I’m wearing a shirt today that reads “Not buying yarn is like not breathing!”
Fan in Californiasays
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Tinksays
Ooooh, here’s another reason. You’re buying a new house and you’re going to repaint parts of it, which means you need to buy yarn so you can make cozies (sp?) and other doodads that coordinate with the paint color you’re going with. So you’re pre-decorating the new house. 😛
Annasays
There’s a knitting meme that says something along the lines of, “If someone tells you you don’t need to buy any more yarn, unfriend them immediately. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life.” 🙂
Do you want some yarn? I have reached that point where I’m never going to be able to use the yarn I have purchased. Would love to destash for a good cause to my favorite author!
Candicesays
Buy the yarn AFTER the move. One less thing to unpack, misplace or forgot what box it was in. My husband is the Buy it now friend. I never express interest for anything in front of him. If I dont buy it for myself he will get it. To save us from going broke I stay really quiet.
I am with Thea. Buy the yarn and have it delayed for shipping to your new home.
Teresasays
If you buy yarn now then you will not get to buy the really cool yarn coming out for Christmas. Wait for cool yarn. I guess you can tell that I do not knit. I admire people who do.
Anniesays
Buy the yarn. Now or later, buy the yarn.
Because yarn has to be knit or woven or in general used, it’s a really excellent purchase, containing in and of itself both immediate (yay yarn!!) and delayed (knit/woven/crocheted item!!) gratification. Buy the yarn.
Sharonsays
Great purchase if you have an immediate need for it. Buy cool yarn now if you have a project; wait until after move to buy cool yard to hoard for “some day”.
KRsays
Hahahah! I’m totally more the Thea Harrison type.
Karen Bsays
Buy the yarn. You need the stress release with all the hoops you are jumping through to get your dream home.
Fan in Californiasays
And both are great!!!! ?
Kylinnsays
Three kinds of friends. The third gives you a gift certificate to the yarn store. 🙂
This is why all of your friends are my favorite authors. Y’all are awesome. Good luck with the being responsible; it sucks sometimes, lol.
Msays
I say buy the yarn… you need a way to relax and nothing relaxes like good fiber.
strangejoycesays
Buy the yarn. Life always happens so make sure to give yourself joy in moments.
Yvonnesays
People line up to spend your money for you. You kids, your spouse, charities, utilities, the bank, the list goes on. I’m with Thea, buy the wool.
Alisonsays
At first glance I wondered what kind of fancy yams you have down in the States…
Teresasays
That’s a good one. Loved it.
Katsays
Depends on how much Whole Foods thinks they can get away with.
Patricia Schlorkesays
To get the yarn or not to get the yarn, that is the question (channeling a little Shakespeare right now).
Pros of getting yarn now: look at it, pet it, be happy you got it before winter sets in.
Cons of getting yarn now: moving yarn from one place to another, not using it right away, Gordon possibly running out the back door saying “yarn is a four letter word!”
Did you know yarn can be a swear word? It was in my family since my mom would buy so much of it she gave it away to a friend.
Ramonasays
Hmm, depends on the options. Is there an equal urge to eat chocolate, drink margaritas, and buy expensive chandeliers for the new bathroom? In that case, buying yarn would definitely be the healthier choice. Just sayin’.
Gailsays
Thea rocks , love her books, love her advice buy the yarn and made Thea a scarf!!
Rhyn Gabrielsays
LOL – oh that’s good! But make that 3 kinds of friends. “Expensive yarn? Hmmm – define expensive…”
Peregrine Watkins-Fieldsays
As somebody onece said: “With great power comes great responsibility”! Having your own home/inn would give you the great power but responsibility? – That is learned not bought. Having said that, just remember that with great responsibility can come great boredom unless you occasionally throw responsibility to the winds and indulge yourself in your cravings!
I’m sure you will make the right choice in the end. Hey! – You can always knit the wall coverings for that extra room!
Vickisays
Or…you could ask Santa.
Mariannesays
We really need both kinds of friends in or lives – the kind sitting in the jail cell with us, and the kind who comes and bails us out – don’t we?!
If buying the yarn will make you happy & help you distress, then buy it!
If buying the yarn will make you momentarily happy, then be a source of guilt and added stress later, wait to but it until you close.
Either way, buy it!!!!! Just depends on when. ?
Mariannesays
Okay – correction here. I meant de-stress, not “distress”. HATE autocorrect!!!
