That is the funniest picture ever of Bob (who is, of course, the most photogenic cat I've ever seen).

OMG such Bob-a-licious cutness... Laurie you really need to put a warning in the title when you do that!

hmmmm.... must resist urge to buy mass quantities of plastic totes..... Must. Re. Sist.

I always swore I would never have a stash, because it seemed so silly to have yarn "just in case". Ha. Now I have two very full bins, and need to buy at least two more.

:) Yes, you do put them in the extra expensive super-duper zip top bags BEFORE putting them in the bins. That way, when you're searching through your yarns for inspiration for you next project, you can removed them all from said zip top bags and pile them next to the bins.

Oh, and don't forget to put the occasional WIP in a baggie in the bin, so that when you need *exactly* those needles, you can hunt through the entire mess to not find them.

Bob's cute, but my heart belongs to Soba.

And Johnny Depp.

Dishes? Laundry? nope - finishing the shawl, buying more yarn so one doesn't have to use up the stash! YES!

I believe I can knit the family through a nuclear winter... but it's all stored nicely - except the books and magazine.

I have a gorgeous plastic bin which contains my stash, and I could spend hours going through and contemplating my stash.....you are not alone CAP!

But shouldn't the yarn be able to breathe? Will being sealed in plastic bags and bins somehow damage it? Or am I just projecting my claustrophobic tendencies?

And tacky orange yarn? Over here, Laurie! It's one of our college's school colors!

At least Target was having a sale on clear plastic containers!!

Okay, I realize this will sound way too geeky, but I can't resist (I once wrote a book on linen storage!)

In the zippy bag question, the two things to consider are fiber content, and possible ambient temperature changes in the room where the bins are being stored.

Acrylic? Fun Fur? Any variation on a hefty bag? Zip to your heart's content. But organic fibers (wool, cotton, linen) need to breathe a little bit for long term storage.

If the bins are going into a room where the temperature goes up and down a lot (a spare room that is a jillion degrees when no one uses it and at a more human level other times, or an area where the climate control goes on and off a lot, or in my case, my attic which is 100 degrees in summer and 50 degrees in winter) you would be better off without the zippy bags, or you could use the zippy bags for organizational purposes but not zip them closed. You can get moisture in weird places from plastic enclosed organic fibers, and where there is moisture there might eventually be mold.

Think what happens when you buy a loaf of bread in the AC'd store and throw it in the back of the jeep for the hot drive home - moisture (condensation) inside a plastic bag. Your yarn does not want that to happen.

I will stop being geeky now... at least on your blog...

And yes, Bob is cute :-)

Have fun sorting and petting...

I *heart* The Bob!

I love containers of all shapes and sizes. Now I must visit Target. I hit Wal-mart yesterday and resisted the cotton yarn on the clearance rack because I didn't like the colors. But I did like the feel. I didn't smell it.

Do you use moth balls/cedar when storing?

OMG...Bob T. is sooooooo cute. I rescued a kitten about a month ago and he looks just like Bob T. Cat. I have a question for all you cat owners. This kitten is tearing my furniture to sheds. I got him a scratching post but he likes the furniture better. What is a mom to do? I really hadn't thought of declawing him but what are my other options...besides knitting is a real chore with this kitten wanting to play with my needles... I sneak around him when I see him sleeping and get my needles so that I can knit in peace. I can use all the advice I can get.

As someone who has plastic containers full of yarn under her bed, I can relate.

You really should produce a calendar of your cat pics, I would so buy it! Baby Bob is too cute!

I'm still trying to figure out when exactly the yarnstash goes awry.

See, the real trouble starts when you argue with yourself whether it is "okay" to use two different styles of ziploc bags and whether it is okay to use multiple bins if they don't match. This is when you really break down and decide that some stuff can stay in the extra big knitting bag, the pretty stuff can go in the bins, and everything remotely on your radar for knitting in the next decade must be toted around. (Not that that's what I did yesterday or anything.)

