lol:

i don't hide receipts. i just kiss him a lot to make up for it!

so . . . how much did you spend?

I think the most I ever spent in one stop was about $128. But I am sure there has been sprees that totaled more. I have never hidden the receipt, but maybe "forgot" to mention it before! :wink: DH never says much about what I spend,(Thank Goodness), He went to a shop with me before to buy fabric for a baby quilt for one of his co-workers and it totaled over $80, so he knows what it costs!

So how much did you spend?

I always tell JB when he comes through the door from work..."I bought fabric today and it cost..." at which point he says "It's ok baby, I don't care what you spent, you like doing fabric stuff." Did I mention how much I love JB :lol:

My hubbie is the same way. He'll ask "Have we paid the utilities and house note?" Then he'll say, I don't care what you spend. You enjoy it.
I spent $107 with my grandnieces today trying to give them the "quilting bug." We are making rag quilts together, putting together 12" squares, 5x5. They sure were excited today when I left them. They are hoping to have 6 sandwiches sewn together by tomorrow. We are hand sewing because that's what I do.

You weren't BAD, exactly...just overstimulated to buy.
We want to see pictures...

My husband has no idea what I spend on my hobbies. I never mention what I have spent in the past month or year and he never asks. Then again, I don't have a clue what he spends on his golf, football lotteries, camping with the guys, etc. Works for us.

And the total $$$$$ is???????? lol
Drum roll please.

I guess I am really bad. I have been to a quilt show where I spent over $300 in one day-and that was just fabric, patterns, books etc at the show. I was also spending the night in a hotel, eating out, paying for gas to get there and back, etc. My DH does not care how much I spend and he never asks. I am just really lucky, I guess :lol:

My husband gave me $400 in gift certificates to a fabric shop for Christmas. I spent about half of it at the post-Christmas sale then looked at the enormous pile of fabric and thought uh-oh, that's going to fill up my stash box. So I bought another box. And have been dribbling away the rest of the certificates adding highlights to what I splurged on. Shopping for fabric is just plain FUN.

Almost a year ago when I started quilting I spent almost $200.00 buying a lot of supplies and a couple yard of fabric. Then I spent $116.00 on my hand quilt frame just after Christmas.

Kyia

Okay You are killing us...how much did you spend?????? :shock:

Ok, I spent around $100..but its for a special aunt's 25th anniversary and it also gives me much enjoyment to work on. So its not only a gift but a past-time. The "bad" part is that I want to remodel our garage into a family room and we're putting a pool and surrounding patio in. My dh didn't say much. I just got the "you want all this stuff done and there you go spending $100 on fabric" speach. I just remind him of all the hunting and fishing accesories that he gets, not to mention licenses, and it usually ends there. I know I can talk him around to just about anything I want. Hence, the pool and family room. lol

OK I got You beat. I went on a bus trip to the Cape Cod. last year with my guild. I spent over $500 and never told my husban and he never asked me about it. I was also the one who spent the most on that trip.

I have spent up to $300. on one shopping spree. Especially when I went to Paducah whichi is not hard to do. Sometimes my DH says "Is that all you bought" gotta love him. LOL

I've gone crazy on this find the bunny shop hop.
I don't know my total, but it is well over $100. I keep buying sale fabric and super buys. I will post pix after I get the stuff in the mail.

That is my weakness, buying fabric online and at the shop hop.
Gotta love this hobby, it keeps me out of the bars.
Too broke! LOL! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

$300 but it was all on sale for half price. I just told my DH that I just saved $300. I know, I'm BAD
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My monthly balances are what's frightening. :) I was on a mission to buy enough fabric for quilt, bedskirt, shams, pillowcases and 3 pairs of curtains for our bedroom. Then the brilliant idea hits me- a shower curtain and curtain for the bathroom. Cost- don't ask- you don't want to know. Add in some tidbits along the way of "specials" and- well, lets say I better do a lot of notary work. :)

Hubby say the bill, but just said I better finish the project.

But I haven't had a bedroom set purchase like this since 1996 when I splurged and bought a set for my last house. I wanted to put it on the bed now, but it's quite faded and as my daughter says- that is so 80s. So the pastel goes away and I'm working on Lakehouse, milk & honey blue hydrangeas. I have all the fabric, 1 topper made (love it!) and another cut out. But it's on the back burner as I finish WIPs 'cause I can't stand having unfinished projects hanging out. 2 more to go and I'm back in business. Hoping to finish before 1st week of August.

