You know, you see something in a magazine and either keep the whole thing or pull out the pages that you want to keep?
Do you then use them? or remember why you wanted to keep that particular copy?
I've just been going through my hoard! and realise that most I have never used nor am I likely to use but some, thank goodness, I have actually made use of!
I even bought a box years ago, to keep them in! and then the box went in a cupboard and that's where it stayed!
The one's it appears I never use are the recipe ones.. you know that gorgeous apple/pear/ peach/ blackberry tart/pud/crumble/pie or the casserole/ pie/ pizza that you never make but does look so delicious on the page!
Don't get me wrong I've made fruit crumbles etc but I've never gone in search of the recipe above in order to do so!
I one's I have used have been the wallpaper seen in a room setting, the fabric made into a blind, the page above shows my kitchen blind in the large photo. It can take a few years before these things happen but they have happened.
We used this photo to make a plate rack to suit our kitchen when we moved here.
This is the front door photo I saved with a view to having something similar when we finally change the front door later this year!
So it's not all been in vain , I have used some of the things I've saved but even now when I should be emptying the box of all the unused never likely to be used , I'm thinking that tart looks yummy maybe I'll keep that one! So in another eight years I can find it and think about throwing it out again !
It's a bit like all those clothes we keep in case we'll fit back into them !, they'll come back into fashion ! Their too good to throw away/ give away... you love them!
The same with fabric, wool, etc. Can one be cured? or can one cure ones self? or at least curb the worse of this habit?
Don't ask me! I'm sitting here with a box of eight year old recipes and a pile of magazines that I just need to check before I put them out in the recycling in case there's a recipe, fabric or room setting etc I need to keep!
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Oh yeah - me too. I have dozens of pages pulled out from magazines, newspapers and more recently printed off the computer. A few I have used, most I have not but as you say once you think about throwing them out you decide you might use them in the future.
ReplyDeleteSomething I have also collected is scraps of fabric - I've used the bits I needed and for a long time held onto the trimmings. I know they're never going to be used and are currently sitting in bags 'on their way to the bin' but when I pass them I have to resist the temptation to save them again!
As for wool - we won't go there!
Glad to know I'm not alone! lol I have managed to get rid of the scraps of fabric or tiny ends of wool that I used to keep just in case!! :)
DeleteI used to.... put Pintrest takes a lot less room!
ReplyDeleteI now have too many recipe books - known to the family as my food porn. Wish they'd stop making books that are half family history half recipe, like the ones by Tessa Kiros - I'm a sucker for them!
Oh I do pin interest too! Just another place to put a load of files of photo, I add to them but rarely go back and look through those files!
DeleteOh yes, and hundreds of dolly clothing patterns I'll probably never use. I might use some, so I have to keep them all because I have no idea whih ones I WILL use.....
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I forgot the knitting patterns, dolls and people and the sewing patterns... never used BUT...
DeleteOooh! and wool, like Rosie and I don't have her excuse as my knitting is nowhere near as good..... then there are dolls.....and.....
ReplyDeleteI love wool, I have managed to stop buying it for a while....
DeleteI have a stash of 1:12 handicraft tutorials - some recipes - of course a large fabric cemetery - oh and socks wool, as there are so many lovely patterns, only I can't knit half as fast as I can buy wool...
ReplyDeleteBut my mum owns a whole wall of "food porn" and she never uses the recipes, she looks at the pictures and decides she might cook something similar, that can turn out quite different (but always delicious).
I have to agree, I cannot knit nor sew as fast as I can buy wool and fabric at one point it would have taken me a couple of years to get through the stash of wool I had, before I sold some..
DeleteThat's a good way of referring to food photo's and recipes .. food porn..
Oh yes, me too. I have piles of Doll Magazines, I have an even bigger pile of Dollshouse magazines, I have mags that I picked up in the US and couldn't bear to part with...even though I no longer look at them, but you just never know do you? I have recipes pulled from other magazines, I have cross stitch patterns, dolls clothes patterns, knitting and crochet patterns....oh my goodness the list is endless, near as endless as the pile of stuff that I've kept!
ReplyDeleteBut I'm glad to see that I'm not alone!!!!
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It seems we are all the same, magazines on our hobbies and things we love and never able to part with item just in case!!
DeleteYou are not alone Sharon, it appears we are all the same... :)xxx
Ah, if only I'd stopped at the dolls' house MAGAZINES and hadn't taken on the actual houses - but they are my secret pleasure and will NEVER tell how many the 'just one' has turned into....
DeleteOne can never have too many dolls houses, well unless you downsize like me and just don't have the space ! Wish I'd at least kept my daughter Courtney's dolls house instead of letting her sell it :( mind you I still have my half finished one and a few treasures of dolls and furniture and I still look and am tempted... :)
DeleteMy whole home/garage is full of things (clothes, teaching aids... and I've been retired now for years, new toys purchased for non-existent grandchildren, gardening tools that I can no longer use, crafty knick-knacks that can't be displayed due to lack of room/space, paperwork, that I'm not even sure if it needs to be kept etc.) being kept 'just in case'...all crammed in amongst the 'far too many' Sasha Dolls and their wardrobes, props and toys... that it's a wonder that there is even room for ME to live here!
ReplyDeleteSee the problem is if you have somewhere BIG to hide things and especially if they are not in the house.. the keeping is endless!!
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