Quote Originally Posted by Frog View Post
I know I'm pretty new at this kilted "thing", but is it possible to have too many?
At various times and places on this forum, a twelve-step program for the kiltoholic is published. It's pretty straightforward and involves buying yourself to the next level of addiction.

Unfortunately, my case is more serious, more convoluted, and perhaps terminal, because I don't usually buy the kilts and sporrans - I make them. That necessitates huge inventories of tartan and other fabrics, boxes of leather in many current forms, wide varieties of small mammal pelts, large assortments of small hardware, hand sewing supplies of all kinds, sewing machines (yes, plural), and comfortable chairs and table space to perform the necessary activities. This raw materials and equipment inventory takes lots of space. The finished goods also take drawer space, closet space, door handles, and anywhere else one can hang kilts and sporrans.

The addiction requires wearing a kilt in public only once and then making a new one for the next outing. Of course, each new one has to be a new and different pleating system than the last one. That's why I can only go out a few times a year - escaping my padded cell for a few glorious moments of euphoria - before descending back into the dark, cold, lifeless cell of my miserable existence.

How many is too many? Well, these stores went from one room and closet to a whole apartment, and soon to an entire house. The kiltography (and sporranography) I started reconstructing recently has exceeded one typewritten page already. It's hard to wear more than one at a time...

(Oh!? This was supposed to be the short answer...?)

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