Posted in Decluttering and Organization
I have two weaving looms in my dining room. Yes the dining room, because this is the largest room in the house and the least used room : ) Originally I had purchased the first one a very large 4 harness floor loom that is a beautiful homemade loom but it is about 49" square and quite a mammoth of a machine! A couple of years later a very nice elderly lady that had befriended me and was a very skillful weaver and artisan passed away and left me her Leclerc floor loom and a whole bunch of accessories to go along with it. Luckily hers was one that sort of collapses and takes up less space but none the less they still require a large amount of room.
Quite some time ago I decided that I really didn't need both looms and I wasn't doing any weaving at the time and couldn't see myself spending a lot of time doing it in the future so I listed the largest one in the buy and sell paper hoping that someone else was looking for one. Well there were no takers : (
I relisted and relisted it all the while continuing to drop the price lower and lower until I was just about giving it away. Still no one called and I gave up. Well in the spirit of decluttering and letting go of things that aren't sentimental or of some real importance I decided to give it away. I posted it on a couple of the yahoo homeschool groups that are in our area or nearby hoping that maybe this way I would be able to find it a new home. Well lo and behold the next morning I had 3 takers!! So we emailed back and forth and I shared photos of it and she decided the first one that had responded would take it. We arranged for a pickup day and it was set!
Monday morning I waited eagerly for her to arrive with her husband to come and disassemble the loom and load it in their vehicle to take home. I was really happy thinking of how nice it would be to reclaim that space in my dining room that had been occupied for the last 5 years.
Well they arrived and started to work on taking it apart and marking down where pieces came from so that they wouldn't have trouble putting it back together again and I started to feel sick.
As I stood there watching them work away at it I started to get panicky that maybe I had made a mistake! (Phase one) Maybe I should have kept it. Maybe I could have waited a little longer and sold it for a little bit of money. Maybe I needed it but just didn't know it yet. Maybe, Maybe, Maybe!! Oh, if they could have only read my mind. (Phase two) Okay, I'm past the panic stage now I'm rolling into the just let it go phase : ) Now I'm telling myself I don't really need it. I'm not going to be using it and I haven't used it for sooo long. She's going to love it and use it and give it a good home. I'm making the right decision. Just let it go, let it go!
Now you probably think I'm a real loony toon. LOL. As I think of it now I hope that I didn't have some strange vacant expression on my face as I worked out my inner dilemma : )
Well it was finally all packed away in their SUV and they were waving goodbye and I rolled into Phase three. I felt GREAT! I shut the door and looked at the open space it had created and I felt like a weight had been lifted off of me. I can't quite describe it but I felt like dancing! I couldn't believe how emotionally tied to me it had been but once I decided to let it go WOW, and I know that I made her day by giving it away to her.
A couple of days later as I was tidying up some stuff in the entrance I came across an envelope with my name on it and I had no idea what was in it. I opened it up and inside was the most beautiful thank you card that she had written to me and just left behind for me to find. How thoughtful of her : ) I know I made the right decision.
Blessings, BChsMamaof3
Quite some time ago I decided that I really didn't need both looms and I wasn't doing any weaving at the time and couldn't see myself spending a lot of time doing it in the future so I listed the largest one in the buy and sell paper hoping that someone else was looking for one. Well there were no takers : (
I relisted and relisted it all the while continuing to drop the price lower and lower until I was just about giving it away. Still no one called and I gave up. Well in the spirit of decluttering and letting go of things that aren't sentimental or of some real importance I decided to give it away. I posted it on a couple of the yahoo homeschool groups that are in our area or nearby hoping that maybe this way I would be able to find it a new home. Well lo and behold the next morning I had 3 takers!! So we emailed back and forth and I shared photos of it and she decided the first one that had responded would take it. We arranged for a pickup day and it was set!
Monday morning I waited eagerly for her to arrive with her husband to come and disassemble the loom and load it in their vehicle to take home. I was really happy thinking of how nice it would be to reclaim that space in my dining room that had been occupied for the last 5 years.
Well they arrived and started to work on taking it apart and marking down where pieces came from so that they wouldn't have trouble putting it back together again and I started to feel sick.
As I stood there watching them work away at it I started to get panicky that maybe I had made a mistake! (Phase one) Maybe I should have kept it. Maybe I could have waited a little longer and sold it for a little bit of money. Maybe I needed it but just didn't know it yet. Maybe, Maybe, Maybe!! Oh, if they could have only read my mind. (Phase two) Okay, I'm past the panic stage now I'm rolling into the just let it go phase : ) Now I'm telling myself I don't really need it. I'm not going to be using it and I haven't used it for sooo long. She's going to love it and use it and give it a good home. I'm making the right decision. Just let it go, let it go!
Now you probably think I'm a real loony toon. LOL. As I think of it now I hope that I didn't have some strange vacant expression on my face as I worked out my inner dilemma : )
Well it was finally all packed away in their SUV and they were waving goodbye and I rolled into Phase three. I felt GREAT! I shut the door and looked at the open space it had created and I felt like a weight had been lifted off of me. I can't quite describe it but I felt like dancing! I couldn't believe how emotionally tied to me it had been but once I decided to let it go WOW, and I know that I made her day by giving it away to her.
A couple of days later as I was tidying up some stuff in the entrance I came across an envelope with my name on it and I had no idea what was in it. I opened it up and inside was the most beautiful thank you card that she had written to me and just left behind for me to find. How thoughtful of her : ) I know I made the right decision.
Blessings, BChsMamaof3
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