What would happen to your stash?
This thread came across on Ravelry . . . What would happen to your stash if you died? (note: this is a YARN stash, people, not the other kind - lol) The woman who started it was on a boring drive home from a 300+ mile trip and wondered just what would happen to her yarn if she was in an accident and . . . well, you get the picture.
My thoughts went right to Squitchinglady who I wrote about here. Wonder if SHE has written a will leaving her beloved stash to someone who she knows would take care of it and use it in a good way. (that’s a picture of SOME of her stash there above.)
Nah, mine’s not in my will. I named the other things that were important to me - wedding rings, other special rings, charm bracelet, etc. THOSE things I named - but not the yarn. Hmmmm - guess I could think about it - but there are a lot of you out there who could step up and request. My girls would honor me by honoring your request. Yup, they would.
Not that I have that big of a stash - well certainly not as big as Squitchinglady’s. But, I have SOME yarn here and there (don’t forget to look behind my chair!)
I thought I might be adding a coupla balls today . . . but somebody beat me to them. Oh, well. That’s life. I’m sure it happened the way it was meant to happen.
But, you know . . . there is just something sad about going to a yard sale or estate sale and seeing someone’s yarns - there only because someone passed away or was put into a nursing home or something. They look all squished and forlorn . . . and the people selling them have NO clue of their intrinsic worth - that would be their worth to their owner, not necessarily to the new person fondling them.
And, even sadder is when those yarns don’t sell and they come into our shelter on donie day - scrunched up in between books that didn’t sell either.
They go to good use, though . . . but wouldn’t it be more fun to gift your stash while you’re still living and able to see the smiles on the recipient’s face? Yeah, I think so, too.
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