Today I took my Mum out to our local Spotlight store. I think it’s somewhat similar to Hobby Lobby or Jo-Anns in the US.
\nEvery January, Spotlight tosses all the discontinued yarns into a sale rack for $2 a ball. We’d been out there on the weekend, and I noticed a lot of Mum’s favourites were on sale. Now taking my Mum shopping is never an easy task. She’s on a pension, and generally has cash flow problems. So I called her yesterday and asked “Wanna go to Spotlight?” and of course she says “Maybe later in the month, I’m a bit broke” Fine, but later in the month there’ll be no yarn left in the sale bin. So I offer to loan her money, she says no. (No point offering to give<\/i> her money, she’ll refuse, so I just never call in the debt) Finally I convince her to come out just for a drive.
\nWe get there, and they have Angora Supreme for $2 a ball. I paid $7 a ball less than six months ago for the damn stuff. I show her, and she says “I don’t like that boring plain stuff!” and heads straight for the fun fur.
\nI convinced her to borrow \ud83d\ude09 some money from me, and she finally left the store with a bag full of fluffy acrylicy scarfy stuff. Sigh. She’s more than happy to knit fluffy scarves and little else, although she has branched out into fluffy baby sweaters and jackets. I gave her my stash of fluffy stuff a few months back, and she was in heaven, and couldn’t believe I didn’t want it. \ud83d\ude42 She’s knitting these scarves to try to make some money, and to try to quit smoking. It makes her happy.
\nHowever, I carried around a bag of Angora Supreme the whole time, and then I put it back<\/i> before we left the store. My guilt got the better of me. Here is my poor mother struggling to buy fluff, and I have enough yarn to outfit her forever, even if she doesn’t want it! I played with my stash when I got home instead. I am in awe of what I have collected \ud83d\ude42
\nI have yarn planned for 12 sweater projects, 3 scarves, 25 or so pairs of socks, 6 tanks, 3 pairs of gloves, 3 hats, 2 ponchos and 4 miscellaneous projects. I also have 23 lots of unallocated yarn.
\nI’m glad I put that yarn back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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