Getting it done!!

[susandennis]

I went threw every single pile o' yarn in this house and ruthlessly culled all but the very best - best feel, best color, best chance of being actually knitted or crocheted. I filled 4 tall kitchen bags with the rest. I killed 3 works in progress. There was never going to be any more progress.

I rediscovered two works in progress that actually have a future. I have two more in progress as well and a third planned but may actually be still born with that yarn going to something else.

I had nearly 10 skeins of sock yarn that I might, someday make socks out of, but the stuff was butt ugly. And I hate working with ugly yarn. It must have been one hell of a bargain.

I also emptied and reorganized my bag that holds hooks and needles and stitch markers and stuff.

Then I broke my pledge and left the house. I pilled everything into the car and drove it to Goodwill. They had a great set up. Cars lined up and they let about 4 in at a time. There were giant cardboard boxes. You drove in and emptied your stuff into the boxes and drove out. It was all very orderly and nicely done. except for one couple I saw in a car unloading stuff, all the workers and the rest of the donators all wore masks and most wore gloves.



It was sad to see the store closed. I was dying to pop into Uwajimaya, which is on the way home, and pick up a poke bowl for lunch but I was good and just came on home.

I cleaned up the mess I'd made and then made 6 egg and cheese quiche muffins which just now came out of the oven and look delicious.

Eufy is doing the living room now. I really wanted him to do the back rooms but he ignored the magnetic tape. We may have to have a chat.

I changed up Biggie's litter box yesterday and he's been a trouper about it. He's a litter kicker and he was making a mess. So I ordered up a box with a rim on it only turns out that box is way smaller than the one he's been used to. On the up side, it means I can put all the litter stuff (the bag holder, the scoop, the whisk broom) all inside the litter box cabinet which is fabulous. It looks so much nicer. Thanks, Bigs for dealing with the change so gracefully.

Comments

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

With as much purging as you do, it amazes me there's anything left. 4 bags of yarn????? Wow.

[susandennis]

hehehehe - clearly I have an acquisition problem :)

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

Our Goodwill is still closed. They won't even want the winter stuff I bagged up when it was still cold. :-(

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

One of my friends says that “they” are often unfinished projects for a reason (and she has no compunction about pitching them if they don’t behave immediately after being brought back from a crafting time out). Another friend says that life is too short to knit with crap yarn. Both women are wise.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

And I hate working with ugly yarn.

Me too - life is too short.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of anyone making their stash smaller! Isn't that illegal? When my best friend Sandra died, she left an absolutely massive stash and her knitting club cronies fell on it like vultures. That's the circle of life.

[alice-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Hi, can your explain Goodwill to a Brit? We have numerous charity shops each pitching for donations, locally its hospice, cats, air ambulance, elderly and international aid. That's five charity shops in an area of about thirty shops. They have reduced rent and have advantage of filling empty stores which is big issue here.

[susandennis]

GREAT question. We also have charity shops for various charities but not nearly so many. Unless they work a special deal with the landlord, no reduced rent. And they are scattered all over town. Most are just clothes, as well.

Goodwill is a massive enterprise who's main mission is to (crap, sorry, LJ wants to send before I'm ready)...

Anyway their main mission is training and job placement for people who need help in that area. They are very good at it and have centers all over the country where they help people get established or restablished into society.

Part of their funding comes from a giant operation of collecting used goods, fixing them if needed, cleaning them up and then selling them in stores everywhere. My location (about a mile and a half from here) is both a donation location and a store. The store has everything you could imagine. Clothes, jewelry, kitchen stuff, appliances big and small, frame, vases, books, videos - it is huge and fabulous.

Does that clear up confusion?

[alice-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Very informative thank you. 😊 My working knowledge of life in USA comes from TV shows so I hear phrases like Goodwill and assume its a generic name to avoid advertising a particular charity.

I had a great LJ thread years ago about voting procedures as your punch hole machines were a very weird concept to me.

[susandennis]

I totally understand. I was watching a British cooking show and they were charged with making a main dish and a pudding.

Here, pudding is like a custard that hasn't set yet. Always sweet, usually chocolate. Mostly for kids.

I was very confused when their "puddings" turned out to be something entirely different. I Googled it and got it all sorted out but, also discovered a lot of other Americans had the same confusion.

[alice-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Pants

Very different meaning here... Oh and vests.

Fanny packs... Oh dear god!