Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy

Among knitters, SABLE is an acronym for “Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy,” a joking reference to “a supply of yarn so huge that there’s no way you could possibly knit it all before you die.” This is part of a complete episode.
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We were talking earlier about the term stash that knitters use to describe all the yarn that they’ve collected that they’re waiting to use for future projects.

And they also use the term sable from time to time.

And that stands for stash acquisition beyond life expectancy.

I love it.

That’s my books, actually.

Yeah, I guess it could be applied outside of knitting.

I mean, in knitting, it’s when your stash is so large,

There’s no way that you could possibly knit all of it before you die.

No, but then you have to spend money on a lawyer to draw up a will

To figure out who gets your sable.

Who gets your knitting stash, right?

Let them figure it out.

All your nieces and nephews are like in fisticuffs.

Who’s going to get the expensive cashmere?

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