I Did It!!!!
One of my nieces has taken up knitting--mostly finger knitting as she's pretty young, but she has a birthday coming up and we thought this: would be a good gift. It's a cute little kit, but it only comes with 2 balls of yarn, which, for a relative of mine, will NEVER do. I am sending all the remnants of novelty yarn I have, but decided to risk Joann Fabrics to get another ball of yarn for her, and s this is ALL the yarn I came home with!!! I did buy some spring flowers to put in Andy's office, but that doesn't break my rules since that's household money rather than mine. I even looked at fabric but didn't feel tempted! Of course, that might have something to do with "looking at" meant "walking really quickly down the aisles and refusing to make eye contact with any fabric looking too tempting," but I judged the entire enterprise a HUGE success! I did have my one exception for the year: which sort of only vaguely counts anyway...