Working in a yarn shop is rather lovely and dangerous. You get paid to knit, using yarn you don't have to pay for, all in the name of a shop model. That tank you love so much but the pattern doesn't go to your size? It'll sell more cotton than you can shake a stick at. You also get to unpack all kinds of new stock, petting it as you. Yarns, notions, and bags oh my!

This is where the downside is, because you're liable to come home with 9 skeins of Rowan Handknit DK in Ice Water to make the Whoosh Zip Jacket from Miss Bea's Playtime. And of course you need something to tote your new project around in, so you also have to buy that lovely Lantern Moon Palm Leaf Tote in Cinnamon. You leave, thanking god for your steep employee discount because it'll save your ass when your husband gets ahold of the reciept.