When you should get rid of your yarn

When should you GIVE away your yarn?

Wow! That's like blasphemy in my language. Getting rid of yarn - yikes - I don't ever see that as a good thing! Unless, UNLESS I am selling yarn that I am not crazy about and probably will never use in order to FINANCE more yarn that is a type of yarn I love the most, like Bernat Softee Chunk! (which I think they are doing away with *gulp*).

So, how do you get rid of it? Sheesh, I am probably not the expert on that subject, but I have sold a lot, so maybe I can help a little. My "building of my ginormous yarn stash didn't take long and now pretty much dominates the only closet we have! lol. My husband hates it, but he really can't say much, because he only uses drawers in a dresser and doesn't really need closet space. Plus his world (safari, hunting clothes) in a huge Rubbermaid-like container.

I began selling on Craigslist (and a bit of Facebook Marketplace), and found it super easy to sell it all. I did of course sell more than just yarn though. I even sold some old barrettes, hair bands, and stuff like that which I had owned since I was a little girl. Those sold FAST!

I just took pictures of my yarn, gave a brief description (hoping to eliminate too many questions from potential buyers), and came up with a competing price that I thought was fair, but I must admit that that was probably the most difficult part of the sales, because I knew how much I paid for stuff, and didn't want to take a loss there.

I think in my bulky yarn batches for sale, I was pricing about $1.00 per skein, and I had a few gals that jumped on that, but then when I was down to the last 3 posts, I had no questions and no takers. I lowed the price significantly and still had no luck, so I decided to keep them and find a use for them.

Keep in mind that I'm not talking about fancy yarn, just like Red Heart super saver worsted weight yarn or something like that; so I'm sure it wasn't a great deal for someone who knew how much yarn actually costs. But it was SO hard for me to part with it.

It's been like 4-6 months since my last post of my yarn for sale, and now I have decided I need to sell more. I just got so discouraged before. But I just don't like the worsted, regular yarn anymore so I would like to get rid of some of that. I'm thinking about lowering it by half of what I was selling it at and trying $.50/skein.

I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas. What do you use view yarn to be worth? What would you sell it for?

I appreciate your comments below.

xoxo,
Michele