Tough decisions

My vow to declutter my life and free myself from excess has been quite transforming.  I have learned heaps about myself, have gained space and freedom.   Based on the wonderful gains, I promised to continue to declutter.  This has been somewhat mixed.  It is still freeing but it is in some ways getting harder.

I have already gotten rid of so much.  All the 'easy' stuff has gone and believe me it wasn't that easy either.  Now the really hard stuff is upon me and keeping it up is really hard.  In fact it is down right difficult.

The current 'for instance' is my sewing room.  I used to sew all of mine and my children's clothing.  Now I only sew pants for myself in order to get the right fit.  Sewing clothing is no longer fun.  I have given away most of my clothing fabric stash and got it down to four crates.  Yesterday I decided to tackle those four crates.  I have now got less than half a crate left of fabric I really love and will use.
Yeay Me!!!

Three empty (or soon to be empty) crates and some of the discards.

What to do with the contents of the other three and a half crates is where it is tricky.
I have already gone through my fabric at least twice and culled any that I didn't love or that were out of date or that my kids had outgrown or, or, or.  These four crates represent the stuff I have kept for one reason or another after all my culling.

Now is the time to really asses why I kept each piece and to decide if it still earns the priviledge of occupying space in my home and my life.  Surprisingly the first go through yesterday I still managed to pull out a fair bit of scraps, small-ish pieces and left over bits as well as a few pieces kept out of guilt.  All of them went into a bag to give away.

  See the fabrics in this pic? BTW they are balancing on the box of 'keepers' and as you can see it is only half-full. :)

All of these are full size pieces of lovely fabric - they just don't suit my life for one reason or another.  They all represent money spent - wasted if I never use them.  I know I need to just suck it up and get rid of them... but first I think I'll just torture myself for a bit.... yep that's what I am doing and it even sounds loopy to me.  so why do I do it???  ... ... ... nope, no decent answers coming. sigh.

I have considered trying to sell them on eBay to recoup a few dollars... there are over 10 000 pieces of fabric already on eBay in Australia alone, most of which are online fabric shops.  sigh - what chance do I have of actually selling them? I don't want the cost of an add (even if it is only a dollar or two) if they don't sell and I still have to end up just giving them away... that would only be wasting more money.

I tried to find a swap type of arrangement where I could swap it for things I actually could use.  I found heaps of craft swaps where you swap lovely completed items but nothing that is quite what I am looking for.  

So after they have sat for a few days and I rack my brain trying to come up with options, I will bag them up and drop them in a charity bin.  got any good ideas?