Are we Hoarders or is it something else?
12-19-2013, 11:01 AM
#82
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: by the lake in piney woods of e. texas
Posts: 150
It's not the stash, hoard, collection that's growing, it's our houses that are shrinking. It's a well known fact that creative, intelligent and loving women, quilters in fact, exude warmth which dries out their houses causing shrinkage and therefore their stash, hoard, collection only "appears" to be somewhat large in volume.
12-19-2013, 07:06 PM
#83
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 27,324
Heck no, I don't think of myself as a hoarder... In order to create you have to have a stash from which to work, unless you live right beside a LYS. The stash facilitates the creativity and the creation. It would be like calling a painter a "hoarder" because they have more than one tube of paint.
12-19-2013, 07:53 PM
#84
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 714
I have so much fabric that I know I will probably never be able to use it all myself. I do donate regularly to the Quilts of Valor our guild is involved with and do give to others who need it. I guess I am a hoarder with no intention of stopping. I do shop from my stash and the stores as well as from people here. I enjoy it, I use a lot of it, give it away, and love having it. I have one room full of fabric and love it. I will use as much as I can before I die and then it can be given to my daughter-in-law's mom, my daughter, daughter-in-law, and the guild I belong it. It will not be wasted or tossed away. Call me a hoarder if you want and I will wear the title with honor.
12-19-2013, 08:55 PM
#85
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 12
I don't think of it as "HOARDING". I refer to it as "PREPPING". One never knows when you will need that Lime Green print, also if the power grid goes down I have a machine I can still sew with so I MUST have a stash. I would be able to my family warm with my quilts and I would be able to use them as money for other items. So NO you are not hoarding, you are just thinking ahead. LOL
12-19-2013, 10:09 PM
#86
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 2,633
I don't think I am a hoarder. I believe I collect just like men collect tools. How many screwdrivers, hammers, drills, etc. do you think my DH has out in the quonset? I don't know and as I am sitting here he sure doesn't either. The other day he said something about cleaning out some stuff in the house and I told him he better leave MY STUFF alone. If he wanted to clean anything get your butt out to the quonset and start cleaning your own stuff out. He has so many buses, cars, pickups filled with stuff that he is going to use sometime. He is 68 1/2 yr old. Getting stiffer with arthritis, and double hernia makes it hard for him to bend over to pick up stuff. I still work and I pay all the bills for the hh and also his gas and fuel bills to feed the cows from the tractor. So until he starts having to pay for my addiction to fabric and old sewing machines, it is hands off. I have 2 girls who will use what I have when I am gone and I also have some friends I have here on the board that I give boxes to.
12-20-2013, 05:17 AM
#87
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Yankton South Dakota
Posts: 564
My DH would call me a hoarder as with several uninspired individuals, but I call myself a gatherer, and am always using stuff I have. I guess I understand the definition better because I did have a friend that could have been on hoarders the show. My house or sewing room look nothing like that, and I believe if you are using it, you aren't hoarding it. Now, what are we doing with the quilts made from our stash. Some people hold on to them, but they are out the door for someone at my house. I currently have made hundreds of quilts in my lifetime, and I have 3 in my house right now.
12-21-2013, 08:39 AM
#88
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Kauai, Hawaii
Posts: 376
Sure that some of us watch "American Pickers" -- does your stash resemble the big barns full of stuff to the rafters, or the neat collections of lovely items tenderly taken care of?
That might well be the difference between "hoarding" and "collecting".
That might well be the difference between "hoarding" and "collecting".
12-21-2013, 10:30 AM
#89
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Campton,Kentucky
Posts: 1,397
I don't like to think of myself as a fabric hoarder , but my stash never seems to go down in size , only gets larger. .. This got me thinking .. am I hoarding or is it that I am just too optimistic in thinking that I really will get to make all this fabric into quilts? What do you think are you a hoarder or too optimistic for the size of your stash???? or is there something more to your hoard?.... sorry meant to say large stash.
12-21-2013, 11:47 AM
#90
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Navan. Co. Meath. Ireland
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What a great post. Love all the replies. Can associate with some of them. About 6 years ago I did a clean out. Gave away about 9/10ths of my fabric to schools, friends etc. Only kept my favorites. Today I have double what I gave away, more than I will ever use. Am I happy? Yes. I have no problem sharing with my quilting group. Am I a hoarder? No.
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