Dollar Tree to the Rescue

As a diabetic I have to take extra care with my injuries, especially on my feet. My guy is undergoing what seems like endless treatment for his skin cancer, and just last week got 16 stitches on his chest after they removed more of that. Tending to both of us with first aid products is getting expensive, so on my last trip to Dollar Tree I went to their first aid section.

This first comparison really annoys me, because I have been paying $3.99 for a box of 7 large Band-aids for a while now. 10 Curad bandages, while not waterproof and a little smaller, go for $1.25 at Dollar tree. I could buy three boxes of these for what I pay for one at Target and have, yep, money left over.

This is just a convenience buy -- a spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide, which will really help when I treat my guy's derm work, for $1.25.

We actually went to look for peroxide at Wal-Mart, and they were sold out of the $2.98 quart bottle. Dollar Tree had the same size for $1.25 -- another product I could buy almost three of for the price they want at Wally World.

I used this size bandage most often, and go through boxes of them while treating my own cuts. I usually pay anywhere from $4.99 to $6.99 at Target for Band-Aid brand; this one was $1.25 at Dollar Tree.

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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.

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