Man, what stash!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=26 424
This person found a great sale and *overbought*?!? This isn't
overbuying; this is some kind of compulsive shopping behavior. I think
I've been behind this person in line at the checkout counter at one of
those stores where they ring up each skein individually. The mind boggles.

If the seller is on here, please tell me how much the shopping bags
weighed to haul all this home and how long it took to get through checkout.

--
Brenda
"Sometimes I'd sit and gaze for days through sleepless dreams all alone
and trapped in time." Tommy Shaw

How annoying is it when you're buying for a large project and they insist on
ringing them up individually?! I hate that! I just bought floss for a big
project: 60 skeins...all rung up individually! I felt sorry for the person
in line behind me...I even apologized for taking 15 minutes to check out!

Roberta

"Rhiannon" wrote in message
...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=26 424
This person found a great sale and *overbought*?!? This isn't
overbuying; this is some kind of compulsive shopping behavior. I think
I've been behind this person in line at the checkout counter at one of
those stores where they ring up each skein individually. The mind
boggles.

If the seller is on here, please tell me how much the shopping bags
weighed to haul all this home and how long it took to get through
checkout.

--
Brenda
"Sometimes I'd sit and gaze for days through sleepless dreams all alone
and trapped in time." Tommy Shaw

Seems all the big stores do that for inventory purposes. Drives one
crazy when buying any item in quantity having to have each item rung
separately......so far glad I've never been on line behind anyone buying
a big load of floss or items that need to be rung up individually but
I'm "guilty" of long waits.......
Did this recently when I bought 64 fat quarters at JoAnn's Superstore on
sale at a $1.00 each.
---
Lula
http://www.woolydream.com
Needlework Adventures

Roberta wrote:

How annoying is it when you're buying for a large project and they insist on
ringing them up individually?! I hate that! I just bought floss for a big
project: 60 skeins...all rung up individually! I felt sorry for the person
in line behind me...I even apologized for taking 15 minutes to check out!

Roberta

"Rhiannon" wrote in message
...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=26 424
This person found a great sale and *overbought*?!? This isn't
overbuying; this is some kind of compulsive shopping behavior. I think
I've been behind this person in line at the checkout counter at one of
those stores where they ring up each skein individually. The mind
boggles.

If the seller is on here, please tell me how much the shopping bags
weighed to haul all this home and how long it took to get through
checkout.

The Michael's near me just had a sale on DMC -- five skeins for a dollar.
Doing the math in my head, I could have bought 2550 skeins for $510 -- so if
you're bidding on this auction, I wouldn't go much over that.

I myself don't use ebay, but that kind of auction really makes me tempted.

Rachel

Rhiannon wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=26 424

This person found a great sale and *overbought*?!? This isn't
overbuying; this is some kind of compulsive shopping behavior. I think
I've been behind this person in line at the checkout counter at one of
those stores where they ring up each skein individually. The mind boggles.

If the seller is on here, please tell me how much the shopping bags
weighed to haul all this home and how long it took to get through checkout.

--
Brenda
"Sometimes I'd sit and gaze for days through sleepless dreams all alone
and trapped in time." Tommy Shaw

The major thing against bidding on something like this is the thought of
having to sort it all!

cw

"lula" wrote in message
...
Seems all the big stores do that for inventory purposes. Drives one
crazy when buying any item in quantity having to have each item rung
separately......so far glad I've never been on line behind anyone buying
a big load of floss or items that need to be rung up individually but
I'm "guilty" of long waits.......
Did this recently when I bought 64 fat quarters at JoAnn's Superstore on
sale at a $1.00 each.
---
Lula
http://www.woolydream.com
Needlework Adventures

Roberta wrote:

How annoying is it when you're buying for a large project and they
insist on
ringing them up individually?! I hate that! I just bought floss for a
big
project: 60 skeins...all rung up individually! I felt sorry for the
person
in line behind me...I even apologized for taking 15 minutes to check
out!

Roberta


Call me stash enabling, but if you had the complete line of floss then you
wouldn't have to stand in line in the store buying so much ;-) .... except
to flesh out the colors you needed for which your inventory was too low and
you needed more ...... You have to stand in line once, in a major way, but
once you do it, then you are set ;-) ........ Julie

On 3/15/04 9:54 AM, in article , "Julie"
wrote:

"lula" wrote in message
...
Seems all the big stores do that for inventory purposes. Drives one
crazy when buying any item in quantity having to have each item rung
separately......so far glad I've never been on line behind anyone buying
a big load of floss or items that need to be rung up individually but
I'm "guilty" of long waits.......
Did this recently when I bought 64 fat quarters at JoAnn's Superstore on
sale at a $1.00 each.
---
Lula
http://www.woolydream.com
Needlework Adventures

Roberta wrote:

How annoying is it when you're buying for a large project and they
insist on
ringing them up individually?! I hate that! I just bought floss for a
big
project: 60 skeins...all rung up individually! I felt sorry for the
person
in line behind me...I even apologized for taking 15 minutes to check
out!

Roberta


Call me stash enabling, but if you had the complete line of floss then you
wouldn't have to stand in line in the store buying so much ;-) .... except
to flesh out the colors you needed for which your inventory was too low and
you needed more ...... You have to stand in line once, in a major way, but
once you do it, then you are set ;-) ........ Julie


But only for so long, depending on how fast you stitch!
Cheryl

That really depends on what projects you do. I have an ancient UFO
which is a Care Bears character afghan stitched with all six strands. I
estimated it would take 20 skeins of some colors just for that project
so having one on hand wouldn't help much. Oddly enough, that is the
only project on which I used loop starts since I figured that would be
more durable and less lumpy.

Julie wrote:
Call me stash enabling, but if you had the complete line of floss then you
wouldn't have to stand in line in the store buying so much ;-) .... except
to flesh out the colors you needed for which your inventory was too low and
you needed more ...... You have to stand in line once, in a major way, but
once you do it, then you are set ;-) ........ Julie

--
Brenda
"Sometimes I'd sit and gaze for days through sleepless dreams all alone
and trapped in time." Tommy Shaw

LOL Julie...Enabler!!

Roberta

"Julie" wrote in message
...
"lula" wrote in message
...
Seems all the big stores do that for inventory purposes. Drives one
crazy when buying any item in quantity having to have each item rung
separately......so far glad I've never been on line behind anyone buying
a big load of floss or items that need to be rung up individually but
I'm "guilty" of long waits.......
Did this recently when I bought 64 fat quarters at JoAnn's Superstore on
sale at a $1.00 each.
---
Lula
http://www.woolydream.com
Needlework Adventures

Roberta wrote:

How annoying is it when you're buying for a large project and they
insist on
ringing them up individually?! I hate that! I just bought floss for
a
big
project: 60 skeins...all rung up individually! I felt sorry for the
person
in line behind me...I even apologized for taking 15 minutes to check
out!

Roberta


Call me stash enabling, but if you had the complete line of floss then you
wouldn't have to stand in line in the store buying so much ;-) .... except
to flesh out the colors you needed for which your inventory was too low
and
you needed more ...... You have to stand in line once, in a major way, but
once you do it, then you are set ;-) ........ Julie

By the time I checked, they were up to almost 19 cents a skein - with
shipping, this is becoming less of a bargain . . .