I have never kept track of what I spend. DH goes with me sometimes and just sits in the car and takes an hour + nap. I might spend over $100.00, but when that is all folded up and put in maybe just two bags, it doesn't look like much. This is at the surplus store and the name brands are at most $3.29 a yard, so can get quite a lot for $100.00. Love shopping for fabric. Who cares if we ever use it all up?

i know when I bought my sewing machine a long time ago and spent 700 on it, my husband threw a fit. I still have the machine and still sewing. He has spent more on tools for himself and only used them once or twice, and we both had good paying jobs. I felt a little guilty, about a minute or so :twisted: :twisted:

I try not to keep up with what I've spent...its too scary. I just tell DH what someone else here on the board has said...."just be happy I'm not a fast quilter...I couldn't afford it!" He disagrees..(aren't I lucky)

He is going shopping with me for a new machine..I'm looking at used...he is looking at the 7K embroidery machine. He always wants me to spend more than I want to on myself and my hobbies. He loves my quilts and takes them out to show everyone who comes over to the house. Its embarrassing! :oops:

So-you bought another box!!! LOL. I like your way of thinking!!!! :lol:

That must have been a really fun trip. I bet I could have given you a run for your money on who spent the most!!

My husband will do the same thing-nap in the car. He will drive me to any quilt shop, any where when we are on a trip. I tell him that he is an "enabler" to my habit and he just laughs!! When I get back in the car he always says "is that all you bought?" Gotta love him! :D

I don't know the most I've spent - a little less than $100 I think. From the very beginning of our marriage his money has been his, mine has been mine (I don't like that but...) so as long as there's food on the table and the kids have clothes - and he can see TV (those bills I pay) he's a happy man and doesn't care what I buy. :)

[quote]That must have been a really fun trip. I bet I could have given you a run for your money on who spent the most!!


I wish you where there.

PUT IT ON THE FRONT BURNER!!! I LOVE THAT FABRIC!!!
GETTER DONE!!
I WANT TO SEE IT!!!
or, at least post a pic of all the fabric :) :) :)

Count me in the ranks of those with an enabler hubby :D The big joke at the moment is that he is getting more yardage than I am when we shop! Never mind that he hasn't sewn a stitch since the Mariner's Compass he did :shock: - he still puts in his opinion on everything that goes up on the design wall :roll:

Seriously, tho - he is my biggest fan, and wants me to have whatever will make my quilting easier and more successful. A gal couldn't ask for more :D (well, not unless one of his lottery tickets hits, and then katie bar the door!!!)

Hear, hear. My husband I have a similar system. When I pay the bills, I also write checks for savings and a check for each of us. That way we both have money to spend as we want, without having to justify it to one another.

The most I have spent on fabric at a time is about $200. MY biggest purchase was buying my phaff, years ago. It felt like a leap of faith.

Being a beginner and relatively new to all of this, my husband thought that quilting would be a "cheap" hobby. We would go to Wally World and buy several pieces of $2 a yard fabric. My mistake was taking him to a real quilt store. He commented, "Gee, everthing is sure expensive here. Look at this $9 a yard!". When I bought several yards of that fabric for the back of a quilt, he got a quick lesson that maybe this wasn't so cheap." (he also has begun making comments as he sees my stash begin to "grow" that wouldn't it be better to wait until I start a specific project to buy the fabric???? LOL) He's the best, though, and I can't complain. He has spent plenty on his hobbies and I am just getting started...... :lol:

Glad I'm just one of many! Thanks for making me feel less guilty!

In January I went on a spree for my birthday - now remember here in Canada fabric is more expensive than in America - and I spent over $500! It was at 4 fabric stores and one store by itself was over $250, but there I bought all they had left of my favourite fabric -about 10-15 metres! I've curbed my spending lots - I leave the credit card at home and working at the quilt shop helps satisfy my cravings, too. I have enough projects to last me at least a year though!

Oh, and my DH is really the sweetest man, but when it comes to spending, he flips, so he doesn't see these receipts and he has no idea how much quilt fabric is... he did his spending on his hobbies in the past, and every year, gets new licenses and other guy stuff...

I spent $200 at Hancocks of Paducah back in March. Saw a pattern I wanted so I ordered it, some flannel on sale, and two new rulers (cause mine were deformed and I wasn't cutting straight anymore - I had to have them). Only needed to spend $20 more for free shipping and the shipping was $12 so I spent the extra $20 but was really only $18. But - I didn't just buy a couple of yards of fabric for $20 I bought a kit for $80 - whoops. But boy or boy is it pretty and I can't wait to tear into it :)

I told Jerry about the cost of fabric per yard ($9) for the stuff for our room and he said- well, we don't do it very often. (OK- once in 12 years- duh!)

