(May 7, 2021 at 11:55 am)Angrboda Wrote: And patterns of thinking about behavior persist even after the behavior is stopped. I'm a hoarder. For a number of years I had it under control. But returning to the behavior showed me that while I was not acting like a hoarder, my thinking and values hadn't really changed.
I get this. Though I am not a hoarder I have a thing where if I get one of a set of something, then I think I have to have the whole thing. For instance, if I read a book and like it I think I have to have every book in the series or every book by that author even if that one book was their best effort. There were a few things getting out of hand a few years ago but I am much better about it now. I have learned a little restraint though it wasn't an easy lesson.
Lately, since my passion for sewing returned, it's hard not to buy all the nifty gadgets that didn't exist when I was sewing a lot before. And there are a LLLOOOTTTTT of nifty new gadgets. While I have given in to buy a few things since my projects are different now, I have also learned that some of my old tools serve the purpose quite nicely.
Due to my previous "I have to have one of each" mindset, I have pretty much every color of embroidery thread there is. That comes in handy now and again but there's no one in my family who wants all this crap when I die. Know anyone who wants about a zillion buttons?
I'm your huckleberry.
