If "smallificating the yarn stash" is one of your goals for the new year, here are some ideas to help you out. As long as you're not too picky about following "the rules."
1. Reclassify your yarn as something else
There are all kinds of things in your house that don't get counted as stash, like forks, or kitchen sponges. If you mentally categorize your entire yarn stash as an art project, say, or as home insulation, then presto: your stash is now exactly zero!
2. Give away the ugly stuff
I know you have ugly stuff in your stash. It's okay, we all do. Comb through your stash, pull out all the ugly nasty stuff you know you'll never use, and give it away. Drop it off at the thrift store, donate it to a knitting charity, or take it to a local senior center that has a knitting group. Someone will be thrilled to get your ugly yarn, and you reap the stash benefits.
3. Swap it
Set up a yarn swap with friends. This doesn't affect your bottom line, since you'll be bringing home as much yarn as you gave away. But the yarn you bring home will be new to you, thus resetting the clock. New stash is never as big a problem as old stash.
Non-knitters may think we're just running in place with this tactic, but knitters know the score, here.
4. Put it somewhere else
If yarn is only stash when it's in your house, start storing some of it in the trunk of your car, or in your filing cabinet at work. It may make you look like a crazy hoarder, but who's laughing when the apocalypse strikes when you're away from home, and you still have yarn at hand to knit with?
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