1. When I blog about knitting, I don't blog about junk. This was supposed to be a junk blog, but I have 24 knitting entries to 29 junk/thrift store score/doodad entries. I became obsessed with knitting 2 weeks into the blogathon, so that's why equal time was given to yarn. But there are at least ten million knitting blogs which post better (in the sense of nobler, finer, funnier, and more technical) things about yarn than I do. I will still show off my finished woolly projects, because all that work demands some fanfare, but from now on the junk entries will outweigh the knitting entries by at least 4 to 1.
2. I don't like yarn that smells like sheep stink, and neither does my husband. As a corollary to this truth, wool that smells the most like a barnyard is also the most expensive.
3. The Pursuit of Junk can be one Path to Enlightenment.
4. It's annoying when you spend a ton of time and money on a handknit sweater, and it doesn't looks as good on as something bought off the Wal-Mart clearance racks.
5. Junk is funnier than yarn, except when the yarn turns into something
Hideously Ugly.
6. Sewing takes a fraction of the time of knitting, costs 1,000 times less, and usually results in a more wearable item.
7. Junk is Everywhere. You just have to Keep Your Eye Out.
8. Chihuahuas and cats are cuter than junk.
9. Never buy terry cloth tea towels that smell like 50 years worth of tobacco smoke, no matter how attractive the design. The stale cigarette butt smell is even harder to remove than sheep stink (see #2 above.)
