Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for August 08, 2022

indeed – as a hobby photographer, I got into the habit of collecting useless items beside buying things that i MIGHT need for some shooting ideas …… some day shrug

Absolutely!! One of these days, I simply must get into my watercolour supplies that have been in my cedar chest for the last 24 years…

Oh, look! GLITTER!!!

After my mother died, I threw away boxes of craft items for making costumes, dresses, and stuffed animals — appliqué items, sequins, buttons, and yarn, and packets of sewing patterns. My sisters didn’t want them, would rather buy stuff ready-made. Although, one sister slightly hesitated at the pattern that made her formerly much-loved Raggedy Ann doll.

Sort of like the exercise equipment that becomes a clothes rack.

Very true.

Substitute tools for craft items.

If the checkout person at Michael’s only knew when they say “Oh finished another project again?”

Funny! I’m just helping an acquaintance learn how to decoupage. . .and donating about three-fourths of my crafting supplies to the local library’s kids’ department. . .had my fun, now let them have some. . .

It is good to have a hobby or two…

Yes, yes they are.

Amen Auntie!

GLAD to see it’s not just me…this club i could join…the unfinished project club…♥ ♥

Auntie, maybe if you picked a hobby and stuck with it instead of trying to do every hobby at once it would be easier and cheaper.

I thought Aunty’s hobby was turning empty wine bottles into candle holders.

My hobby now is growing weed to help with my wifes pain.

The same goes for tools Aunty…

Oddly, I am in the process of tossing all those things I never used. Closets full. All going in the dumpster.

My hobbies are crocheting and knitting. I have so much yarn and yet when I go to a store that has yarn, I just have to go down the isle(s) and just touch the yarns. I look lovingly at some and think, “What could I make with that and for whom? Naw, I have no one to make things for.” Yes, I once did a charity knit for infants, but that bored me, because it was the same pattern in different sizes. I’m the type of person that wants something new each and every time.

Just figured that out, Auntie?

I have ADHD, so I flit from one hobby to another. My fabric stash and yarn stash combined could fill my bedroom. My mixed-media sculpture supplies are starting to get to that point. My paints, pencils, etc. really need their own cabinet.

And yet, I go to the charity thrift shop almost daily (my normal walk takes me past it anyway, plus AIR CONDITIONING!), and I check out the craft supplies, the clothes sales rack (Hawaiian shirts and anything with lace can be deconstructed back into fabric, you know), and anything wooden (wood is ALWAYS art supplies).

I can stop any time I want to!

Whoever dies with the most craft supplies wins!

I have a ton of beads and beading tools that I’m on the verge of giving away. By the time I got to the point where I had time to do anything with them, I had lost interest. It was an expensive lesson to learn. I guess the moral is, don’t buy anything like this until you’re actually ready to start doing it.

My Mother was the same way with cook books… she loved watching cooking shows and buying the cook books, but hardly ever cooked, and then served TV dinners or pizza, or some kind of Italian food in a can, like spaghetti-Os, or ravioli!.. We preferred it to what she would occasionally make with a recipe from one of the books!