What tat are you trying not to buy??

AutumnLeaves24 · 21/10/2024 18:49

Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 20:30

Crafts have a lot to answer for. 3 years ago I had a small cloth drawer set for my hooks and yarn.

Now I have a 5x5 Kallax 🫢

It breeds!!

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Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 20:31

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 18:31

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Plywood is for a bauble tree base.

Level is for a photo wall I forgot I was doing.

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Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 20:30

Crafts have a lot to answer for. 3 years ago I had a small cloth drawer set for my hooks and yarn.

Now I have a 5x5 Kallax 🫢

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Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 20:28

@AutumnLeaves24 🤣🤣🤣

I visit the tip frequently. It’s embarrassing 😱

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SpunkyKoala · 20/10/2024 18:58

Ruthietuthie · 20/10/2024 16:09

Thank you, @BunnyLake. It's a historic neighborhood in the middle of a big city, so children from all over the city come here. Last year, my next door neighbors gave out two sacks (like the size of a large sack of potatoes) full of treats. We set up a stand in front of our house offering treats for children and cocktails for accompanying parents. Last year we served Mint Juleps. The whole neighborhood gets involved.

@Ruthietuthie have you tried reclaimed stone yards they may not be gravestones but you could repurpose slabs as grave stones?

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 18:31

Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 13:45

Bollocks.

Bought the kit. Plus a laser level. And some plywood for a Christmas decoration idea I saw.

FFS.

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AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 18:10

EffinMagicFairy · 20/10/2024 11:27

Quite liking some of the crochet Christmas decorations that keep popping up, very tempted but never done crochet, attempted knitting which never got completed, did complete cross stitches. Thinking crochet will take me away from mindless scrolling in the evening and stop me making bigger purchases of stuff I don’t actually need. A crochet Christmas Tree decoration is within my attention span.

Start with a granny square!!

Zebracat · 20/10/2024 18:10

@ruthietuthie Excellent, just don’t overdo buying the craftsupplies. I’m quite jealous actually, all we have is a pumpkin.

Getitwright · 20/10/2024 17:54

I had an absolute win during lockdowns…….those (really nice) jigsaws I brought home from Mum’s did at last get done🤩 So therapeutic at the time and we did actually frame a fabulous Yorkshire Grand Depart one, it’s in attic which is our fitness/bike den. But they are back under the spare bed now……….but the dark nights are back, TV is rubbish……….🤔
I’m a crafter as well, soo many different things to try, wool in every room, I have a sort out every now and then. Never bored though. OH, he’s been pickling onions today…….I kid you not🤣🤣🤣🤣

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 17:49

Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 10:58

For context I sew, knit, crochet, have macrame stuff, paints, also tools as I like DIY.

I love crafty stuff but also like very little clutter. Two halves of my brain are competing.

I understand that.

my solution is to have a storage space that I am happy to designate to 'supplies' and if it fits in there, fine, if not something has to go 🤷🏻‍♀️

Needmorelego · 20/10/2024 17:48

@AutumnLeaves24 yes this thread is confusing me. What people are describing as "tat" is not what I thought tat was meant to be.
People are just describing normal "things" 🤔

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 17:47

Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 10:56

I suppose I mean things I absolutely don’t need, and will clutter up my house but I’m drawn to them. It’s not necessarily bad or junk - just I know that it’s a short-lived or unnecessary nonsense for me.

Notebooks - not tat in and of themselves but I have a whole shelf of pretty unused ones already.

Painting kit - not intrinsically tat but I will do it then have to find somewhere to put it.

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BigSkies2022 · 20/10/2024 17:42

Moleskin notebooks are NOT tat! I have used the week-per-double page A5 format for years. DH buys me one each Christmas, and I am accumulating a nice backlog of filled ones. Daily use, year ahead planned, brilliant things. I do throw out the little sheafs of stickers that come with them though, as life is too short to work out a system for using them that would make planning easier.

But I am trying not to buy ANY of the other tat. I have a dream of a more minimal life, in which everything I own is perfectly fitted for its precise purpose, and I skim lightly through the world. My specific challenge at this point is trying not to top up the Christmas lights and decorations excessively.

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 17:39

movingonok · 20/10/2024 10:40

Christmas wrapping paper. I have bundles of the stuff in the attic, I have no need for more but Cox and Cox etc keeps making me look at stuff

If you like it & can easily afford to buy it (no underfed children!!😂) just donate the other rolls to a charity shop in plenty of time for Christmas. 🤷🏻‍♀️

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 17:33

Journeyintomelody · 20/10/2024 10:12

Im always tempted by a pain by numbers set, moleskin notebooks and cross stitch pattern?!
Currently trying to stay off vinted however DD has just had another growth spurt - put her in a tartan Christmas dress this morning so she can get some wear out of it. It will probably be too small by December. A Strava subscription is tempting but unnecessary (I just want to see my stats!!). Also since the weather has changed I want to buy and eat copious amounts of food...not exactly tat but will be avoiding all supermarkets when hungry. DD has to go in fancy dress for Halloween, I managed to avoid spending money on a costume will wear once, however, Christmas pyjamas are too hard to resist...