Well I’d be the “buy the yarn” friend, especially since my thought is if the yarn is on sale for less then $2 then it doesn’t count (in terms of what I’m buying). Which means when I go to my yarn store with a coupon for 20% off everything, I leave with at least 2 large bags of yarn….
Diannesays
Dang girl, how much yarn do you buy?
Sairasays
Umm “a lot.” I crochet blankets for Moffitt’s cancer center and at Christmas for nursing homes, so that accounts for quite a bit of my “sale” yarn. So about 24+ blankets a year (they are only 42″ by 42″ approx). I make dresses for my great niece. I also keep the “ends” and will do a scrap blanket once a year because it takes forever to make the “ball.” (You cut the scrap into 1-2.5 foot pieces and tie them together randomly and make a ball to crochet from. Then you crochet so that all the loose ends are on one side, so you have a fuzzy and a smooth side. Looks awesome and no ends to sew in, which I love).
Colleensays
My daughter “de-stashed” before she moved. She posted a picture of her new room when she got settled. It has a armoir full of yarn. So, even de-stashing doesn’t help a yarn addict. However, it is a “relatively” harmless addiction, compared to some. Buy the yarn. Running your fingers over it and squishing it in your hands is supposedly as de-stressing as petting a cat or dog.
Margaretsays
I used to go broke buying books. I could never deny myself. Lucky for me I discovered the library or I’d be eating mac ‘n cheese everyday.
Prosperosays
Once you become part of the Writer’s knitting Mafia you can never leave. If you try they leave a sheep’s head knitted out of horseshoe in your bed 🙂
Prosperosays
Sorry should be horse hair darn auto correct.
Reginasays
Darling, You have to leave something for your house warming. Your friends will want to celebrate your wonderful new palace just as much as you want to show them your favorite features. (ie The shiny new toaster over the bath,…) Buy the house, throw a party, still get the yarn! Win, Win, Win!
Terrysays
Well, to play devil’s advocate and just ridiculously logical. You could potentially be moving soon- and if you do, you will be SO busy you will not have time to knit whatever item you are thinking that expensive yarn will be perfect for. By the time you get unpacked, organized, etc…. you will have a new item you will be hot to make, and have your eye on a different yarn(also probably expensive cause it’s so much nicer than crappy yarn). The confusion and guilt ferrets will chew you up and not allow you to enjoy the new project as much as you want to because the stuff you want to buy now will be sitting there, taunting you. Just let this expensive yarn go…..if you want it after the move, it will still be there. And you will enjoy it even more. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. 🙂
SUZANNE ROTHCHILDsays
Solution: Buy the yarn after you move into the house, that way you won’y have to pack & unpack it.
Katie Ssays
Being “responsible” is highly overrated. Buy the yarn NOW…for it may be sold out tomorrow! Besides, it is lightweight so it won’t add much to the move.
Carolsays
Totally funny! People crack me up!!
30 book a month readersays
Buy the yarn!!! YOLO!!!
Silver Drallionsays
In your new house, have 1 room for yarn. Just 1 room. 5henbyou can see it, touch it, FIND it whenever you need a yarn fix. And stash all your new yarn fixes, um, I mean purchses……. ????
Samanthasays
Go Thea! Now that’s my kinda friend.
Courtenaysays
I third the comment to buy the yarn after the move. I do not know which is more stressful, buying a home or moving, but I suspect the latter. Minimize the amount of stuff you have to move. Then, when you getting tired packing or unpacking the nth box, you can triumphantly think “At least we don’t have to pack the extra yarn!”
Then, when the move is mostly complete, you can celebrate by buying yarn.
Gailsays
Go Thea Harrison! Not moving yarn has its advantages, but didn’t you say there were two cool yarn stores close to the new house? You can give yourself treats each time you go to take care of something.
There is also the option of using Amazon’s handy Universal Wish List button to mark the yarn you would like to have so you can pick it now but get it for Xmas or other gift-giving occasion.
Dianesays
Life is too short. Buy the Yarn!
Briannasays
I’m the second kind, I don’t even have to know a person to enable them to buy yarn. I convinced a lady to buy a fleece she was waffling on at the recent fiber festival.
Randasays
If you use the yarn for research purposes – Kate’s new hobby while pregnant. After all, Conlan will need a baby blanket – the yarn becomes a tax deduction.
Loriesays
The best kind of friend would buy the yarn for you. #LoveEnablers
Kat52says
Buy yarn after the move so you know just how much you need to fill up all the closets, nooks and cranies.
