Clothes hoarding

You can't pass up a good bargain you find at a store that allows you to fill a paper bag full of clothes, and all you pay for all the clothes is 5 dollars! How can you not buy clothes at that price? So you shop around and find all the clothes you would wear or would "like to" wear (you know those goals you want to fit into a size 10 instead of size 16 or whatever the case may be) so you stock up on the motivating clothes that you absolutely love and also some that you can wear now and just in case you end up going in the opposite direction even a few larger sizes than you are in now. Wow! They have maternity clothes! You plan to have a baby some day, so you snatch up some of them too, along with baby clothes of both sexes just so you have 'em whenever you end up having the baby. Then you also find some clothes for your nieces and nephews thinking they are the size you are finding but later find out that you were off on sizes so you save those for your kids you someday will have. Boxing all the clothes you can't wear and the clothes you don't need yet, because you don't have the baby, you aren't even pregnant yet, wow! How crazy is this? But it's OK, you will someday be a size 10, you will get pregnant, will have a baby girl, and maybe even a boy later or visa versa.

Good thought, bad outcome.

Free stuff hoarding

While online you stumble upon a site called freecycle and think-wow I can get rid of all my stuff to people who really want my junk I don't feel right throwing away because someone may get some use out of it. So you join and see posts for free stuff you could use "someday" so you email a response and they email back with where to pick

 it up. So you go pick up your new treasure. What a thrill! You actually were the first to respond and you won-so to speak-the item, and you didn't even have to spend a dime, wow! Suddenly your intent of joining to get rid of stuff goes immediately to the back burner, because all the items you someday will use may go to someone else.

You may end up watching the message board all hours of the night and day to be the first to respond to get the items that you may someday use. I mean you know those things that may come in handy on odd occasions, yeah, those things.

Just to think, you now have a garage full of free stuff you someday will use, but the original intent was to get rid of your bedroom full of stuff that you've come to realize you won't ever use these items ever again, yet you seemed to increase the pile 3 times the original size. Because your double car garage is now a storage unit without the outrageous monthly charges attached to the handy building that keeps things out of sight and out of mind.

Good thoughts, bad outcome.

Quilt Hoarding

Your family member whom you adored passed away. While the family goes through their belongings, they find many unfinished quilts and sewing projects, along with boxes upon boxes of material and thread. No one seems to want any of it so you say you'll take it all, with the thoughts of finishing the projects plus you find some patterns you wouldn't mind making. So you take these boxes home, may even sort things, even put it in a priority system of which ones you want to do first. But you ended up as over whelmed as your lost loved one must've felt and you decide to just box them up for a later date. You feel guilty throwing out your loved ones's hard, unfinished work, so you keep it, in the hopes you can finish it someday. But it just sits stored in boxes in your home. You may even go to garage sales and find boxes of material for a great buy-even bags of cut squares for quilting and you just cant pass up these great buys. So you add this to your already overwhelming heap of material and hope to someday be able to finish the quilts and then eventually start your own quilt.

Good thoughts, bad outcome.

Yarn Hoarding

So you decide to teach yourself to knit and crochet. All those years ago when your grandmother sat you down and taught you or rather tried to teach you come rushing back to you, you remember the toys, blankets, sweaters, pot holders, slippers, socks, and many other things your grandmother made and you remembered how special it made you feel to received these "slaved over" items. You decide that's what you're going to do for your family and friends.

You buy all the pattern books and magazines you can find, when you stumble on a good buy on yarn you buy it, and when you see a skein of yarn and the color stands out to you as being the perfect color for a certain pattern in that one book, you of course, buy it. Before you know it you have boxes of yarn, even the ones heaped together from garage sales you couldn't say no to. A full, even over-flowing box of perfectly good yarn that just needs sorting through for 5 bucks-thats like 40 dollars worth of yarn right there! So you buy it too. Before you know it you have boxes upon boxes of patterns and yarn. Do you disagree? OK then, you have had time to start projects but they too are boxed up unfinished, or even in a tote you carry around from time to time so you can work on it here and there.

Or maybe you have finished projects but the people receiving the gifts don't seem as thrilled as you remember yourself being when your grandmother gave you the same sweater with a corded telephone knitted into it. OK, maybe its outdated since now we use cordless phones, but you spent hours on it and they should appreciate your hard work whether it's outdated or not.

Good thoughts, Bad outcome.

This company came out with a gadget that takes broken crayons and melts them into new crayons. How neat! you think, so you buy it take it home, even try it out and it works! How exciting! Then you put it in your closet till you gather more broken worthless crayons.

Five Years later you accumulated a shoe box or two full of worthless crayon pieces. Do you have time to sort them and use that handy gadget you bought 5 years ago? Possibly. Have you forgotten about it? No doubt you did, minus the second you stumble upon a crayon piece you quickly place into the shoe box with its other friends, during of which you don't have time to sort and make new crayons and decide you'll do it later, but never get around to doing. But you keep right on collecting those crayons and hope someday to be able to sit down and sort through all the bits and pieces so you can make new crayons of same colors and then finally make some use of the gadget you purchased so long ago. See this is how it goes a lot of the time whether we find the gadgets at garage sales or on sale at the store, you just can't pass it up when it saves the planet in some way.

Good thoughts, bad outcome.