How much do you spend on yarn each month (on average)?

[cjansen]

It depends, I buy alot at thrift stores. Today I bought some stretchy ribbon looking yarn, without labels for 5 balls for $1.00 I bought 10, enough I hope for a hat ans carf, maybe mittens. but there was 10 times that much there! of course you all are enabling me to spend more by telling me all about the sales!

[kookykatlady]

never really sat down and figured it up.. but i'd dare to say that i am in the over $100 a month range...especially now since i am stocking up for winter. i occasionally find yarn at a thrift store, but most of the time i go to michaels or to walmart.

[passionsgirl22]

i spend about 25 dollars on yarn

[maryann829]

I voted about 50 per month. I'm still new to crochet and I find I have been just picking up whatever is pretty or on sale. Sadly, I have already made some regretable buys, but I have to learn somehow

[cher49]

I use alot of yarn making gifts for family and charity work.

[Elle]

I wish I could spend more than $100 a month on yarn! but I don't have the money or the time and my family despises my crochet hobby. I'm a college student working two pt jobs just trying to pay off tuition and rent and I'm trying to save money for after college so I don't have very much money to spend on yarn. I'll usually buy a skein or 2 once every couple of months.

 

That's terrible that your family despises your crochet hobby! Don't they realize how lucky they are that you HAVE a hobby? So many young people today don't have any interest at all in doing anything creative, and they're into things that are FAR worse than making things with yarn and a hook! I think it's great that you love to crochet! If you were my child, I would support you 100%!!!

 

Elle

[codymikki]

DH is a warehouse store junkie, i.e., we will never run out of paper products, light bulbs, etc. That said, he is always telling me to buy more yarn "so you have enough". I eventually showed him my stash and he was a bit taken back, but not too badly.

 

After haunting AC Moore and WM, WM finally got some pretty Christmas yarn, so yesterday I bought 19 skeins 1/2 with metallic thread and 1/2 solid SS. I came home with it and said "remember how you said I should always buy yarn so I'll have enough?"

 

Ha Ha, he laughed and said "You finally did it!" How's that for enabling.....

[mva5493]

I think I need to revise how much I spend a month close to christmas...I feel like I am running to the store to pick up yarn every couple of days. I am trying to make 4 rr's as xmas gifts for my mother and three sisters. This is the first time I have made any that were adult size. I just started my 7th rr this am, but the first 5 were baby and child size. The bigger ones use a lot more yarn...but that's okay it just gives me an excuse to feed my addiction, as if I REALLY needed one.

 

I said around 25 a month, but my count from the day after thanksgiving until now is just over 50, and will probably be back for more before the week is up.

[danisboots]

sssssh! dont you know a woman never tells how much she spends on yarn per month or day for that fact! lol i would say this is one of those times a little white lie isnt such a bad thing?, "what they dont know wont hurt them? and we dont tell how much we spend on books and patterns either. just kidding, i would say about 50 dollars(books and yarn), i try real hard to keep things in check and ask myself if i will really make the project or do i really neeeeed that yarn just cause i like the color, sometimes it works and well other times.......i do find a lot of great stuff at thrift shops i get so much more for the buck! dani

[2kute]

I spent about $60 in Dec, so average I'd say $40

[Arcticwolf]

According to my DH, I spend way to much . But crocheting is the best form of relaxation:c9

[RusticOkie]

I voted $0-$10 but it really varies. It depends on what I'm working on and what kind of deals I can find!

 

Some months I hardly buy any then some I'll buy a ton. But right now I have such a huge stash I'm only buying if I find a great deal.

[rashidah]

It is nice to know that someone love math and crocheting at the some time because I am a math major and I also love crocheting.

[Cliffnote]

lhasaapsolady -If I break it down by month on what my hubby actually spends in a years time it is over $100 a month. He can't go to any store that has yarn on sale without picking it up for me, even if I'm not with him. I find a way to use it. Guess that makes me a little nuts.

 

 

Maybe your hubby should talk to mine, LOL. He buys me yarn once in a while, I have 2 small shelves and he thinks thats a lot.I spend 10$ or less on yarn a month.I cant wait until the flea market and yard sales, i get great deals on yarn.

 

Kim

[crochetalot]

When I get low I buy yarn or thread. julie

[Pear-Kitten]

There's a Sunday flea market here where I get my yarn and it's really cheap so I haven't had to spend more than $10 per month. I bought nine different colors for $2 so I'm good for a little while. Also Wal-Mart's been having pretty good sales lately.

[rired41]

I'm not sure I don't keep track probably so I don't feel guilty.But almost all of it is for gifts so I think I am actually saving money? That's my story and I am sticking to it.!!

[Titus2woman]

I really don't know how to answer this question, I only know that the figure is creeping up! (((((HUGS))))) sandi

[GEMINI4659]

I am a yarnaholic .If I want it I buy it. My local haunts for yarn know be by name. As for how much too much .I never add it up I`d crock