Annz

I'm glad you were able to get a few things. Too bad they sold most of the fabric to a quilt store when there are so many quilters who need more fabric. :P

Rock Lady

Hoarding is a mental illness. We had a problem with my MIL several years ago. I looked it up on the internet and, sure enough, it was listed as a mental illness and they need to get professional help for it.

KSue

I don't have near the fabric most people have, but I do enjoy creating, looking and buying. I am trying to use a lot of what I already have on hand to make some scrap quilts (which I love by the way). When my children would ask me why I buy all of this fabric I just tell them so I will have something to do when I retire. (Like that will ever happen).

JUNEC

How sad. I am still trying to organize my house from all the items I have from my parents - My mom lived with us for 2 years before she passed.

I think I will spend tomorrow trying to clean out one section of my "sewingroom"

SandraG

I get a lot of pleasure from my stash and my plans of what to do with it. I have told my daughter and husband that if I die, they are to contact "XXXX" and let them sell/get what they can for my stash and machines (if daughter doesn't want anything) and put the money up for my grandkids' college fund. I can't worry about what happens after I die. I do think I have a touch of hoarding because our small house is full but if my kids would get all of their stuff out (and they have been gone for years) there would be more room. Maybe one day...LOL!

lalaland

I went to an estate sale once and the upstairs bonus room was filled with supplies for every craft imaginable. But this lady actively crafted, no new or unopened packages of anything. Everything had pretty much been gone through by the time my girlfriend and I got there, or so we thought. The lady's son was there and he said we could have whatever we could stuff into one of those big moving boxes for $5 so I just randomly took boxes that looked like they had anything fabric related in them and dumped the contents into a big box until it was full. I figured I could find a home for anything I couldn't use.

What I found when I got home were tons and tons of quilting projects and panels and good fabric that apparently were buried in these boxes and no one had noticed them. There was so much I ended up dispersing them to local groups who did a lot of charity quilting.

Even though I didn't know the lady, it was obvious she was a crafter who enjoyed every craft imaginable, she was probably the first one to try out any new craft on the market. I made sure all the things I took from her home were not abandoned or wasted.

ljorange

I agree, she probably spent a lot of time thinking of what she would make someday. The anticipation and planning is half the fun. I love shopping for art supplies and have a few unopened things that I fully expected to use but never got around to.

lalaland

I have a lot of stuff, and some crafts I don't do anymore and probably won't take up again so I keep an eye on Craiglist for people that need items for something specific. This summer a mom was looking for craft projects for her girls to do during the summer. They didn't have a lot of money and I had a surplus of some of the things they were asking for. They were thrilled to get the stuff and I was thrilled it went to someone who needed it. And my sewing guild has a garage sale every year for scholarships and I participate in that. That's how I get rid of fabric I no longer want or notions I never use.

Ever look at your fabric and wonder what in the heck possessed you to buy that?? Yuk!!

SandraG

I also went to a sale where a woman had been killed in an accident and her husband was selling her quilting. Her sisters and sisters-in-law were in charge of the cutting and selling and did a very good job. They had taken what they wanted and were selling the rest. It was an incredible stash and tools and took up a whole basement. It was cabinet after cabinet of fabric and crafting supplies. I got about 150 yards for $1 a yard; got rulers for a dollar. Apparently she had so many plans for when she retired but died shortly before retirement. There's no telling how many thousands of yards were sold. Her magazines were given away. I think she would have been pleased that her crafts would be living on with others who love her fabric and tools.

Quiltaddict

I wish I had seen that ad. My son lives in Orange County. I would have sent him to the sale to buy stuff for me.