Well, that was depressing.

As I wrote about the other day, it turns out that my cat Mara is allergic to wool among other things. The vet is sending me a complete list of what she was tested for and what substances were positive. (So there's always the hope that maybe it was lanolin or sheep dander and not actually wool. The vet tech on the phone was having trouble reading off some technical term and then went "oh, wool!", so maybe she made a mistake. I'm not going to plan on it, though.)

Although she has other allergens, wool is the easiest of the ones I know about for me to manage, so for now I'm concentrating on it and the dust mites. Of course, I knit and spin, so this is not a trivial activity.

And that what brings me to what was depressing: preparation for major destash. I've decided that if it's got wool and I don't love it, I'm going to try to destash it.

• I have a lot of wool and wool blend yarn. I divided up the portion of stash I already had organized so wool was in one storage tub and wool-free in another. The wool tub was about 1/4 full. The wool-free had four items in it. :P
• If you're not a retailer, you can't get a good price for yarn. Especially the single balls I've got. If I get back half of what I paid on any given item, I'll probably be lucky.

This is about the best argument against keeping a stash that I've ever received. :P

In the next few days, I'm going to try to put together a page of some of the wool-containing yarns I need to destash, and open a "want to trade" post on the nicer of my regular knitting boards. I'll come out ahead if I can trade for wool-free yarn, even if it isn't a one-for-one trade, but that's probably not going to get a whole lot of takers. What's left there will go up for sale on Ravelry, where I won't get much for it. I don't know a better place to go, though.