I never carry a balance on my credit card so whatever I buy, I must pay for right away. Keeps me in line. Plus, my weekly allowance- I can save by packing my lunch. So I stash my cash until the urge strikes and then I just go nuts over the feel of fabric.

I must say though- since finding this group, I've been stash building because of the info posted and it's grown quite nicely. I keep telling myself I'm buying now because if I don't have work and money coming in, I can always sew to keep me warm. :)

I do have 2 nice machines (Juki 98Q and Viking Rose) that I got for decent prices and my trusty Singer Touch N Sew, so I don't really need much more. So I'm content buying fabric every so often.

Barb

I have taken $2-300 in cash to the road to California Quilt show and still had to charge another $150 or so plus hotel, 3 meals and gas. At a shop in Anaheim the first time I went I spent about $260. and almost everything was under $3. per yard. Got several great fabrics for backs. My husband knows I try to spend mostly cash and usually doesn't ask how much, He just looks at my stash and shakes his head. Sometime's asks "don't you have enough?" If it's a project he knows I'm working on for a gift or something I charge it because he knows I'm buying for that gift.

At one shop or on a spree. I once went from SO CA to Reno up the 395 stopping at any and every quilt shop I could find. I'm guessing, it was about 15 years ago around $3500.00. I spent just shy of $500.00 at a store called Wendi Moon in Reno. We had to ship boxes along the way.
A couple years ago a friend said she kept track of every quilt/related purchase for a year. I thought Oh! I'll do that, hubby looked at it and kept track with me, bad idea. I can never say anything about his hobby again restoring old cars.

sounds like a wonderful trip, and you were bad. I'd love to do a trip where I stopped at every available quilt shop. The most I've done in a day is our Central Coast Quilt Run when we had 15 stores and we did 12 one day and 3 the next with another 2 not on the run thrown in. Great fun. I have no idea what I spend on quilting stuff each year, I don't think I want to know.

I recently spent $75 when I went to the store for a spool of thread. Pretty expensive thread. But I couldn't resist the fabric. I agree

I'm the money shy one in our house. I don't like to spend it, I hate to watch the tally at the grocery store and if dh is with me when I shop I always try to put stuff back. But my husband follows behind me and picks it all back up to buy, if I try again to leave it behind, he makes me EXPLAIN why it needs to be put back, and the answer must be better than "it costs to much", or he'll buy it for me anyway.

When he's not with me I tell him how much I spent, I'd show him reciepts, but he never asks. It's a fun guessing game we play when I think I've found a good deal.

Our best shopping day, was after work when we were still a pretty new couple, we went shopping and "happened" by the Christmas stuff (it was mid November), and I sat on the floor of that store and pulled out boxes and boxes of BEAUTIFUL handpainted ornaments, seriously we had piles of them all around us. Then when I was done I started to put it all back saying "okay well now we know what we like and how much it will cost". That man wouldn't let me put them back! He bought EVERY SINGLE box that we had liked a even just a little! (that year we had a 11' Blue Spruce which we put up infont of mirrors, so it was decorated on all sizes)

So now every year we put up our Christmas tree, I see all the beautiful ornaments and am once again reminded, what an amazing husband I have. Now can we all get a giant AWWWWWWW! :D

OH! I nearly forgot! Barbm! That old comforter! Use it as batting. Seriously a friend of mine saw this whole show on making old things new again, and they re"covered" old ugly comforters! That saves money and will soothe your daughter.

The most I've spent at one time was $245.00, but the fabric was on sale (of course). That doesn't count the speeding ticket for $130 on the way back cause I was thinking of all the fabric and what I was going to do with it!!! Female trouper and she didn't appreciate my being a quilter.

reading all your posts and enjoying them. just want to tell you all to be thankful you got your husbands and i know you all are by the way you say nice things about them. my husband died in 1977 - i've only been quilting about a year and a half. but i know he wouldn't mind if he were here, he never minded years ago when i bought yarn to crochet afghans.
here's the first quilt i ever made and i didn't do a very good job but i'll post it anyhow, i made it as a memory quilt for my daughter. in the middle is my husband and I when we married in 1954, isn't that funny to look at now. love this site and all the wonderful people here!!