What prevents you from scrapping more?

What prevents you from scrapping more?

  • Time

    Votes: 68 74.7%

  • Cost

    Votes: 4 4.4%

  • Desire

    Votes: 7 7.7%

  • Other? Tell us what it is!

    Votes: 12 13.2%
  • Total voters
    91
SeattleSheri

SeattleSheri

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What prevents you from scrapping more? Pick the choice that applies the most to you ... I recognize, that it's probably a combination of things for most people, but what is the most predominant reason?
 
It's definitely time for me! Working full time and parenting takes up a lot of my time, not to mention I'm a pretty active person.
 
Absolutely time! Being self-employed and a sahm, I feel like every "free" moment I have needs to be spent working. I miss doing layouts!
 
Time definitely - I study full time so am away from home from 6.30am til 5.30-6 each day plus im often doing assignments during the evening too
 
Time is sort of the answer but I posted other, I'm sure if I browsed the internet less I could scrap more but since I design as well I find that once I'm done my kit for the week I don't really want to be doing scrapping?
 
Facebook and the internet. I'd have soooo many more hours to scrap if I didn't let myself get distracted so often.
 
Mojo. If it is lacking, I have a very hard time scrapping. Every once in awhile real life gets in the way too. ;)
 
For me, it's mostly time. But, the lack of time affects my desire for sure. When I have a hectic week, I find myself wishing I could scrap. But then, when I actually do have some time for it, I find that I just want to sit and stare at the wall cause I'm so exhausted. And, like Jacinda said, distractions are a big problem for me too.
 
I voted 'other' . . the thing that stops me scrapping is stress. Now that I'm not working, I am still busy (doing mum and house stuff!!) but I am WAY less stressed and now I make the time to scrap because I want to . . mojo is finally returning!
 
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lack of subject matter. I wish I could scrap more, but I run out of ways to document our lives outside of project life since its just the two of us
 
Mines time and lack of Photos actually. I always forget to take my camera to events and i just don't take pictures unless we are going somewhere fun!
 
SeattleSheri said:
lol, next time I post a poll, I'll include a rodent option :p

p.s. is there some hidden meaning to squirrel I'm not privy to?
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The whole perceived ADD thing...look- shiny..can't concentrate...SQUIRREL!

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Mine is mostly time, but I also seem to loose mojo when I have a lot of other stuff going on in my life. I'm also a photographer and actually have two weddings that I'm slowly working on right now. The last thing I want to do after editing pictures all day is play on the computer. Oh and my eyes and hands start hurting too!
 
I am with Kim. Time and lack of photos. There is that pesky thing I call a job that sucks up at least 10 hours of my day. And the house work, and the kid, and the mom. When I do have time for me, there are too many things I enjoy doing, so finding the time to do them all is hard. And when I do remember to take photos, I am the worst photographer ever. It is on my list of things to learn. ;)
 
Mine is actually kind of twofold-- products, and the "rules" I put on myself.

For example, when I just scrap pages however, I don't have too much of a problem, but a lot of times I want to set out to create a cohesive album. I'll grab a template set from the store (currently, Traci's Insta-Album for my Instagram Vacation Photos, and Nettio's Photobook Frenzy for all of my DSLR shots from the week, to make two different little vacation albums-- the coffee table album for myself, my parents, and my grandmother, and then a small silly Instagram album for my son's bookshelf).

Anyway, when I set out to do that album, I try to stick to one kit or one set of colors to make it look most cohesive-- I want, as you flip through the album, to see the common colors and themes throughout, rather than each page being it's own unit with it's own color scheme.

This is great, when I'm gung ho at the beginning... but as the week or album winds down, I'm going "UGH! I HATE THIS KIT!" (which I don't, but I'm just at that point where I feel like I've exhausted it's potential for that little moment). So a lot of times, I'll end up with a half-finished album and never get it printed, because of burn out.

The second part is product:

I'm facing that burnout. It's Friday, and I'm on the home stretch of my album, getting farther into my vacation albums than I EVER have before, and I'm SO proud of myself... and then Miss Lynnette releases her cute little Summer templates for that mini photobook. Well, yeah, sure, I can buy it and start in on that project NEXT week after I get back... but it's so new and cute and something different from the templates I've been staring at all week and it reeks of fresh potential and newness...

....and I want so badly to unwrap my new goodies that old layouts and albums sit unfinished.

