My yarn stash is almost out of control.

There's a knitting terminology called 'critical mass'.  That means that you have more yarn than you can knit in your lifetime. 

My stash isn't at critical mass yet, but it's getting there.  I've got yarn EVERYWHERE.  It's in baskets, in cedar boxes, trunks, tubs, in closets, shirt sleeves, bags....in the vanity under the bathoom sink, under my bed, behind the couch, in the laundry room....it's every frikkin' where.

So why is it that when I see a knitting pattern I want to make I can never find a suitable yarn in my stash and always have to go purchse more?  It never fails.  For instance, I saw a super cute pattern for a mitered squares jacket.  Do I have the yarn for it in my stash?  Nope.  If I want to knit up the pattern, I'm going to have to go buy more yarn (for the record, I'm making it in Paton's SWS; the colorway that's red and reach and yellow and orange.  It sounds ugly but it's really pretty).

So much for my freeganism idea.

*However, I am putting a moratorium on sock yarn purchases.  I'm got too much sock yarn (gasp!  I said it out loud!  'I HAVE TOO MUCH SOCK YARN!!!!!!!!'  Dear gawd, I must be ill.  I'm going to go take my temperature.......)*