Am I A Hoarder?
By Morley Hunt
@Morleyhunt (21741)
Canada
February 13, 2017 5:52am CST
This morning @JudyEv suggested that I might be a hoarder. I told her that after making three quilts from a bin of scraps of fabric There was not a noticeable dent in the pile.
As a quilter I might be a bit of a fabricaholic, but I feel I'm more of a collector. My cupboard if full of colour pieces of cotton, just waiting for time and inspiration to hit at the same moment. When inspiration hits...I don't have time to run to the store for a piece of fabric, so it needs to be conveniently nearby.
As far as those scraps go.....I read once, all those scraps cost us the same amount as our yard goods. We wouldn't consider just throwing them away.
In my defence. In the last year I have used more fabric from my stash than I have purchased to replace it.
I don't think that I'm a hoarder....I just have a really nice collection of quilting fabrics.
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@LadyDuck (502539)
• Italy
14 Feb 17
@Morleyhunt 
This is what I think when I re-arrange my things, but they are not less, only more well arranged.
This is what I think when I re-arrange my things, but they are not less, only more well arranged.1 person likes this
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
14 Feb 17
I'm trying to reduce the size of my collection....some days I think I am making progress.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
22 Sep 17
And at the moment I'm being good. I'm using more than I am buying.
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
17 Feb 17
Your cabinet looks neat and tidy to me. I think that most hoarders are very disorganized.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
17 Feb 17
But that's only one shelf. I'm vain enough to take a photo of the neatest shelf.
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@Marilynda1225 (91116)
• United States
13 Feb 17
I wouldn't consider you a hoarder and from the picture all your fabric looks neatly organized. I love to browse all at the beautiful fabric when I go to Hobby Lobby but I never have a project in mind to buy any.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
I'm showing one shelf...I'm smart enough to make sure that it's my neatest shelf. I have three pantry units full.
I have three pantry units full.
@JudyEv (382216)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
I think your post puts me in a bit of a bad light - but that won't hurt me. 
When I was crocheting full steam I had bags of wool all over the place - all different plys, different colours. But most of it got used eventually. Woodworkers would have oddments of timber all over the place, spinners would have bits of fleece here, there and everywhere. It's what happens when you have a hobby.
When I was crocheting full steam I had bags of wool all over the place - all different plys, different colours. But most of it got used eventually. Woodworkers would have oddments of timber all over the place, spinners would have bits of fleece here, there and everywhere. It's what happens when you have a hobby.@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
It wasn't intended to put you in a negative light.....I just wanted to give you credit for making me think this through. When it comes to fabric.....I probably am just a bit of a hoarder.
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@JudyEv (382216)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 17
@Morleyhunt I think many of us are hoarders of items that are important to us.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
I would not consider you a hoarders. I would consider you a collector. You collector things that you are going to use. I wouldn't consider that hoarding.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
14 Feb 17
I'm probably borderline. I have thinned my collection and am trying to work my way through some of this lovely fabric.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Feb 17
Quilters and hoarders are two different people. I am more of a hoarder who aspires to be a quilter.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
I need to beat back my stash from time to time....wrestle my scraps down to manageable proportions......time to make another quilt.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
I've been in a hoarders house. There was a path through the living room....a path into each bedroom...a path through the basement...lit was crammed full.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
13 Feb 17
We bought a house once that was rented by hoarders.....if I'm a hoarder, they had a huge, colossal head start on me. It took five tractor trailer loads to move their stuff out of the three bedroom 1000 square foot bungalow.
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
13 Feb 17
No you are not.If you want to get rid of the quilts send them my way.
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
10 Apr 18
@Morleyhunt
If you need certain things around all the time then maybe it is for convenience purposes you have them around and not for the purpose of hoarding. Do you material throughout the whole place or in just one area?