In the mean time look at yarn porn to get your fix.
Shannonsays
I found something I thought you might enjoy…combining two things you like to do.
Brookesays
My mental author image of Thea Harrison from now until the end of time will be a chibi TH with little devil horns and bat wings fluttering over a cartoon shoulder. I will not be able to consume anymore of her fabulous works without laughing hysterically whenever I see her author photo. Definitely having a laugh over this one!
I’m wearing a shirt today that reads “Not buying yarn is like not breathing!”
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Ooooh, here’s another reason. You’re buying a new house and you’re going to repaint parts of it, which means you need to buy yarn so you can make cozies (sp?) and other doodads that coordinate with the paint color you’re going with. So you’re pre-decorating the new house. 😛
There’s a knitting meme that says something along the lines of, “If someone tells you you don’t need to buy any more yarn, unfriend them immediately. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life.” 🙂
Do you want some yarn? I have reached that point where I’m never going to be able to use the yarn I have purchased. Would love to destash for a good cause to my favorite author!
Buy the yarn AFTER the move. One less thing to unpack, misplace or forgot what box it was in.
My husband is the Buy it now friend. I never express interest for anything in front of him. If I dont buy it for myself he will get it. To save us from going broke I stay really quiet.
Bahahaha your husband is the real MVP
I am with Thea. Buy the yarn and have it delayed for shipping to your new home.
If you buy yarn now then you will not get to buy the really cool yarn coming out for Christmas. Wait for cool yarn.
I guess you can tell that I do not knit. I admire people who do.
Buy the yarn. Now or later, buy the yarn.
Because yarn has to be knit or woven or in general used, it’s a really excellent purchase, containing in and of itself both immediate (yay yarn!!) and delayed (knit/woven/crocheted item!!) gratification. Buy the yarn.
Great purchase if you have an immediate need for it. Buy cool yarn now if you have a project; wait until after move to buy cool yard to hoard for “some day”.
Hahahah! I’m totally more the Thea Harrison type.
Buy the yarn. You need the stress release with all the hoops you are jumping through to get your dream home.
And both are great!!!! ?
Three kinds of friends. The third gives you a gift certificate to the yarn store. 🙂
SOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!!
This is why all of your friends are my favorite authors. Y’all are awesome. Good luck with the being responsible; it sucks sometimes, lol.
I say buy the yarn… you need a way to relax and nothing relaxes like good fiber.
Buy the yarn. Life always happens so make sure to give yourself joy in moments.
People line up to spend your money for you. You kids, your spouse, charities, utilities, the bank, the list goes on. I’m with Thea, buy the wool.
At first glance I wondered what kind of fancy yams you have down in the States…
That’s a good one. Loved it.
Depends on how much Whole Foods thinks they can get away with.
To get the yarn or not to get the yarn, that is the question (channeling a little Shakespeare right now).
Pros of getting yarn now: look at it, pet it, be happy you got it before winter sets in.
Cons of getting yarn now: moving yarn from one place to another, not using it right away, Gordon possibly running out the back door saying “yarn is a four letter word!”
Did you know yarn can be a swear word? It was in my family since my mom would buy so much of it she gave it away to a friend.
Hmm, depends on the options. Is there an equal urge to eat chocolate, drink margaritas, and buy expensive chandeliers for the new bathroom? In that case, buying yarn would definitely be the healthier choice. Just sayin’.
Thea rocks , love her books, love her advice buy the yarn and made Thea a scarf!!
LOL – oh that’s good! But make that 3 kinds of friends. “Expensive yarn? Hmmm – define expensive…”
As somebody onece said: “With great power comes great responsibility”! Having your own home/inn would give you the great power but responsibility? – That is learned not bought.
Having said that, just remember that with great responsibility can come great boredom unless you occasionally throw responsibility to the winds and indulge yourself in your cravings!
I’m sure you will make the right choice in the end. Hey! – You can always knit the wall coverings for that extra room!
Or…you could ask Santa.
We really need both kinds of friends in or lives – the kind sitting in the jail cell with us, and the kind who comes and bails us out – don’t we?!
If buying the yarn will make you happy & help you distress, then buy it!
If buying the yarn will make you momentarily happy, then be a source of guilt and added stress later, wait to but it until you close.
Either way, buy it!!!!! Just depends on when. ?
Okay – correction here. I meant de-stress, not “distress”. HATE autocorrect!!!
Life is short, buy the yarn!
That’s a good one. Loved it.
