...and we can all change our dull rotary blades together. Somehow, I ended up with a mere 30 spare blades on hand right now. I must have been hard up for something to get with my JoAnn's coupons, so I grabbed blades...over & over & over.
Do you have too much of a particular sewing supply, because you either keep buying it on sale, or keep forgetting that you already have it?
Posts: 4448 | Location: About 28,000 Light Years From Galactic Center | Registered: Jul 23, 2004
I buy a few spools of Gutterman cotton thread when Joann's has them 40% off. Try to remember what colors I already have each time and need to make a list of colors/numbers or whatever. :-)
"We are all here.....because we are not all there."
Apparently I must have thought blue and white stripes were going to be going out of fashion or something, because in my cleaning, I'm finding an INORDINATE amount, including enough to slipcover a sofa!
I have bought patterns twice. More than once.
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"It's bad to supress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips."
Posts: 7486 | Location: California | Registered: Sep 02, 2003
I've been without power for the past 3 days due to the Blizzard - Nemo dumped about 20" and took down wires and trees...we have the emergency generator on now so I can be on the computer.
For the past 3 days I gathered all my bags/boxes of trims (for Crqzy Quilting) and wrapped them onto cards to fit into a tea box. Each tea box has room for 75 cards. Well, I have enough for 4 tea boxes! I found trims that I had bought years ago tucked away in a bag that I totally forgot - I was excited at first but by the time I finished wrapping all the trims on cards, I got a sick feeling knowing how much money I spent buying all of these! Yikes! The neat thing was I only had 4 repeats!
"She said she usually cried at least one each day, not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short"
WannaQ - I did that - made a list of Gutermann's colors, how many I have in my cases beside my machine, how many I have in that big Gutermann rack, and how many spares I have stored away. When I start a new spool, I adjust the numbers accordingly. When I use up a spool, that color goes on a list, which then goes to JoAnn's with me. You can go to the Gutermann website for color lists, but JoAnn's doesn't have all those colors in stock.
Nancy - You need to either work on that slipcover or find a stripe swap! Oh yea - patterns so nice, you buy them twice. Those go to the guild's yard sale.
Nicki - Sorry about your power outage - UGH!!! But it sounds as if you made good use of your time. Hope you're keeping your hands warm!This message has been edited. Last edited by: StarrySky,
Posts: 4448 | Location: About 28,000 Light Years From Galactic Center | Registered: Jul 23, 2004
I've bought the same thing a second time so many times I'm afraid to admit it. My most recent discovery? I bought the same cross-stitch kit twice! Yikes. It was a $40 kit which I'm sure I used my Hobby Lobby coupon for (twice). Great. Anyone need a kit with a really intricate Indian elephant?
Then there is my DH who lost a favorite star-gazing book. He finally found it — on the shelf at Half Price Books. Somehow it got mixed into the stuff we sold to them. He had to buy his own book back!
"Never be afraid to try anything new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic." Unknown.
I don't do it so much in quilting & sewing. But I do it constantly when choosing paperback books. I'll get halfway through the first page & suddenly it all comes back to me!
I go to used book sales with suitcases to fill & have never brought home a book I already have. BUT! I recently borrowed a pattern from a friend, and when I got done using it, I discovered that I had it in my own pile, unused/unopened. It had been there for years.
Posts: 4448 | Location: About 28,000 Light Years From Galactic Center | Registered: Jul 23, 2004
I do this with thread - I buy the same color over and over. And books as well. I will start reading a book and then realize I already read it. And movies, DH get netflixx and then realize we have already seen a movie.
And don't ask me how many cans of tomato sauce are in my pantry.
Posts: 670 | Location: California | Registered: Jun 17, 2004
Oh! Oh! I just did this, this year. Every year in january I buy a cross-stitch sampler to work on. Love the alphabet ones. Discovered I'd bought the same one last year...and never did it. I guess I can do it twoice and give as a oresent....
"It's bad to supress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips."
Posts: 7486 | Location: California | Registered: Sep 02, 2003
Quiltzilla, I do this with books alot. But I rarely buy them anymore. Instead, I borrow from the library. Then I don't feel bad bringing home the same books in an endless loop.
New ones are usually purchased on the Kindle, so I have a record of them.
I use paperbackswap.com to get rid of my old ones. Although I pay for shipping, it's cheaper than buying more bookshelves. I think.
Quilting items - I probably don't have as many as some quilters. No duplicates except on purpose - like small scissors for cutting threads near my small machine, my big machine, my ironing surface, my take along project ....
I also buy blades if I have nothing else to buy with my coupon. I noticed when I worked on valentines postcards that I have about 10 packages of "Steam a Seam2".
Erma
Craft Happens!
Posts: 2986 | Location: TX | Registered: Mar 09, 2007
I have computer lists of quilting books I have AND HAVE GIVEN AWAY, library magazines I have read, quilt/sewing magazines I have read. Most of the read magazines have also been given away. Bought a stack of quilt magazines for 25cents each and will go thru my list first before I look at any of them! Were some thin quilt books in with them and since she said 25cents each, I took the whole stack before she realized that there were books in there too! Chris
Reciently wanted to get the 3 Steig Larson books and I am now the owner of 3 of 1, 2 of 1, and 1 of 1. Would see them at the Library Book Store for $1 a paperback and I couldn't remember which one I had.
Posts: 5080 | Location: Tampa Bay | Registered: Jan 10, 2003
I would love to have that many rotary blade though StarrySky! I would then give one to my friends as a gift and surprise them unexpectedly!! I would annouce, it's time to change my blade and throw the 'extra' one to them, and tell them it's for when they have to change theirs the next time!!
I usually only have one 'extra' at a time.... maybe i should stock up more???
Love this talk!!
Posts: 2162 | Location: Somewhere where it snows..... | Registered: Mar 13, 2005
Oh yea - patterns so nice, you buy them twice. 
Those go to the guild's yard sale. 
I would annouce, it's time to change my blade and throw the 'extra' one to them, and tell them it's for when they have to change theirs the next time!!