Yeah but plenty of Christmas PJ wearing after Christmas! And if you buy them in a generous size after they're about 3 you can get a good couple of winters out of them. No different to non Christmas PJ's.

AutumnLeaves24 · 20/10/2024 17:25

Merryoldgoat · 20/10/2024 10:01

Following on from last weeks ‘what’s pissed you off today’ thread, today I’m asking ‘What tat are you trying not to buy?’

I keep seeing paint by numbers kits on Facebook and I think today I’ll succumb 🧐

Been trying to resist as clearly it’ll never be worth displaying but I have zero willpower so watch this space…

'Tat' is subjective.

I wouldn't call a 'paint by numbers' 'tat'. I'd class it as an activity I wanted to do. The point of it being the activity, not the result.

if I wanted 'A piece of Art' I'd buy a piece of Art I liked, by someone talented 😂

I don't call notebooks 'tat' either.

Ruthietuthie · 20/10/2024 17:17

@Zebracat, this is such a good idea. And yes, this is definitely something it would be fun (and quite easy) to make. We have a pumpkin carving party for the whole neighborhood next weekend. The neighborhood provides the pumpkins and warm apple cider (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and all the pumpkins that are left in the park are lit each evening until Halloween. I think we could definitely add a craft activity and that many people would be interested. And I would much rather make something that lasted rather than buy something flimsy.

VimtoVimto · 20/10/2024 17:12

I knit and am generally happy with what I knit but I have probably enough yarn to last me 15 years so am trying to restrict what I buy. I’m addicted to trying other crafts I see on Instagram but that usually means buying a kit, deciding my efforts look nothing like what I imagined so shove it in a cupboard. I currently have felt on order to make Christmas decorations to give as presents.

When I retired I decided to get back into dressmaking but it costs a fortune to make something that looks decidedly homemade and not in a good way.

BunnyLake · 20/10/2024 17:02

Ruthietuthie · 20/10/2024 16:09

Thank you, @BunnyLake. It's a historic neighborhood in the middle of a big city, so children from all over the city come here. Last year, my next door neighbors gave out two sacks (like the size of a large sack of potatoes) full of treats. We set up a stand in front of our house offering treats for children and cocktails for accompanying parents. Last year we served Mint Juleps. The whole neighborhood gets involved.

Sounds amazing!

000EverybodyLovesTheSunshine000 · 20/10/2024 17:01

Supplements. More of them.

GoldenLegend · 20/10/2024 16:58

Anything Halloween including chocolate which I would eat myself.

Anything Christmas until December.

Happyinarcon · 20/10/2024 16:57

Ruthietuthie · 20/10/2024 16:00

Definitely tat. I REALLY want to buy some tomb-stones for our front garden. We live in an area (in the US) where a lot of the neighborhood decorates for Halloween (and where upwards of 5000 children come trick or treating on Halloween evening). I can't find any that aren't cheap, nasty, made of painted foam... and don't want these, as I want something I can bring out every year. But I also know that REALLY I don't need these things. My little boy wants to decorate, and it would be fun, plus our front garden would be perfect for this, but I am trying to resist.

I made some cardboard tombstones with my kid and her friend on a play date. It was a fun activity and they looked surprisingly good, but Halloween decorating is a bit half arsed in my neck of the woods so I understand if diy won’t cut it in your neighborhood

GoldenLegend · 20/10/2024 16:55

purplebeansprouts · 20/10/2024 10:59

Not helping!

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Buy it! Seconded. You deserve it.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 20/10/2024 16:51

Nogaxeh · 20/10/2024 15:33

Anything and everything to do with my hobbies. I already have enough stuff to probably last me a lifetime, but I have to struggle against the compulsion to buy more.

I have more than 25km of yarn. It takes me at least a month to use up 400m in knitting. I therefore have a minimum of five years of knitting already in the house. And that's just for knitting.

But look at these colours. Aren't they gorgeous? I don't even know what I'd knit with them, but they are lovely and I want them. Ugh. Buying compulsion is so bad.

Some things you just get out, look at, think about - & put them away again until next time.

I have a lot of those.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 20/10/2024 16:47

VimtoVimto · 20/10/2024 16:36

It sounds like my husband. He’ll ask why I need it and will I use it. It was a lot easier before he WFH.

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Mine's just retired. Now I have to explain all the ebay parcels, instead of just hiding them while he was at work.😂