Oy! You just reminded me to finish entering the inventory I did last weekend into my spreadsheet. Phooey on you! :P
=:8

That was SO me this weekend!
Except that since I have banned myself from the Target due to previous budget busting excursions, I took my dogs with me to Longs (Rx pick-up)and left them in the car so I would not stay inside for too long.(still spent over $50 though grrrr)
Then I sorted yarn into clear plastic boxes, while my laundry (sorted but unwashed) was again ignored.
My co-workers noticed the clothing change since I'm into the bottom of all my drawers...but my yarn and I are very happy now.

p.s. I posted a pic of my front yard on me'blog should you want to peep.

mmm...kiss that belly!

linda, imho, declawing is a terrible thing to do to a cat. get some kitty nail clippers and trim the front ones. i've noticed that Stella the Menace Cat stops using her claws altogether after i clip them.

of course, it takes some getting used to. for both of you.

Look at that kitten belly and that full extension....it must feel great!

Oh, Bob! The orange kitties are the cutest (says an orange kitty mom...) Linda, good luck... Apparently putting clear tape, something called "Sticky Paws," or bitter citrus scents on your furniture will dissuade the scratching, and I'm told it may take some shopping around to find the desirable scratching post. (I just gave up and bought slipcovers...)

Oh my god, the CUTENESS!

I am going through serious kitten envy these days. I have the two (very large) adult kitties...but a kitten! Gah!

Linda -

Here's a great website with Cat Care info -
http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/our_pets_for_life_program/cat_behavior_tip_sheets/destructive_scratching/

I used to work at a shelter in my home town, this is the handout we'd give folks to try to prevent declawing. We actually denied adopters who said they were going to declaw (if they didn't seem interested in other options).

Hope this helps!

Sorry that link was so long, maybe you can still scroll over to get it all..

If not, just go here and search for destructive scratching and you'll get to that handout.

http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/our_pets_for_life_program

hee heeee... you said "scrutinize balls..."

linda:

couple of suggestions : citris spray (i.e. bath and body works) cats don't like orange/lemon/limey smells - spray where he scratches

and buy some cat nip spray and spray scratching post - make sure you have two kinds of post - one of my cats like a carpeted one, the other the twiney-rope.

good luck, and declawing is not cool - but some vets now will cut the "claw out" tendon - leaving the claws, but not allowing the claw to be extended. Only problem with this is you have to be diligent and trim the claws as they grow out of the toes.

MUST KISS SPECKLED BELLY...

About two weeks ago, I spent two days organizing just my knitting NEEDLES! I sewed a straight needle holder (pattern in Stitch 'n Bitch book) and decided to put the circs in ziplocks (labeled in a rainbow of sharpies) and filed by size in a pretty new accordian file folder. Then I had to organize the LIST of my knitting needles and all my patterns and info into a pretty new binder - with plastic protective sheets for all.

Next weekend - onto the actual yarn...

I love Baby Bob!

How did you describe me so well, when you don't even know me? I have plastic bins, baskets for "current" stuff, and XL ziploc bags for under the bed. I'm thinking of moving my kids into the garage so I can store yarn in their bedrooms.

I am also a fan of the big plastic tubs from Target. Somehow if I hide my stash in the closet, I can pretend that it's not taking over the house.

Cute Bob picture! I love it when you post cat shots.

I'm glad Drew said it first... 'cuz I was thinking it.

I was just eyeballing a few clear plastic totes at Wal-mart the other day, wondering which ones would be best for which yarns.

Love baby Bob T. Cat.

It looks to me that Bob was doing his version of the early Marilyn Monroe nude calendar pose...kitty pr0n, as it were.... :)

MBT - you are just a wealth of knowledge, aintcha!

Thank you, I now have the insatiable desire to RUB THAT BELLY!!!!!

Oooooh, what a loveable-looking kitty!!

Love Bob T. Cat!!

Hi Linda, I started carefully trimming my cat's claws once they were comfortable with my holding them and playing with their paws. I used both of Suzi's suggestions (the citrus spray and catnip on the scratching post) and they both worked great. I also put two-sided sticky tape on the corners of all my furniture for a few months...they hate that and it helps direct their attention to the tape-free scratching post!

awww... Bob T Cat needs a belly rub!

Bob is so darn cute!

Oh yeah you are not the only one. I want to get bins for all mine. Currently it is stored in bags, labled with content and entered into a spreadsheet as to what and where the yarn is. After we move I think I will have to get bins to organize. Currnetly the stash is being used as packaging for the fragile items. That is another good excuse to have a stash. LOL

There is no end to the organizational possibilities of the knitting stash. For the needles (and scissors, and stitch holders...), I'm using an old card catalog cabinet. The drawers are just the right length. For yarn, I use sweater bags purchased at Linens N Things - plastic zipper bags with a mesh insert to allow the yarn to breathe.

