A new knitter's confession

I started knitting last October. Just then I inherited one cardboard box full of mostly acrylics. Then I bought a couple skeins here and there and used up most of them. Then I started working at a yarn store... Where temptation was all around. And the store closed at the end of April and I had a big discount on whatever I wanted to take. There goes another cardboard box. Then I went on a trip to Switzerland where there was this cool little yarn store and this awesome sock yarn sale. And then there was the Mass Wool and Sheep Festival and my birthday all at once. And there goes a third cardboard box. And I cant quite fit everything in those three boxes.

The conclusion is: I am still a new knitter, but my stash is already quite important proportionally to the number of months I've been knitting.

I would really like to get rid of the ugly acrylics and have in my stash only yarns I cant wait to work with or that I know which project Im going to use them for.

My goals:

• Use up all the baby acrylics on one or several log cabin blanket(s)
• Get a good headstart on my Christmas gifts which are all in the stash already waiting to be knit
• Knit at least 3 pairs of socks from the stash (I've got enough for about a dozen pairs I think already)

My exceptions:

• If on vacation I come upon a wonderful yarn shop where I find something I couldnt possibly buy somewhere else
• If I need something for a my Project Colorswap pal and there is nothing in the stash that is appropriate

My reward:

• Hopefully I will have saved enough money to buy myself a Denise interchangeable circular knitting needle set plus the few circulars not part of the set and some kind of organization system for the remaining stash better than cardboard boxes.