Goal going: Destash in progress.

Last night I got a couple boxes and started going through my stash - which totalled 3 large Rubbermaid totes, 2 small ones, and a collection of yarn and fiber that had gone loose in the wild.

I got through one of the large totes and two of the small ones, with the end result that when I went to round up all the "loose in the wild" stuff, I had a completely empty large tote to put it all in, and two very full cardboard boxes to send off to charity. There will be at least one more, but I need to come up with another mailable box of decent size. I think I have a trip to Office Max in my future.

The yarn (and probably some fabric, and maybe some of the crochet hooks and knitting needles I have duplicates of) is going to a fiber arts program at a charter school for "high-risk" girls. The program is apparently a huge success - the girls in it are doing academically and behaviorally better than their peers - but all their materials need to be donated. If anyone else is destashing and interested in helping this group out, the address is:

Ava McDowell
Clara B. Ford Academy
20651 W. Warren Avenue
Dearborn Heights, MI 48127.

(I'm keeping Clara Parkes' "Slow Stashing" in mind as I destash, and being reasonably aggressive about it - I'm getting rid of every skein that doesn't make me smile when I pick it up and pet it, or that I don't know what I want to do with it. Actually I'm probably even keeping more than I should...but there's nothing that says I can only aggressively prune the stash once. Ideally I would like to not be embarassed to put a picture of any skein in the stash on Ravelry...)