S.A.B.L.E.

[Paul Payne]

You may be a victim of S.A.B.L.E.- or a member! Betsy, my wife, is an avid knitter, and understands my need to accumulate more model stuff. Hence, S.A.B.L.E.- stash accumulated beyond life expectancy! Betsy has as much yarn stash as many modelers have kits, and also as many unfinished projects that she will haul out occasionally. Betsy temporarily lost her fingerprints when she was five- sanding the spokes of a 1924 Chevy touring car, so I married well. Sometimes a knitting project goes a bit wrong and Betsy has to rip out a days worth of stitches and continue from there- does this experience remind anyone of a project they had to tear down and rebuild? 

[Rodent]

43 minutes ago, Paul Payne said:

does this experience remind anyone of a project they had to tear down and rebuild? 

That's kind of a mean thing to say about Betsy  

Congratulations, I too married a hoarder (books).

[Tom Geiger]

My mother had the yarn thing.. when she passed I brought it all to Good Will. I’m sure it was passed on to other women to add to their estate.

[Paul Payne]

Betsy and I both share the book thing, both pleasure reading and reference- her for every aspect of the fiber arts, me for cars, ships and boats, and art- also music, glass, pottery-this list goes on!

[NOBLNG]

10 hours ago, Paul Payne said:

Sometimes a knitting project goes a bit wrong and Betsy has to rip out a days worth of stitches and continue from there- does this experience remind anyone of a project they had to tear down and rebuild? 

What...she couldn’t fix it with a dab of super glue??

[ksnow]

10 hours ago, Paul Payne said:

You may be a victim of S.A.B.L.E.- or a member! Betsy, my wife, is an avid knitter, and understands my need to accumulate more model stuff. Hence, S.A.B.L.E.- stash accumulated beyond life expectancy! Betsy has as much yarn stash as many modelers have kits, and also as many unfinished projects that she will haul out occasionally. Betsy temporarily lost her fingerprints when she was five- sanding the spokes of a 1924 Chevy touring car, so I married well. Sometimes a knitting project goes a bit wrong and Betsy has to rip out a days worth of stitches and continue from there- does this experience remind anyone of a project they had to tear down and rebuild? 

My wife is a knitter/spinner/weaver also. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. My stash is no where near hers, but I got a much later start in life than she did. I am doing my best to catch up.

[BlackSheep214]

Amateurs.... after my dad died in 2017, I was the unfortunate one to get the house cleaned out and emptied. When I started in my mom (mom died in 2013) & dad's bedroom closet, I found yarn stacked from ceiling to floor. I mean the closet was stuffed to the gills that you would be afraid to open the closet door. Don't ask how many spools of yarn there were but it BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH near filled 1/4 of the Bagster dumpster. 

[peteski]

5 hours ago, BlackSheep214 said:

Don't ask how many spools of yarn there were but it BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH near filled 1/4 of the Bagster dumpster. 

Now imagine someone doing that with all the models you acquired and stashed  in the last few decades!

[Tom Geiger]

6 hours ago, BlackSheep214 said:

Amateurs.... after my dad died in 2017, I was the unfortunate one to get the house cleaned out and emptied

I was that guy in my family!  Starting with my grandparents house where they lived more than 50 years. Neat and clean, but they never threw anything out!  I found mint sealed model kits and other 1960s toys they hid in their basement and forgot to give us kids!

Household products and Christmas decorations from the 1950s.. I did a booming business on eBay.. 

My parents had an abundance of stuff. Having lived in the military much of their adult lives, having to lighten up and move every few years, they never learned to voluntarily purge junk once they settled down. 

My father was that guy who’d stop on the street and pull the motor out of an old washer.. need a few dozen washer / dryer / furnace motors? We had them!