So... I guess my problem, in the end, isn't actually finding time to scrap at all... it's finding time to finish the darn layouts and albums I start. :/

(holy novel, batman. Sorry.)



ETA: Oh, and P.S. this sounds like I might be complaining about the amazing products the designers release. I'm not. The products are great. It's just that when you work with ONLY one kit (or one theme, or one set of colors) for one week, and use nothing else at all, then you end up kind of getting kit burnout. The kit itself is great, and I can think of a million other ways I want to use the kits I'm working with, other than that last 2-3 layouts of my album.

I think the problem is that the designers release so MANY good things, that I am using one kit that I'm starting to reach burnout on, just as the designers release something and I go "ooooh shiny!" and get distracted by the new, and want to just toss the old for the time being. :sigh: Total first world problem, honestly.
 
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I chose time because I do have a full-time job and two children and that leaves me only a little bit of scrap time. If only there were more hours in the day.
 
I voted other. Time definitely plays a role in things so I can't rule that one out completely, but it isn't the whole picture.

I am going full time at work in the fall (work at a school, currently out for summer) rather than the part time hours I've worked the past two years. Even working part time, I've let things slip at home... projects, organizing, etc. Knowing that I will have even LESS time after August makes me a little nervous. I always manage to make time for things I really want to do but I don't always make time for the things that I should be doing. So, this summer I am working on finishing as many as those things as possible so that once school is back in session and I am full time then I won't be worrying every last minute about all the stuff that isn't done and instead I'll have more time to do what I really want to be doing. :)

We have lived here 4.5 years and have boxes still packed. That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about... and painting a few rooms, and organizing my crazy huge craft supply mess, etc.
 
Oohh... good question... I selected time, but now I think on it... it's more than just time. As odd as it to say, I think it's guilt that stops me from scrapping more. When I was on a lot of CT teams, I was always on the computer... getting pages done for deadlines... that I was missing living in the present. Granted I take photos of everything... but it was like scrapping became a full time job and I felt like I was missing out on just "being" with J, one of the reasons I became a stay at home mom... so now I try to keep not to scrap when J is around... and when I do hybrid or create a Sticky Learning, I involve J in the process of helping me. On the other side of the coin - I have guilt that I'm sooo behind on all my scrapping projects and I only have 20 or so pages of 2012 scrapped... haha...
 
It's only partly time for me- sure, days are busy, but I have a lot of time in the evening once my kids are in bed. The main problem for me is sheer exhaustion. Often, when I have time for scrapping, I'm just too tired to do it. So it's a mixture of time and tiredness for me.
 
Loriebug66 said:
I am with Kim. Time and lack of photos. There is that pesky thing I call a job that sucks up at least 10 hours of my day. And the house work, and the kid, and the mom. When I do have time for me, there are too many things I enjoy doing, so finding the time to do them all is hard. And when I do remember to take photos, I am the worst photographer ever. It is on my list of things to learn. ;)
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I could probably say this word for word (except the mom part). We've also got only one computer, so like today I got it from 5:30-7:15 and now I have a 8-year-old pestering to get on. My time is confined to early morning and late evenings and somewhere in there I need to sleep lol!
 
Time!!

The baby doesn't seem to get that I need him to have a long nap now and then so I can scrap ;)
 
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that struggles with not having photos to scrap. Between being busy, redundant days, and photo unfriendly surroundings/ lack of skill, I find myself always needing more pictures to scrap.

I agree with the time constraints, all those pesky things that need to get done get in the way. It's also a balance thing for me, I'm not very good at working everything I want to do into the time allotted. I'm not a very fast scrapper and I have other hobbies beside scrapping, I love to read and crochet, play with other arts and crafts etc.
 
What Darcy was saying about getting distracted. I will go on the computer to scrap and then end up checking my e-mail, browsing Pinterest, a kid will come and interrupt me, etc.
 
I got hired full time in the school district teaching second grade and then working on my sped credentials, I barely have time to eat and sleep.
 
I struggle with having the right photos too. I take a lot of photos, generally, but they aren't always photos I want to scrap about .... meaning I'm okay with having the photos tell their own story, without scrapping them.
 
It is usually time for me. Real life gets in the way...............which I am okay with. I need time with family and friends to make memories to scrap about. :) I also have too many interest that I have a hard time splitting my time between all my hobbies and then responsibilities. There is just not enough time in the day some days.
 
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