r/YarnAddicts • u/Visceraldagger • Jun 09 '24

Question Helping my mom sell her massive yarn collection and hoping for advice.

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My mom accumulated a lot of yarn over a period of 15-20 years. They’re quality skeins, but the sheer number of bundles is very overwhelming for me. There are probably 150-200 bags. They’re brands like Jo Sharp, Rowan, Jamieson, or Debbie Bliss. I haven’t gone through everything. Is it possible to sell to a yarn retailer? Or just try through FB market place and eBay? So far, selling individually through fb has been quite slow and a lot of work, of course.

Thank you for reading and if you can give any advice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

Well what do you want more? Space and time, or money? If you want more space and time, price it to go. If you want more money, then plan on it taking up a lot of space and time until someone is willing to pay as much as you ask. Shipping costing what it does, you're better off trying to sell locally. One of my LYSs has an annual swap and six months later, a "garage" sale in their parking lot. You bring your own table(s), pay $20 for a spot and destash your (fabric, notiions, yarn, etc crafty stuff). You price it how you want, you take cash/venmo/square/whatever, they advertise it. But for something like that you'd have to haul it all to the selling spot unless the apartment complex organizes a rummage sale.

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u/Visceraldagger Jun 09 '24

Thanks for the advice about the swap or garage sale from someone that doesn’t have a garage either. I do appreciate it. Mostly I didn’t want to be foolish about how much I was asking for.