Do you organize just to buy more?
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Do you organize just to buy more?
Now that I have a few things organized (far from done)....I am feeling urges to buy more stuff. Which only lends itself to needing to organize more.....you know. The gerbil wheel effect.
I am trying to resist the urge, but.....the lights.....the colors.....the fabric!!
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Do you organize to "justify" going out and buying more?
I am trying to resist the urge, but.....the lights.....the colors.....the fabric!!
LOL
Do you organize to "justify" going out and buying more?
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Not that there is anything wrong with that!
BH mystery quilt begins Friday so have to clear my cutting table and take out my fabrics..,.need another plastic container for them!
BH mystery quilt begins Friday so have to clear my cutting table and take out my fabrics..,.need another plastic container for them!
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I clear my work table but I really don't organize my sewing area or I lose stuff. I do need to a really good house clean before Christmas. I like to save my shoulders for sewing but my kitchen cupboards and floors need a good scrub.
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I like to put everything from one project away before I start another one. I do not function well in clutter. I don't need anything to encourage me to buy more fabric-it just happens when I go in a LQS or turn on the computer and look at quilting sites. Next year I am definitely going to declare a moratorium on fabric purchases. I really like things I have purchased-so I need to stitch them up.
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I have to be somewhat organized or I get crazy. I like to be able to find what I want when I want it.
#8
OUCH.....I hear you! I spent two nights (6 hours or more) doing that....organizing, sorting, purging....but not with the intent to purchase more. I found items that I no longer need, want or have a use for. Those are going to the free table at guild. I did find a few more ufo's that I had (gasp) forgotten about. AND...found a few more quilt patterns that I had pulled out to make. Fortunately I have plenty of fabric already washed, folded and stashed. Good luck with the continued organizing!
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I'm trying to get organized and realize I have a couple totes with some bags with fabric that made it past the laundry room into the sewing room. I took the fabric out and laid it across my cutting table. I have no reason other than that fabulous fabric I saw at the lqs couple weeks ago, to buy any more. Those bags had 9 yards of fabric in them. The fabric is from 2 years ago. Still with receipt in them. I do not remember the fabric. I signed for them but wow what a brain fart. They were in the bottom of a black tote.
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LOL tess. I have brain farts, too. And to only find 9 yards was a bonus. I once found 15 yds in a bag....they coordinated, but I couldn't for the LIFE of me remember what pattern I had picked them up for! I "obviously" HAD to have it, though!
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Thanks for the chuckle!
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Thanks for the chuckle!
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