you may have a use for them in the future? Well, I do and my DH --it drives him crazy. However, a couple of years ago while surfing the net, I came across a decorating website that was selling out all of their merchandise. I bought a video on a cake by Rosemary Watson and several silicone molds. Never used them and actually forgot about them.
To the present, I have a wedding cake for Saturday that has alot of little details on it...went to Michael's for inspiration and it hit me...I have some silicone molds at home. Could hardly wait to get home and dig them out. Couldn't even remember where I had put them.
Found them and they are perfect for this cake. I am sooo excited. I can hardly wait to get this one finished and posted. I do hope it looks as good as the one in my head.
Oh well, off to decorate...will chedk in before I go to bed.
I fell in love with the hosue we bought because it had 2 pantries and I cut put lots of my cake stuff in there instead of going to a tote in the attic! I have quickly outgrown the two pantries 
It also does not help that I read the posts and hear of something that someone loves and then I HAVE to buy it becasue someone might want a cake using that one day.
Oh well...it keeps me busy. !!!!
All the time!! I'm running out of room to store everything - I have things all over the house so my DH won't know HOW MUCH I actually have.
So, yes, I forget exactly what I have also.
reading this was looking in the mirror!!!! LOL SOOOO true!
Absolutely!!! I've even duplicated an item or two because I've forgotten that I had it stuck away for "someday." I need a bigger kitchen - my cake "stuff" is occupying almost half of our study, too. Maybe it's an addiction...if so, it could be to something a lot worse. I'm disappointed if there's no coupon for the week for Michael's or Hobby Lobby! PAT
me too 
My laundry room has floor-to-ceiling shelves on 2 walls (bins filled with character cake pans) and I have no dining room anymore (wedding cake stands, separator plates, columns, etc) and my kitchen is ...well... it is a cake factory. Every room in my house has something cake-ish, except the bathroom.
But I still want a...if I can find one, I want a... 
"Please sir, may I have some more?"
- Oliver Twist
I don't even know what I'm doing yet, but still I have accumilated a bunch of stuff. I have the excuse, "But honey, it may make it easier for me to learn".
I too have taken over 3 rooms in the house to store my cake items,plus the right side of my shed with shelves from floor to ceiling!!!!!!! sometimes I have to throw other items out etc,, to make room for cake stuff but who cares..lets buy more 
and do you ever use your michaels or a.c coupons,just to be able to buy stuff even if you don't need it now?
Oh thank God I'm not alone. I think we could make a ton of money if we started a club like AA only call it CA and charge only a dollar a month membership. Just think of all the NEW stuff we could buy then. LOL
At first I was trying to make sure I always used what I bought right away so at least I can say I used it. But then that quickly went out the door and now I have boxes full of things I've never used yet and a bookcase full of books I've not yet read.
But I will........someday. I know I will.
Besides, if not and one day we tire of all this, well then there is eBay and we will be rich!
Joanne
I really try not to buy unless I need something for a cake that is upcoming that I am getting pd for. What I need is usually $50 and up anyway. I pretty much have all the wilton I can use, so my Michael's and JoAnn's coupons go unused half the time. Also, I have a pretty good library, so I can preview a lot of books and see if I will use them before I buy them.
However.....Gingerbread.....I go to every store in town, from the dollar store to the Mall to the Cracker Barrel looking for cool candy, cookies, gum, etc. I don't know exactly what I'll use stuff for, just want to have a lot on hand. I do save a lot from year to year--If it goes on Gingerbread, it will get dusty before it gets eaten.
So, Jorre, go ahead and buy those candy rocks!!!!! I know exactly what you can do with them. 
Oh No! I am just staring out making cakes and am already saying, "honey, but I need that to..." I am a newbie and already having a hard time finding a place to put stuff. Michaels coupon starts tomorrow. I want.....and.......and........
I just did exactly that.
I was at Michaels browsing around trying to find anything "else" I might need.
And they had this bin of 4" monogram initials made of pearl beads on wires, in white or pale sage green. For $1.00 each! So I sorted through them and bought one of every letter they had...
For what? I have no idea. But you never know when someone will want a pearl monogrammed letter on their cake!
I've actually nearly filled up my hall closet with stuff. It's the only place dh won't look because it used to have my vacuum & other cleaning stuff in it. I have dozens of pans i buy just in case me or my best friend need to use them.
O.K. so this is when you know that you need HELP!!!!!
I bought not one, not two but three editions of the Sunday paper so I can get the 40% off coupon for Michael's because (this is what I told my Hubby) I start the Wilton class and I need these things. I am takeing the class now after 1 1/2 years of decorating. I have a TV box full of (what my sis calls - cake crap)!!! Imagine that, this is worth gold to us. I have closets that barely close and oh Behind my moms sofa (yeah I'm even hiding stuff at my moms). Isn't there a CDA (cake decorators anonymous) somewhere I think that we would have a full room every night. Lol
But wait there is something on clearance at Michael's that I want, oh and at the party store on the way home, oh and on E-Bay. I guess I'll join tomorrow.
So you are not alone.
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