My name is Kathy, and I'm a beadaholic

They say the first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem. Over the past few days, I've been figuring out the scope of my problem.

In anticipation of my big workroom makeover (which Bob promises will be done next week) I've been sorting through my beads and putting them in nice, organized plastic boxes. One plastic set of drawers (maybe waist high) contains only metal: one drawer for gold filled, one for sterling beads, one for sterling findings, one for copper, base metal or miscellaneous and one for wire.

I weighed one of the silver drawers, just for larfs: six lbs. of silver findings alone! I had been worrying that I had "no" clasps, so I've been buying up clasps on Ebay. I was wrong: I have clasps to last a very, very long time. I cancelled all my planned snipe bids for more clasps.

I'm now mostly done with the metal, and am starting on the semi-precious strands. I fear that I might have even more of those than I did of silver.

This is bad. Very, very bad.

The worst part is that once the workroom is completed, I won't be able to tell Bob he's imagining things when he tells me that I have a zillion dollars worth of beads. Not Good.

Kathy N-V

P.S.: I suspected that there might be a problem when I finally saw the episode of Clean Sweep where they organize a woman's bead room. I saw the couple of little hardware boxes she had, the kind that hold nuts and bolts, and thought, "That's an over-the-top bead collection? What are they, nuts?"

I didn't like the finished room, either. They added a really nice countertop, so she had plenty of desk space, but mounted all the hardware boxes at kitchen cabinet height. The poor woman was going to have to get up and walk around the room every time she wanted to use a different bead. Fugeddaboudit.

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Kathy N-V
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Reply to
roxan

You're so lucky to have a whole *room* for your workspace! I've got the vanity area in front of the master-bedroom closets, because there was simply no other place in the house to shoehorn my stuff in. I've got *one* large drawer unit which holds most of my stone beads, and 4 smaller ones tucked into odd spaces that hold glass beads, findings, and odds & ends. It's not enough, and I periodically have to reorganize, but it's what I've got. As soon as Blair moves out, I'm claiming her room!

Heh-heh. BTDT. At the moment I've lost a set of silver "Goddess in the moon" charms; I know I ordered them, I remember getting them, but somehow they never made it into the charm boxes and now I can't find them. One of the fun things about reorganizing is discovering stuff you've forgotten you bought!

I've been *very slowly* adding beads to my inventory list in Jewelry Designer Manager. I don't even want to *think* about what the finished total is going to be!

Celine

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Lee S. Billings

You are not alone in your addiction Kathy. You know where to send the beads if it becomes too much of a problem for you!! :D

Reply to
Kandice Seeber

Exactly! At least it's not detrimental to our health - only our wallets! And it feeeels sooooo gooooood!

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Kandice Seeber

No, no no... neither one of you is to ever recover. Ever. The world needs more people with healthy addictions, not less. Diana

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Diana Curtis

I'm not addicted. I don't belong in this group. (She walks away sulking wondering why her family put her in this program. She wonders, "Why are they torturing me like this?")

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starlia

They say DENIAL is the first sign of an addiction... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Karleen/Vibrant Jewels

No, no really I don't belong. LOL "Karleen/Vibrant Jewels" wrote in message news:4fCcc.13485$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...

semi-precious

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roxan

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:40:08 -0400, starlia wrote (in message ):

Denial won't help you. I bet you can't even tell us how many beads you have. (That's the first sign)

Kathy N-V

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Kathy N-V

Doesn't it though. I'm glad I don't smoke and drink only now and then (apart from a liquor glass of sherry after work. Yummy.) This way I don't feel so guilty when I buy beads.

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Marisa Cappetta

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@mindCHEMISEspring.com (Lee S. Billings) :

]I've been *very slowly* adding beads to my inventory list in Jewelry Designer ]Manager. I don't even want to *think* about what the finished total is going to ]be!

i'm doing that, too. and i have to include pictures so i don't get confused. it takes FOREVER, when you start late, like i did. someday, it should pay off.............. there are some things i would change about the program, tho!

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vj

You are so right! I can't tell you how many beads I have. LOL It sure isn't your collection, but I have some in the garage in boxes I haven't looked at for three years.

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starlia

Hiding your beads is another sure sign. Do you bead alone? Bead to make yourself feel better? Bead before noon? Do most of your friends bead? I think you are hopeless... thank goodness. Diana

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Diana Curtis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :

]Hiding your beads is another sure sign.

mine are not only in plain sight - they've taken over most of the living room!

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The worst part is that once the workroom is completed, I won't be able to tell Bob he's imagining things when he tells me that I have a zillion dollars worth of beads. Not Good.

Kathy N-V>

LOL dying laughing .... !!!!!

Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

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Cheryl

Most of mine have taken over the house. Unfortunately I do torch alone, but Trinkett is always in the near vicinity since I don't allow her within three feet of hot glass.

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starlia

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "starlia" :

]since I don't allow her within three ]feet of hot glass.

very wise! i love to watch Lynda and Nicole at their torches. and i never remember to stand back. i'm lucky i haven't burned my nose!

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vj

OMG - I'm in serious trouble...... but..... I...... don't...... want...... help. I'm fine.... really. Own a house/own beads..... it's a good thing that Will owns the house is all I can say ;) Or I'd be homeless ;)

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