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12 Step Program for the Yarn-oholics

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk -- Thomas A. Edison



My stash remains stocked for the same reason I stock my fridge . . . it is never clear what I will want to make next.  (Famous words of anyone who has a yarn stash of a certain magnitude.)

A reasonably well accessible stash

 Somewhere I copied the 12 items below, I have no reference to offer.  These are not my words, and are shared with no offense to the 12 Step Program for serious addictions.  Having said that, there are times when some of us need an intervention to stop purchasing more yarn so that what is already in our possession can be used.   Perhaps these steps will help us.

 12 Step Program for Yarn-oholics

 Step 1 - Admit we are powerless over our addiction - that our stash had become unmanageable.

Step 2 - Believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step 3 - Decide to turn our will over to the care of a higher non-knitting power.

Step 4 - Make a fearless inventory of our stash.

Step 5 - Admit to ourselves and to other human beings the exact nature of our obsession with yarn.

Step 6 - Remain entirely ready to use our stash and remove all the flaws of our mistakes and knit away.

Step 7 - Humbly asked the higher Power to remove our shortcomings and control our impulses to purchase more yarn.

Step 8 - Make a list of all our stash we've ignored and become willing to knit it or donate it.

Step 9 - Make direct amends to LYS wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others and thus buy more yarn!!

Step 10 - Continue to take stash inventory and when we're overwhelmed promptly admitted it and turn our wallets and credit cards over to a non-knitter for safekeeping.  (My personal fav)

Step 11 - Seek through frequent conversation and personal meditation to improve our knitting skills and keep conscious contact with other knitters as we understood these skills, hoping only for knowledge of knitting techniques and the power to use up our stash.

Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to other addicts and to practice these principles in all our knitting affairs.

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  1. ruby2 October 2016 at 12:29

    love this

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  2. Addiction Recovery Steps25 January 2022 at 03:46

    Great post of the steps to recovery, highlighting what you should do for yourself and how it takes work. Thanks for sharing..

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