My family loves to tease me about it, but I'm one of those people who starts on Christmas early. REALLY early! Sometimes the week AFTER Christmas. I'm always thinking ahead, and if I'm out shopping in June and see something for my brother that's just perfect, and a great price, you can bet I'll buy it!
Believe me... shopping and crafting throughout the year makes the silly season a lot more enjoyable. It also makes it much more affordable.*
So when Love Knitting had a 70% off sale at the end of January, it's no surprise that was browsing with Christmas on my mind.
Sadly, the "print yarns" (the stripers with the exception of the greens) don't have nylon in them. But the solids do, and heels and toes are where you need nylon the most so they should be ok. Dad mostly wears his thick ones around the house anyway, so they get fairly light wear.
I won't be casting on for a while, but it's nice to know the yarn is ready for me when I do!
* The trick to this is to keep track. It's very easy to over-buy or misplace things if you're not careful. I collect everything in a large box, and I keep an excel sheet on my computer, where I track what I've got and for whom. I check in every month or so, and come October, I make a list of who I still need gifts for and try to finish things up before the end of November.
10 comments:
OH, GOOD GOLLY.....look at all that yarn!
You have a planner's soul .... I like that in a person.
(DH was one of the Master Planners for the company he worked for. LOL)
The colors you chose are such happy colors. Happy knitting!
Great catch for the sale yarn! I love to stock the stash!
You are so organized!! I used to buy gifts year-round as well, but for some reason I sort of stopped doing that the other year...and it was a real PITA this last season!!
*la la la la* you said the "C" word.
Great idea with the excel sheet. I'm going to have to do something like that. You seem to have the xmas stress down to a minimum ...
When I was still exchanging gifts with my extended family, I purchased gifts throughout the year which was definitely helpful in keeping within my gift budget.
Love all the yarn you purchased for gift socks!
Great Purchase! I couldnt agree with you more. I enjoy gift giving and to do it reasonably is a fun game for me. I've purchased 3 gifts for Christmas for next year, deeply discounted. Great post
I am so not organized to do that. I would lose something even if I tried to keep it organized! There is always one present I forget to wrap.
Yikes....now that's organization!
An Excel spreadsheet? Really?!? That's just too organized, but makes a lot of sense.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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