Yarn stash: How’s it going? Yarn purchases / leftover yarn / yarn diet

Dear users, dear authors,
how’s your yarn stash / leftover yarn going? Who has bought yarn and who is still on a yarn diet? Let me know.

Hi,

I’m still on a yarn diet.

I’m curious to see how much longer I can keep it up.

Every time I see yarn, I think, “You still have plenty of that.”

I have to say, it’s really easy on the wallet. ;-)

Best regards, Heike

I bought 1,000 g of acrylic yarn for a test knit. Nothing else.

I’m still on a “wool diet” too. It’s working great.

Yarn diet... What’s that? Can you eat it? ;)

No, I’m not dieting.
I’m still waiting for my Bobbel order, and sometime in the next few days I’ll head to the yarn shop to look for yarn for the cardigan I want to make. 

I stocked up on larger quantities over the summer and could actually make it last for at least two years. I haven’t bought anything since October, and I plan to keep it that way until spring (at least). 

I don’t really see why I should limit my creativity by desperately trying to save on yarn ;-)
If I need yarn for a project, I buy it—and that’s that. That said, I’m not one of those people who buys yarn “just because.” I almost never do that. When I buy yarn, it’s almost always for a specific project. My yarn stash actually tends to grow more from the leftover yarn from my projects that isn’t used again right away.

@ruthk :

I have so much yarn that I really don’t need to restrict myself at all. ;-)

Almost all of the yarn was originally bought for specific projects. Then I lost interest in the project
or something else came up, so I kept putting the project off again and again. Over time, huge amounts of yarn piled up.

It became so much that I completely lost track of it all. In the end, I had no
idea where I’d stashed all the yarn. I even found two boxes
of yarn in the attic that I didn’t even know I’d bought—and I couldn’t remember which
project they were for either.

After I’d sorted everything out and gotten an overview of it all, I thought,
“Okay, this is enough to open a yarn shop.” And I decided to work through my stash
until I really can’t reduce it any further.

Best, Heike

Heike, that’s exactly how it is for me, too. That’s why I don’t see any reason at all why I should buy new yarn again.

I have large amounts of one color in some cases, so I can keep working on that for quite a while longer.

I just bought some yarn because it was on sale—one clearance sale on sock yarn and one special sale on leftover yarn. But I already know what I’m going to make with it and have some rough ideas. Otherwise, I tend to buy yarn on a project-by-project basis. And with the leftovers, I make Amigurumi or toys, or small items—whatever works best to use them up. And whatever I can’t use, my yarn shop takes back, because the leftover yarn goes to workshops for people with disabilities, where they can still make great things with it.

I’m diligently sticking to my “yarn diet” :-)
I have quite a bit of yarn (too much, according to my husband), and I’m currently using yarn from my collected stash in a side project.