Breaking for lunch
Apr. 10th, 2010 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Our bed is still covered with yarn but I need to rest for a while. I also have more sympathy for the folks on the various hoarding shows who get tired after what seems to the viewer (read, me) a ridiculously short amount of time. I'm exhausted and I'm no where near done. Also, unless you lived here, you wouldn't be able to tell anything has changed. Unnerving, that.
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Date: 2010-04-10 07:45 pm (UTC)The hoarding shows make me feel better, because I'm not that bad and scared, because I'm afraid that I could end up that bad.
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Date: 2010-04-12 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-10 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-12 05:38 pm (UTC)The majority of my stash is acrylic (Caron Simply Soft). When I first started working with fiber in May of 2006, it was the first yarn I found readily available that wasn't stiff and scratchy. I still like it for its softness but I've heard rumors that it is somewhat delicate and may not hold up through repeated machine washings.
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Date: 2010-04-10 09:39 pm (UTC)I need to weed my stash a little --it's overflowing the space I've defined for it. (No wool, though.)
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Date: 2010-04-12 05:38 pm (UTC)Also, as for the "it'll take too long," I can understand where he's coming from but that thought generally doesn't stop me. I figure if it needs to be done, it doesn't really matter how long or how munch energy it'll take, I just have to get started and work my way through. On the other hand, if I think the job is pointless, I may never start.
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Date: 2010-04-11 02:32 am (UTC)Ahavia
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Date: 2010-04-12 05:41 pm (UTC)Where do you store your winter linens? In your apartment or in a storage unit elsewhere?
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Date: 2010-04-12 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-12 10:51 pm (UTC)Last Aug. I was in the hospital with congestive heart failure. I came home scared. I could no longer live alone. At 63. I hired help to get me thru the day and started working on moving to this Quaker facility. I also hired a company, Here to Home, which helps seniors do what I needed to do, downsize and set up my new home. While I layed in bed, this wonderful woman emptied my closets so I could decide what I would keep and what would be given to a agency that was helping women get off of welfare. And then the same was done to my books and doll collections, etc. I went from a 1380 sq. ft. 2 bedroom apartment to a 660 sq ft. 1 bedroom place. Much was given away to places I felt very good about. And the rest was boxed up, the moving company moved me 4 mo. later and Here to Home set me up here so I am surrounded by things I love and am very comfortable. Yes, it cost money to get that much help but it was worth it. I could not do all this on my own.
If I really can not do something on my own, I ask for help. And so far, have gotten the help I need.
I feel blessed. Ahavia
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Date: 2010-04-11 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-12 05:47 pm (UTC)That's actually one of my problems -- I hate to waste stuff or see stuff that is still good (it works, it isn't missing any parts, and it isn't even scratched up) end up in recycling when it could be used (and hopefully loved) by someone else.
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Date: 2010-04-11 03:52 pm (UTC)I did a little better the last time I sorted yarn, and labeled the bins... except that was 2 years ago and at some point the labels no longer match the bins.
What I want is something like Readerwear for yarn and fabric-- scan the barcode, and it'll go online, look up what you have, give you a price for it... then you an input what bin it's in, how much you have and if there is a project plan for it.
I have a very organized imagination... too bad i seldom put it into practice:)
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Date: 2010-04-12 02:16 pm (UTC)I also took photos of the various boxes I stuffed the yarn into, as I knew I wouldn't be able to remember what box held what.
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Date: 2010-04-11 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-12 05:50 pm (UTC)