Well I’d be the “buy the yarn” friend, especially since my thought is if the yarn is on sale for less then $2 then it doesn’t count (in terms of what I’m buying). Which means when I go to my yarn store with a coupon for 20% off everything, I leave with at least 2 large bags of yarn….
Dang girl, how much yarn do you buy?
Umm “a lot.” I crochet blankets for Moffitt’s cancer center and at Christmas for nursing homes, so that accounts for quite a bit of my “sale” yarn. So about 24+ blankets a year (they are only 42″ by 42″ approx). I make dresses for my great niece. I also keep the “ends” and will do a scrap blanket once a year because it takes forever to make the “ball.” (You cut the scrap into 1-2.5 foot pieces and tie them together randomly and make a ball to crochet from. Then you crochet so that all the loose ends are on one side, so you have a fuzzy and a smooth side. Looks awesome and no ends to sew in, which I love).
My daughter “de-stashed” before she moved. She posted a picture of her new room when she got settled. It has a armoir full of yarn. So, even de-stashing doesn’t help a yarn addict. However, it is a “relatively” harmless addiction, compared to some. Buy the yarn. Running your fingers over it and squishing it in your hands is supposedly as de-stressing as petting a cat or dog.
I used to go broke buying books. I could never deny myself. Lucky for me I discovered the library or I’d be eating mac ‘n cheese everyday.
Once you become part of the Writer’s knitting Mafia you can never leave. If you try they leave a sheep’s head knitted out of horseshoe in your bed 🙂
Sorry should be horse hair darn auto correct.
Darling,
You have to leave something for your house warming. Your friends will want to celebrate your wonderful new palace just as much as you want to show them your favorite features. (ie The shiny new toaster over the bath,…)
Buy the house, throw a party, still get the yarn! Win, Win, Win!
Well, to play devil’s advocate and just ridiculously logical. You could potentially be moving soon- and if you do, you will be SO busy you will not have time to knit whatever item you are thinking that expensive yarn will be perfect for. By the time you get unpacked, organized, etc…. you will have a new item you will be hot to make, and have your eye on a different yarn(also probably expensive cause it’s so much nicer than crappy yarn). The confusion and guilt ferrets will chew you up and not allow you to enjoy the new project as much as you want to because the stuff you want to buy now will be sitting there, taunting you. Just let this expensive yarn go…..if you want it after the move, it will still be there. And you will enjoy it even more. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. 🙂
Solution: Buy the yarn after you move into the house, that way you won’y have to pack & unpack it.
Being “responsible” is highly overrated. Buy the yarn NOW…for it may be sold out tomorrow! Besides, it is lightweight so it won’t add much to the move.
Totally funny! People crack me up!!
Buy the yarn!!! YOLO!!!
In your new house, have 1 room for yarn. Just 1 room. 5henbyou can see it, touch it, FIND it whenever you need a yarn fix. And stash all your new yarn fixes, um, I mean purchses……. ????
Go Thea! Now that’s my kinda friend.
I third the comment to buy the yarn after the move. I do not know which is more stressful, buying a home or moving, but I suspect the latter. Minimize the amount of stuff you have to move. Then, when you getting tired packing or unpacking the nth box, you can triumphantly think “At least we don’t have to pack the extra yarn!”
Then, when the move is mostly complete, you can celebrate by buying yarn.
Go Thea Harrison!
Not moving yarn has its advantages, but didn’t you say there were two cool yarn stores close to the new house? You can give yourself treats each time you go to take care of something.
There is also the option of using Amazon’s handy Universal Wish List button to mark the yarn you would like to have so you can pick it now but get it for Xmas or other gift-giving occasion.
Life is too short. Buy the Yarn!
I’m the second kind, I don’t even have to know a person to enable them to buy yarn. I convinced a lady to buy a fleece she was waffling on at the recent fiber festival.
If you use the yarn for research purposes – Kate’s new hobby while pregnant. After all, Conlan will need a baby blanket – the yarn becomes a tax deduction.
The best kind of friend would buy the yarn for you. #LoveEnablers
Buy yarn after the move so you know just how much you need to fill up all the closets, nooks and cranies.
In the mean time look at yarn porn to get your fix.
I found something I thought you might enjoy…combining two things you like to do.
My mental author image of Thea Harrison from now until the end of time will be a chibi TH with little devil horns and bat wings fluttering over a cartoon shoulder. I will not be able to consume anymore of her fabulous works without laughing hysterically whenever I see her author photo. Definitely having a laugh over this one!