What is the orange thing Bob is sleeping on???? It reminds me of a bedspread I had as a kid in the 60s.
Orange rules! he looks happy!

Yep, you sound like every other knitter I know, myself included. What is wrong with us, anyway? I, too, have stash yarn I love that I'm dying to knit but at the same time reluctant to knit because after it is knit there will be no more of it in the stash. What's wrong with us???

Dying to rub Bob's belly right now!

joe went to target yesterday and bought storage containers and began the arduous task of going through his nut and bolt collection, his plumbing supplies, and other metal things that i know nothing about. we currently have a washer and dryer on the front lawn.

I also went through almost ALL my paperwork pile (it was actually housed in four, maybe five Trader Joe's paper shopping bags... nice, eh?) and divided it up into trash, shred, or 2004, 2005, 2006 receipts/bills/junk. I can't file, it's like I am allergic to filing, but putting all the receipts in a clear plastic box worked great!

Now if only I had a great place for said clear plastic boxes. *sigh*

At IKEA, they totally make shelves designed to hold plastic boxes! Some of them may be in the kids section (for toy storage), but they're still wood and could pass as grown-up furniture. They really do have shelves for EVERYTHING there.

Baby Bob isn't relaxed at all is he?

Yarn Stash Storage...I have a whole room and it's not enough! I'm waiting for my daughter to leave home...then I get her room (greedily rubbing my hands together)!

Vacuuming? Hate it.

Roomba robotic vacuum? Love, love, love it! (Although those of us with pets need to spend a good 5 minutes cleaning out the fur after it's done.)

BOB!!! What a cute picture!

I bought a plastic set of drawers for my stash. And my stash used to fit in it. *sigh* I'm now trying to knit through some of the yarn that's OUTSIDE the drawers so I can use more of my closet.

Bob is too sexy for your carpet. You know this, right?

I had a little Target excursion this weekend myself and bought a whole bunch of fabric drawer things to organize my daughter's closet. Those things are awesome! Now I want my own.....

I recently sorted yarn into Target bins I just got. And realized I have so much yarn (not "too" much - there's no such thing!!) Plus I have a fabric collecting habit too. Especially cat fabric, 'cause one day I will use it in a quilt. Really. Honest. At least I tell my self that. Luckily I have a small townhouse, so that tends to limit me.

If you don't already read the Yarn Harlot (website: www.yarnharlot.ca, plus she has 3 books out) you should. She completely gets the whole yarn shortage thing.

Oooo... would you happen to have leftover scraps of orange yarn I could use? I have a crazy project in mind:

http://noricum.blogspot.com/2006/08/orange.html

Did you wash out the plastic tubbies before letting the yarn near them? Did you put a projects worth of yarn in each tubbie? With planned pattern? Do you have a "junk drawer" tubbie for the oddball yarn and tiny projects you'll get to at some point? Did you also go crazy getting school supplies while on sale so you can get all your patterns in one place for when you want something? Did you complain loudly about the ugly tubbies that Target has and end up at Lowes? And, once at the Lowes, did you grumble about how that store is organized?

Yeah, well...

Lovin' that Bob.

What? I thought everyone did that.

Does Bob know he has a relative living in Maine? I'll prove it next time I post.

Love that kitty.

I'd say ziplocs and then tubs if the amounts of yarn are small. Otherwise one of the 7 balls of bright green tape that your have for that shell will get lost amidst the other yarn in the bin. Oh and if you start to neglect your Dyson, I'll call the Vaccuum Protective Services people on you.

I didn't spend time on the plastic tubs, but I did organize my patterns into two 3-ring binders (one for sweaters and tops, one for everything else) and realized I need three--one more for reference material. Eventually, I'll need one for just socks. And I got another three-ring binder and filled it with those plastic zip-lock pencil envelopes and put my circs and DPNs in it. I need more pencil envelopes, too--I want to have one per size eventually, and right now I have to double up on a few.

Vacuum? What is this vacuum you speak of?

Yarn crack. Its the same for us crochet'ers too. Addiction is addiction is addiction...we need help. and a support group.

