Oh, my.
Someone reported on the knitlist that she knew someone who had written a database program to calculate the length (as in linear feet) of her stash. Woman had 57 miles of yarn.
That would be waaaaaaaaay too much information for me. I tend to prefer "don't ask, don't tell" as the motto for my stash. (Not to mention which, it would be an irritant to haul out all that yarn, line it up, and write down the number of skeins and their length, just to figure out that I have enough yarn to stretch to the moon and back, or something like that).
Also - I kind of like the serendipity of digging in the stash for one thing I know is there, and finding two or three others I'd forgot about, and can repurpose into different projects than what I originally intended.
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When I reorganized my rather large stash a few years ago, I created an Excel spreadsheet to track yarn in and out. I remember most of the yarn, but can't always remember how much I bought of any specific yarn.
Excel allows easy calculations, and just because I could, I converted yards to feet. Then, again just because I could, I converted feet to miles.
Currently I have 216 miles of yarn, which breaks down into 7 miles of yarn in WIPs and UFOs, 33 miles of sock yarn, and 176 miles of "other" yarn!
The funny thing is that Ken thinks this is hilarious, probably because he doesn't need to feel bad about the 11 racing motorcycles (with extra body work and motors and 7 bins of small parts like bolts and screws) or the 2 classic cars he's restoring or the 15 computers he keeps in his shop.
It makes shopping the stash for yarn for a specific project much more fun, and (to me) doesn't reduce the surprise factor of rediscovering the 2 or 3 ball lots of yarn for smaller projects.
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