It's That Time Again

Ten Things I Do Not Want for Christmas

Anything Cute, Pink, Yellow or Sparkly: I can't be polite about this anymore. Also, I'm almost 60 and I should be exempted from cutesy stuff now. Please make a note of this.

Christmas Decor: How much don't I love the holidays? Hint: I didn't unpack or put out anything that I already own this year.

Clothing: I pretty much live in T-shirts and leggings now. Have plenty. Also? Everyone forgets that I'm 40 lbs. lighter now, and the XL stuff looks like I'm dressing in a garment bag.

Covid-19: Duh.

Exotic Teas: I love tea, and everyone knows it. Of course this means they go out and find the weirdest teas to gift me, like the one to improve my blood pressure (honestly, tasted like dirt) macha green (horribly bitter) and chocolate orange something (I can't even.) Let me buy my own teas, I beg you.

Fabric: I still have enough to last me until I'm deceased. My only new year's resolution is going to be not buying any new fabric in 2021.

Gifts in a Jar: There are some people who think it's wonderful to layer ingredients in a mason jar, tie a reipe card to it and call that a gift. Alas, I'm not one of them. Exception: if the stuff in the jar is already made/ready to serve, then that's fine. Oliver's mother makes me delicious apple butter, for example.

Kitchen and Cooking Stuff: Operate with these two facts here: I already own it, or I would never use it.

Pain Creams: None of them work for me. Not even the one made from emu fat that everyone raves about.

Sweets: I spent two years resolving my T2 diabetes. There is zero sugar in my diet to keep me healthy and off the meds. Help me stay that way.

What don't you want for Christmas? Let me know in comments.

Comments

nightsmusic said…

I don't really want anything. I told my girls if they insisted on getting me something, to give a donation to an animal shelter for me. I'm good with that.

December 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM

Downsizing

This was my fabric stash once I sorted everything -- 22 full bins. I spent a day taking out and boxing up what I could part with, with the goal of trying to reduce it by half, so I'd have 11 bins. I was very strict with myself, and removed everything that for one reason or another I was sure I wouldn't be able to use. This is what I ended up with -- 12 bins of fabric that I'm keeping. It's not quite half, but close enough. Half of what I took out went to a local quilter friend, a school and Goodwill. These four tightly-packed bins will be going to the local quilting guild once I make arrangements with them for a drop-off place. I am relieved and a little sad and now determined to control my impulses to thrift more fabric. I don't want to do this again, so until I use up six bins, I can't for any reason bring any new fabric into the house.

In Progress

I promised myself I would show you the good, bad and ugly of my cleaning this year. This is what it looks like when you dump thirty years' worth of stashed fabric on the floor -- and oy, what a pain in the butt to pick up again! This is what it looks like after it's been sorted, folded and placed in containers, which took me about a week. Now the hard part is to downsize my stash by at least half, I think (that's my goal, anyway.) I've already e-mailed the president of the local quilting guild, a local friend who is a quilter, and a public school art teacher I know to see if I can donate some of the excess to them. The rest will go to Goodwill. Already I've reduced my vintage textiles from two bins to one, and my scraps from three bins to one. It's probably the hardest clean-out I've done, which is why I saved it until last. I know I have too much fabric, more than I can use in my lifetime -- but at the same time, I love it. So I have to

Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

Valerean

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