Today we're getting real friends! I'm going to be sharing some of my personal struggles with shopping, among other vices for coping and self-soothing and how knitting has changed some of those coping mechanisms... or not... Stay tuned to find out more!
I made another video about How Knitting Changed My Personal Style too, so if you missed that one, check it out here:
https://youtu.be/NkPW_jIaO44?si=AIeK6p-6iDzHdubC

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Disclaimer
3:39 Personal History and Background
6:14 Shopping Habits and Behaviours
8:45 The Catalyst For Change
11:20 Triggers for Shopping as a Coping Mechanism
13:14 What Changed
14:48 How Knitting Interrupted the Shopping Cycle
16:50 How Knitting Changed Made Me a Pickier Shopper
17:54 What I'm Wearing - Kaleido Cardigan by Rows Knitwear
19:14 What Behaviours Haven't Changed
20:48 The Limits of Making and Consuming
21:50 Financial Investment of Yarn Shopping
22:10 Habits That Transferred Rather Than Changed
23:39 Stash Limitations
25:20 Where I'm At Right Now
27:27 Outro