that's hilarious.

did you know that that's 52.4 miles of yarn?

lol.

very *very* awesome spreadsheet btw. :)

just to make you feel slightly better, i have 15540 yds (8.8 miles) of cherry tree hill sock yarn.

I have been way too frightened to actually inventory the stash closets. (See that plural there?) But maybe there's a way I can do it with the miracle of the Excel spreadsheet if I can figure out how to open it up--hee, hee, that ought to delay the process for a week or so.

Even without the inventory, I'm ready for the diet.

Kathleen
(katrog on ravelry)

Got yarn? :) That's a lot of knitting going on. I downloaded your spreadsheet although I'm scared to use it. Some things are just better left unknown.

You do realize that the unforeseeable future can be as short as a blink of an eye...just saying :)

Would be to open an ebay/etsy store, or offer special deals to your blog readership. There are always going to be new and interesting yarns out there. Moreover, you may have outgrown your passion for a certain kind of yarn which you are now surplussed with. Or perhaps you did an experimental dye/spin that wasn't quite to your taste but might be to someone else's? There's no need to remove yourself from the marketplace of fine fibers. Far from it! With taste like yours, you could be quite the merchant. Scratch the new yarn itch and make some scratch at the same time. Unless you absolutely couldn't part with a shred of stash....

That's awesome... My stash is crazy - I've been daunted by the task of possibly doing inventory on it - Especially now that I've joined Ravelry. This might make things a bit easier. :) I also like the idea of knitting from my stash, but I know I'm too tempted by new yarn to ever give it up. Oh well - there are plenty of worse addictions out there, right?
:) Katie
http://theknittingmama.blogspot.com

I don't know whether to feel sorry for you or slap you lol.

I have only two paper grocery sacks of yarn. So your predicament is foreign to me, but since I am on the other side of things, I have a few observations to make.

First is, why do you feel that your yarn is out of control? Are you going hungry to support it? Maybe dipping into the kids collage fund? NO? I didn't think so (grin)

So, if someone had oh, I don't know, say a classic car and they were fixing it up, nobody would think a thing of that, now would they? I wonder if they would think it was strange to have a metric set of wrenches, a US set as well as a few sets of each in socket sets. Oh and you would want breaker bars, and adjustable wrenches, plus all sorts of other stuff to get the job done. My point is, that if you are using it, it's not excessive. Besides knitting is lots cheaper than classic car renovation, one of those junked can cost as much as 25K, plus all the parts to make it not junk. That's a whole lotta yarn rationalization if you ask me.

I mean does anyone get out of bed one day and say "Gee, I've spent $1300 this year, and wasted hundreds of hours of my life watching movies and television? No, nobody would say that. Ok, well I would say that, but I freely admit that I am oddly turned.

My advice, go through your yarn, and see if you want all of it. Give what you don't love anymore to a local senior center or weaving class and forget about the diet thing. Your act of charity would be nice, and you could continue to enjoy shopping for yarn. For knitters that is part of the real joy of knitting, the acquirement, the collecting.

Or if your really serious about the diet thing, you could start collecting beanie babies or some other idiotic... ahem I mean interesting item.

I am a yarn and fiber collector. I don't have to use it, unless I want to. How many people do you know who MUST use the 50 china tea cups they have in the curio? Think about THAT!