Kaz - yes, I certainly understand. I have my own stacks of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, plus a stack of 10 copies of Saveur magazine that I picked up at the thrift store for .25 cents a piece!
I use them all (made shrimp scampi on New Years Eve from a recipe in one of the Saveurs.) but I'm gonna have to figure out how I can store them so they're not falling all over the place...
Shoes. Shoes, sandals, boots, ankle boots... you name it. I've got a grand total of 31 pairs, of which many pairs look strikingly similar. Must do something about it.
books.
linen shirts: like candy's shoes....many of them look strikingly similar.
and i've got a scarf issss-yooo. just cannot pass up a new scarf/shawl/pashmina.
i live in the tropics for heavensakes. where/when do i wear scarves?
Bandicoot - that would be that week in late July when the nighttime temp plummets to 5 degress C. At uni we would all drag out the daggiest cardies kept from when we lived down south.
I've found another little clutter issue - cushions. Too good to throw out, not good wenough to sell, but no longer go with the decor. Have found another huge bag of them in the roof of the garage. The first bag is doing duty at children's parties around the neighbourhood for a speedier and less dangerous version of musical chairs - musical cushions. Unfortunately it lives at my place though.
When I was little I picked up the idea from something either heard or read somewhere that one "should" have a hobby and stamp collecting was a good hobby [could have been some Australia Post propaganda :-) ]. So of course, if one collection is "good" then surely more than one is "better". Eventually I ended up with a collection of collections - stamps, bottles, key-rings, baseball style caps... Some of these were effectively started by others on my behalf, along the lines of, "Oh, Laetitia has two interesting bottles - (insert leap of logic) - she must be collecting them; let's give her some more!"
The stamps went years ago to a charity that sells them to middle-men who buy old stamps to on sell. Most of the bottles also went several years ago to another bottle collector. During this last move I scanned articles from about 40 gardening magazines before giving them to a friend and gave most of my key-ring collection to another friend. I still have a few caps but am reconsidering even them (how many heads do I have?!).
My weaknesses now are craft activities, particularly album-making (I'm a dealer) and quilting (mmm, fat quarters...). I play the saxophone but I wouldn't call supplies for that "clutter" as I don't have a great deal of items (e.g. I don't stock up masses of reeds - they'd just go mouldy) and I keep my music fairly tidy.
I intend to keep the quilting in check by only buying material needed for the project at hand, not just because it's a lovely piece of fabric. That is unless it's a piece of fabric suited to a planned, but not yet in progress, project that is waiting for enough fabric to be started.
Of course, over the years there have been the common books and stationery weaknesses. I'm keeping stationery in check by getting DH (teacher) to store them with his school supplies and take them with him to his next post. DH has also been good at getting me to relinquish a number of books - he's got Buckley's though when it comes to the Terry Pratchett and L. M. Montgomery collections. :-)
Emily of New Moon is one of my favorite books, Laetitia. I actually like it better than Anne of Green Gables (though I like that one, too).
It's cool that you play the sax!
Thanks Claycat - yeah, I want to get the Mistress Pat (Pat of Silver Bush series) and the rest of the Story Girl books to read. Maybe I can make do with the library for those if they have them. :-)
I realised yesterday (while finding a place for the last lot of stuff out of a moving box) that one of my big weaknesses from years past is memorabilia (although I am getting better). I think it has something to do with retaining information. I'm keeping hold of a stack of stuff to place in my photo albums - sometimes just the info from calendars but also flat items like ticket stubs.
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