Geez Purl, I wanted to comment on your last entry, but you made this entry and as usual I am overwhelmed at work and going nuts. So: I was so happy to read you last post. I have always firmly believed in you, and your brains, your common sense and your good heart. I am so happy to see you coming to this point in your life, which is such a better place than where you (uderstandly) were about a year or so ago.

That picture of Bob is winsome, to say the least. Saturday afternoon I got a call from a friend who found a cat that had possibly been hit by a car. It couldn't/wouldn't stand up. Since she was riding her bike, she couldn't take the cat so she called me and I came to get Kitty. Kitty looks a lot like Bob. Kitty was apparently in shock, but once I got the poor thing home, Kitty was able to walk. Kitty is totally traumatized though, and acts like its been abused. We think maybe it was thrown out of a car, judging from the circumstances, and a few minor injuries that we have found. But Kitty is young - probably 8-9 months old - so I'm hoping he will bounce back. I think I might have already found a home for him. And no, I have no idea why I just unloaded all of this on you - except that picture of Bob reminded me of Kitty. Keep your fingers crossed for the poor little guy!
And if you can think of a good name, let me know! :-)

My stash is all in one bin, but like colors reside with like colors. Projects in which I already have yarn and pattern, or maybe just a semi-well formed idea are in a separate bin.

Do you have a room in your house just dedicated to yarn storage?

Linda, I take my big boy Edgar to one of those big-box pet stores which advertises a "grooming salon," and Ed seems to actually enjoy all the fawning and fussing he gets there during his claw trim. We don't even need to make an appointment now that we're "regulars", but you might want to call ahead the first time to see if the store wants proof of immunization or anything. They might even show you how to trim your kitten's claws yourself!

Aww, baby Bob! The cuteness is just beyond...

Mine are mostly classed by fiber content... cottons, linens and other summery type stuff together. Wintery stuff in another compartment (actually several compartments). You get the idea, right? If I had enough sock yarn, there'd probably be a special sock yarn drawer, too.

Cute picture of Bob, by the way.

I spent $467.32 dollars at Target yesterday ON BATHROOM ACCESSORIES. Yes, you read correctly. Soap holders, and carpets and matching towels and toothbrush canisters. etc. etc. damn that Tar-jay. God forbid that the soap holder and tissue box cover don't match.

I also bought a huge plastic bin to store other crap (not yarn). Why must they make it so easy for me to buy more to keep more!!!!!

Of course knitters do that.....

Oh and they label the ziploc baggies too with teh fiber content of the yarn within, you know... just in case.

Neil, my home office has rapidly become The Yarn Room. It's the bane of my decluttering existence.

Linda, I also trim the claws of The Scratchinator (a.k.a. Roy T. Cat). And when I bring in anything new to the house that I don't want them to ever claw, I wrap it in clear sticky paper with the sticky side out. Or use tin foil (looks ghetto, but you only need it up long enough so he gets the idea)

What IS that orange fur stuff? Is it carpet?-cause if it is I want some.

Heh- oooh that Bob belly just beckons to be squeezed and tickled.

I went through the whole Target plastic-storage-bin thingy a few weeks ago. I am such a pathetic yarn horder that I cleaned out my linen closet (rationalizing that I really didn't need all that linen-closet-esque space) and filled it with yarn. When it turned out that there was more yarn then linen-closet-space I bought three tubs where my WIPS live (yes I have that many WIPS) in my living room. Yeah. Its a pretty sad state.

An organizing expert I once saw on Oprah says you should only buy cute organizing containers after you've done a major purge and sorted everything. But that's no fun.

The orange thing is a low, lounge-type sofa thing I made for the house me and Mr. X lived in a looong time ago. It's covered in an orange shag fun fur.

Well, what STUPID, IDIOT MAN would leave a chick that makes something out of orange fur????? You are SO much better off. If I wasn't a girl, I'D marry you.

that baby Bob is soooo cute.
I like to think of it this way - knitting=stash reduction=cleaning, therefore knitting =cleaning. Man, can I justify anything or what? OK, I'm going to go knit, I mean clean, for a while...

Organize yarn? No, of course not... *tries to change the subject* lol

When I grow up, I want to be Bob.

Your house sounds like mine! I somehow find the time to reorganize my yarn on a biweekly basis but CANNOT find the time to vacuum or clean the toliet!

That picture of Bob is *utterly adorable*.

