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I found a box while starting to clean up my craft room. It contained more yarn (*groan*) and some cross-stitch floss (of course, I'd thought I was done organizing it!).
Here's the big question for you organized cleaning types. Is it best to deal with things like this as they come up (in this case, stopping the overall cleaning and winding the floss onto bobbins) or set it in a pile to deal with later? Because on a lot of the organizational TV shows they seem to advocate the former, but that just makes me feel like I'm moving piles of crap around and I get disheartened quickly.
Mind, with the floss it wasn't such a huge deal, because it only took me about half an hour to wind it and get it properly put away. But a lot of other things I want to do take significantly longer, and I never seem to really complete the overall 'cleaning' - it gets messy again before I can finish. I dunno.
Starting out, this is what I had. If you look closely, here and throughout the pics, you'll see one of those knotted/woven bracelets that were so popular when I was in high school. Yes, I've had some of this stuff that long.
A bag of floss I had, probably for said bracelets. A lot of it was cheap, generic floss and didn't have numbers, but since I tend to wing it ("all it has to be is orange, this orange is good enough!") I wound it onto unmarked bobbins.
Some just couldn't be saved.
I bought this at a charity shop, $5 for the photo box, some silver thread, and TONS of floss.
And just when I thought I was done, I found some in a box (along with even more yarn).
Really done this time. My older floss box is so much better than my new one, with a real hinged lid instead of just a folding piece of plastic. But, considering how often I use it, I think it'll last awhile.
Now, I suppose it's time to get stuck back in and try to do a little more cleaning. Or I could just curl up under the blankets (it's finally chilly here! YAY!) and the end of the football game...
Here's the big question for you organized cleaning types. Is it best to deal with things like this as they come up (in this case, stopping the overall cleaning and winding the floss onto bobbins) or set it in a pile to deal with later? Because on a lot of the organizational TV shows they seem to advocate the former, but that just makes me feel like I'm moving piles of crap around and I get disheartened quickly.
Mind, with the floss it wasn't such a huge deal, because it only took me about half an hour to wind it and get it properly put away. But a lot of other things I want to do take significantly longer, and I never seem to really complete the overall 'cleaning' - it gets messy again before I can finish. I dunno.
Starting out, this is what I had. If you look closely, here and throughout the pics, you'll see one of those knotted/woven bracelets that were so popular when I was in high school. Yes, I've had some of this stuff that long.
A bag of floss I had, probably for said bracelets. A lot of it was cheap, generic floss and didn't have numbers, but since I tend to wing it ("all it has to be is orange, this orange is good enough!") I wound it onto unmarked bobbins.
Some just couldn't be saved.
I bought this at a charity shop, $5 for the photo box, some silver thread, and TONS of floss.
And just when I thought I was done, I found some in a box (along with even more yarn).
Really done this time. My older floss box is so much better than my new one, with a real hinged lid instead of just a folding piece of plastic. But, considering how often I use it, I think it'll last awhile.
Now, I suppose it's time to get stuck back in and try to do a little more cleaning. Or I could just curl up under the blankets (it's finally chilly here! YAY!) and the end of the football game...