![]() And if I really do decide to crochet a cute little hedgehog, I will go out and buy the single skein of grey eyelash yarn I will need. I already sew, quilt, and embroider – I’m very unlikely to also learn amigurumi, knitting, jewelry-making, garment sewing, printmaking, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, and all of the other kajillion crafts I was storing supplies for, just in case I decided to try them out. Or – to be more precise – I will definitely NOT take the time to learn every single craft I’ve hoarded supplies for for the last two decades. I could learn – and I’d like to – but the realistic side of me knows that I probably won’t. The problem with that is that I don’t crochet amigurumi. They’d be cute manes or tails, or be great for little hedgehogs or porcupines. I had kept a bunch of small skeins of eyelash yarn (given to me by someone who was decluttering – ha!) because I thought I might someday use them in amigurumi. Decluttering like this can be hard because it often means letting go of dreams. And I breathed a huge sigh of relief!ĭon’t ignore the emotional difficulty. Yarn in ugly colors, scratchy yarn, fluffy yarn that I loathe crocheting with – it all went away. We very quickly picked the 5-6 skeins of yarn we actually liked – and got rid of everything else. I called Jo in (because she crochets sometimes) and we dumped it out on the floor. You wouldn’t know that from looking at the huge (overflowing – the lid wouldn’t fit on it) bin of yarn I had. I’ll crochet something every once in a while, and sometimes I need yarn for hair or a tail – but that doesn’t add up to much. The best example of this was when I went through my yarn bin. If you were strolling through Joann’s and you saw this stuff – how much of it would you actually put in your cart and buy today? Probably not much. I used the word shopping very deliberately. The knick-knacks that make you really happy when you pick them up. Pull out the things that you actually WANT. ![]() Now – start “shopping” in that pile of stuff. Make it look (and feel) like a new piece of furniture. Dust it, polish it, vacuum out all the weird nooks and crannies full of Cuddle Fleece fuzz. This is where I’ve stopped before – the things with an easy reason to get rid of them. But know that this is the easy stuff – things like the jar of bobbins that went to a sewing machine I got rid of over ten years ago, or the water damaged tablet of nice drawing paper. Bag them up if they’re trash, box them for donating – go ahead and get rid of them now. As you unload, you’ll spot some things you know you need to get rid of. Stack it on the floor, pile it on a table – whatever you have to do to get down to an empty piece of furniture. Remove everything from that piece of furniture. I tackled one piece of furniture at a time. The experts say to do one room at a time – but even that was too much for me. ![]() There is stuff everywhere – and I wasn’t using even close to half of it. There are permanent piles of stuff stacked on the corners (out of the way, right?) of my work tables. There are plastic tubs stacked under my sewing table and in front of my storage shelves. And this was a good day! Every horizontal surface is full of stuff. ![]()
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