Me, I like the big wooden "blanket box" as a yarn storage device, precisely because the organizedness is limited.

Laurie,when I NEEEEED to declutter and just don't have the energy, I remember the words of my wise old auntie Eleanor. She said, "Just do one thing. And then do one thing more. And pretty soon you'll be amazed at all the one things you have done." Didn't make a lick of sense to me then, but o boy, does it ever do the trick now. Even when I think I'm gonna pass on over, I can still do ONE THING. And usually ONE THING MORE. Love ya.

My yarn is shoved in a drawer and in a plastic tub - but my patterns et al are arranged very carefully in a binder. I think I like yarn easily accessed - reach in the tub, pull something out, caress it, and put it back, lol.

Bob is just so damn cute!!!!

Hey Laurie!
I'm writing you from the beautiful Blue Ridge Mbbountains! I hope you and the cats are doing well. This is my only access for the rest of the week. It's hard to live without the internets!!

I don't know if you got an email from the Post Office but the package is still sitting on my bed at home. I'm sorry...it'll go out as soon as I get home on Friday.

Have a great week!!!
Liz XOXOX

I have an entire room full of huge plastic bins. I am not a yarn-a-holic, but a fabri-holic. I cannot pass a fabric/thrift/flea/yard sale without scouring for fabric. I love to sew: skirts, jackets, pillows, totes etc. I rarely have time, cause I'm too busy trying to keep it all organized!

I called the CatMan up to see the cuteness that is Bob. And you know what he did? He had to scratch Bob's tummy ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN. I now have fingerprints right in the middle of my viewing area. Cute dumb boys (no matter what their age or species!)

And orange fun fur? And Tar-jay? Come to Vermit and we'll civil union, Purl. Oh, wait..nevermind - no Tar-jay here...yet.

That is a great photo of Bob. I just love it!

My favorite new TV commercial is "Parlez-vous Target?"

Linda,
you can get soft paws at petsmart...they are little soft plastic claw covers.Also, clear plastic sheets w/ adhesive on one side that cover the arms of the couch. Slightly less ghetto than foil (More WT IMHO)

I sooooo heart me some Baby Bob!

I call it, "LONG KITTY STREEEEETCH."

ROFLOL - oh Laurie - I am so there - no cat hair, but I got dog hair! And, dust bunnies! Do they count as pets???? I think Bob is adorable - maybe he was trying to be a lint roller? ;-) I am raising a glass in honor of you - Cheers!

You are now cleaning in the grand tradition of my mother, who every Saturday morning spent like 2 hours organizing junk mail while the rest of us scrubbed bathrooms and vacuumed!

What could be more adorable than a kitten? The Bob pic makes me want another one, but if I got another one, me and the cats would be living on the streets!

I have a question. With stash, must you baggie it? My stash is currently stored in baskets and to my knowledge there are no moths. Are moths just a matter of time? Should I be bagging?

No other sane person buys like a knitter. When I moved the stash went into storage (with about 10 mothballs because moths were NOT going to eat my precious handspun) and I ended up doubling it by the time it arrived with the movers. What other hobby prompts so much hording like knitting?

Red, beading causes hoarding just as much as knitting. I have been known to spend days sorting and organizing my beads (and stringing materials and tools and...) and now my yarn has hit critical mass and must be dealt with. I took knitting classes so I could learn to knit beaded purses, but haven't touched my beads since I started knitting, how ironic is that?

OMG! I did that just tonight! LOL. Sale on Sterilite! How could I resist? I bought 10 thinking that would be more than enough. Now I'm thinking I need to go back!

Oh, and laundry and dishes? Still not done.

My fancy drycleaner says that nothing you care about should be stored in a sealed plastic bag. The fiber gets all fusty smelling, and I think the plastic leaches chemicals that aren't good for it.

So, only the best for my quality yarn: a disorganized tub in a 280-degree attic.

CUUUUUUUUUTE picture!

Laurie, If you wanted to pare down the stash, you could toss each of us a couple of hanks/skeins/balls. Then you could post pics of our finished projects. :-)

Look at it this way--you have to protect the yarn from the carpet!

I agree about the baggies--they might suffocate things...

Bob rocks!

I do the Ziploc bag thing too! I used to have a huge plastic tub that I kept all of the individual Ziploc baggies of yarn *in*, but I de-stashed last summer and now I'm down to the essentials -- just the necessary yarn for the projects I'm actually working on.

