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Have I inherited the hoarding gene?
25 November 2013
25 November 2013
As Christmas approaches I have been busy making items for craft fairs. My friend and I do these stalls as it keeps us busy crafting in our spare time and we get out and about and meet similar people with similar hobbies.
Sometimes we even sell some!
I have been making teddy bears for years. My bears are similar to the Steiff style bears, they are all fully jointed head arms and legs and weighted as well. Each takes about ten or more hours to make and so I set the selling price at about £25 to £35. School fairs are not the right platform for items such as this. Firstly the kids do not have that much money and secondly the bears are not toys.
I needed something I could make quicker and therefore sell cheaper. Hence I now make sock animals. Sock animals are brightly coloured and cheap to make and they all can be made different.
So every time I go out to the shops I feel the urge to buy socks. Wild, whacky and zany socks. Cheap and cheerful. I then sock animal them. The problem then is that I stockpile them and now I have boxes of socks. To be fair they are in and out pretty fast but I am still buying faster than I can convert them.
from this
from socks above to this.
I do not see the sock hoarding as an issue (but then Imelda does not see any of his hoarding as an issue). I do have a few too many socks I agree but then there are five people (ten feet) living in my house so they will all get used even if they do not get turned into monkeys or aliens.
For once I am now busy doing something other than clearing. I am enjoying it. This is therefore only a short blog as I need go and make some more as if I don't go and do something with my socks they will take over my house.
2 comments:
IMHO, you have a sock stash, not a sock hoard. You acutally get around to carrying out the plans you have for them. And someday when you no longer make sock dolls (they're adorable, by the way), I suspect you will have no issue getting rid of the socks that no one in your family will use. There lies one difference as I understand part of the hoard vs. clutter.
Regarding the hearing aid, I hope this one works out. It's possible he lost the last one on purpose because either it wasn't working for him (painful? too much screeching feedback?), and didn't want to go back and get adjustments made or learn to use it properly. Or it worked too well and he lost his excuse for not listening. Either way, there have been many improvements in the last 17 years.
I am hope you are right. I would be very relieved to know I have not inherited that gene from him! The animals are going fast as well so that is good. None hang around for too long.
I totally agree with your comments about the hearing aid. The truth will come out no doubt with this new one.
Thank you for your comments :)
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