GOODWILL has become a regular stop on our Saturday morning errand-running route!
We are OFFloading.
Others are acquiring.
It’s a beautiful balance.
Every time we make a dropoff, we feel great about actually making the choice to part with things we don’t need but others might find useful.
I know the thrill of stumbling upon a great thrift-store discovery and imagining people feeling that way towards my stuff makes it makes it easier to part with things I’ve been keeping for no good reason.
Goodwill popped up on the inCourage blog today with “Finding Thankfulness through a Thrift Store?.” The writer includes some excellent photos on how she transformed someone else’s junk into a treasure. Read it and be inspired!
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A small representation of my needle stash. Out of range of the camera are many, many more!
In other news, I discovered yesterday I have enough knitting needles to have 3 or 4 DOZEN knitters going here at one time. No joke. I am not taking these to Goodwill, though. I suspect there are little girls in my future who, like I did, will want to explore the mysteries of ‘knit 1, purl 2.’ (Perhaps several scout troops!) Okay, okay, this might be like hoarding the pressed pansies. Time will tell. Anyway, my needles and yarn are now straightened out, containerized and labeled….all the while I am pondering my next blog post, which I have been formulating in my head for quite some time and am still not sure how to word. It’ll come to me, in due time.
I’m still hanging onto my knitting needles too! I never quite forgot the feeling when my mum threw out my Oma’s knitting needles. I have a few of them, but would have treasured them. On the other hand I would just have more needles!
My 3 oldest granddaughters loved learning to knit although the one I thought would think it silly, took to it like chocolate sauce to icecream and the one I thought would love it, was quite stressed and needed permission to just put it down and chill! I took photos of them all with intent expressions of concentration.
And my sewing machine and sewing table, which although it has not been used much except as a storage surface for piles of casserole dishes. It is going up to the loft room where it will sit unencumbered and we’ll see if it gets used!
Wonderful, about the sewing table’s future and the anecdotes about the granddaughters! Thanks for sharing all of that. I enjoyed reading it.