I miss the yarn that I swapped. I wonder if all of those little skeins are doing well in their new homes - being fashioned into cute socks or sweaters, perhaps?

Awww, baby Bob. I know there are many famously cute cats photos on this blog, but I must say this one takes the cake! I just want to scratch his furry little orange tummy.

My mom has a habit of trying to organize memorabilia from our childhoods in those storage bins. She’ll spend hours pouring over tacky art projects and stories written in crayon. Kind of sweet, but with 5 kids her stash is of an alarming size and you have to wonder if it’s healthy to spend all that time “organizing” this stuff. But hours organizing yarn? Totally reasonable. ;)

Well, I keep hoarding more and more yarn, because I'm expecting the Great Yarn Shortage any year now!

Have you seen the ginormous ziploc bags. A knitter's dream. Pix of my stash in said bags on my blog.

This might be a good time to have a good old online de-stash yard sale. Maybe some of that yarn that is not so great but on sale needs to go to make room for the "omg this is the best yarn ever" yarn that could go in its place. Maybe less bins then too.

Oh the insanity! Tomorrow I get to plastic boxes/totes for work. Yippie! I get to indulge in my organizational urges & not spend a dime. Hell! I'm even getting paid for it.

(I'm all excited now. I'm sure this will pass once I realize what a wreck the closet is that I'm organizing.)

Also, my absolutely freakin' adorable kitty Maximus ruined the guest bed. :( And yet I'm still feeding him treats ALL the time. I don't get it. How does he manage? If anybody else peed all over the bed, I'd be like oh no boy, out the door with you and please do not come back til you understand where the toilet is. But he's a kitty, and he's cute and I am, maybe, only slightly deranged.

Bob. What a babe. (But my personal fav is still Roy. I love me that fang.)

Storage: I got a bunch of those rolly chests of drawers at Tarjay and they are fabulous--if someone else in the household doesn't lose ONE of the wheels. Plus, you can stack them and if you have a storage room or basement you can push them out of the way (to find other things) so easily. I have kept embroidery supplies, a huge collecxtion of beading stuff, holiday decs, threads, fabric, leather and knitting and art stuff in them, almost all without ziploc bags. I save the ziplocs for little things that get lost easily, and for sewing trims and notions. And I have had much of this beloved junk up to ten years without incident through ten moves to different and horrible extreme climates, most of them wicked humid. I am with MBT on the airy storage idea. I drove myself crazy with the classifications and eventually resigned myself to organizing by broad CATegories. Hi, Bob, Roy, Frankie, and Soba!

I just recently organized my stash. I sorted by fiber content in gallon ziplocks, then filed them away so they wouldn't collect dust and attract stash eating buggars.. Now if they only sold 2 gallon ziplocks...
Heidi

***Now if they only sold 2 gallon ziplocks...***

They do! And 2 1/2 gallon, too. I didn't know until a friend of mine told me recently. And I saw the 2 1/2 G ones at Target in Woodland Hills the other day. The PERFECT size for a mid-sized project.

This is slightly scary - you're sure you didn't have a very long lens trained on my house last weekend? Another classification problem - does one categorise yarns-which-will-felt separately from yarns-which-will-not (assuming one can remember what the hell the yarn was in the first place)?

There is no such thing as tacky orange yarn! ;-) And nothing wrong with the way you spent those hours. Yarn needs love and organization.

Hey, I just did the clear plastic bins from Target yarn organization a few weeks ago.

This is why we love you CAP - you articulate so well our lives!

Declawing is not as bad as it sounds. There is even research that shows that it doesn't hurt them! I have a declawed kitty and she still gives me dead mice as gifts, so she can hunt well even when she is front declawed. It also makes me sick shelter workers that deny adoption to people that comment they want to declaw their kitty. They rather euthanize so many homeless kitties than declaw them? My kitty seemed more painful after a spay then her declaw! I worked at a shelter for a few months and it broke my heart when a family was turned down to adopt a kitty because they mentioned they were thinking about declawing, and the same kitty they were interested in ended up euthanized few days later. Horrible....

here is a website with the other side of the argument: www.geocities.com/declawing

A bin that holds your stash??? I have a house that holds my stash.

To my husband's chagrin.