Does your SO nag you about scrapping?

Yes! Sometimes it's really nice when he goes out of town and I don't have to feel guilt for being on the computer!
 
By and large he's happily supportive, but my computer is in my office I do get comments here and there sometimes when I'm in the scrapping groove.
 
Mine was SOOOOOOOO happy to see me give up paper scrapping for digi that he bought me a laptop! He said he was saving money and could get me the laptop. ...so how could he say anything? lol Actually I spent 100% more time with the family because I am not in the basement scrapping...I am in the family room scrapping while we watch tv!
 
At first he did, because I was always bugging him being on the computer so much (he's a videographer/photographer/web designer), but once I became a digital scrapbooker, now it's the other way around. LOL!
 
it comes and goes with his moments.. if he's watching a football game, Nascar, drag racing or whatever guy stuff he's into.. he doesn't say a word. Usually when he's feeling 'neglected' do I hear all about 'my time on the computer' arggh!
 
Mine is very resentful of the amount of time I spend on the 'puter (and I have seriously cut back out of guilt). Though I think a lot of that stems from the fact he wishes he could spend more time on it himself.
I think the most painful part is his pretty-much complete lack of interest in the finished layouts. He hasn't even read through our son's baby book or the family album from last year, which are printed books in the living room. Since I don't really have any friends to share my scrapping with, it does get a little depressing. But hey, there's always therapy.... :)
 
We'll see what happens when we combine households in the next month. :p

He would complain off and on earlier this year because I was 'always' on the computer when we were watching TV. He just doesn't get (yet!) how boring I think it is to just sit in front of the TV and mindlessly zone for hours on end. I like to watch TV AND scrap at the same time! *lol*

I started leaving my lappy at home so that I only scrapped at my own house on my own time, so the complaints died off after that.

He has a very fancy touch/tablet lappy for work now, so I've started bringing mine over as he begins to play with his at night, and there hasn't been much complaint now that he has a toy, too.

Basically, he just doesn't play well by himself and needs someone to entertain him or be as entertained as he is at all times. :p
 
No, he actually bought me my own lappy after I was monopolizing the computer so much. We sit and watch TV shows while I do my thing or we sit in the same room doing our own computer thing.
 
Mine has given up on nagging. Or else I'm tuning him out. He seems to think that I'd be a better housekeeper if I was on the computer less. Apparently he doesn't remember that I was a lousy housekeeper before I ever started digiscrapping.
 
all the time. but he's on his computer just as much if not more than me. I haven't been able to find a job so he resents me. So he gets on me about everything. He's an ass.
 
My DH just does not get it at all...I have tried to explain it to him 1,000 different ways but he still is clueless!!! The other thing that cracks me up is that HE bough me my laptop all on his own and new complains that I am on it too much....he is such an enabler I tell you!!! Plus, when he gets home from work after dinner he goes into his man cave and does the same damn thing. The only difference is that he is playing Spider Solitaire or searching the JR Cigar site so all I have to say to him is this.......:p
 
meems said:
Mine has given up on nagging. Or else I'm tuning him out. He seems to think that I'd be a better housekeeper if I was on the computer less. Apparently he doesn't remember that I was a lousy housekeeper before I ever started digiscrapping.
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too funny Mimi...me too though!!!! My house looks the same as it did before I started scrapping!!!!
 
Nope, not at all. :) He loves that I have a hobby I enjoy so much 'cuz he has his own too (some also involving the computer).
 
Oh yes.......my dp constantly moans at me to get of the computer!
So I go sit with him, he falls asleep...starts snoring and then wonders why i spend most of my time on here lol
 
No, not really. On the flip side, I feel like I have to explain to him that I'm not ALWAYS on the laptop because it seems like that's always what I'm doing when he comes in the door. But I make sure the house is shaped up and laundry is going before I sit down to scrap so he doesn't ever realize that there are things that are lagging. ;) He really has mostly positive comments on my scrapping - has bragged to his mom about the cool things I can do (see how little he knows? ;)) and asks me how my SR points are coming for the month. :) And now that I've informed him about CT's he's been asking me when I'm going to start doing that too. (I wish ;))
 
Sometimes...

I started scrapbooking (paper) when during our first football season when I became a football widow.

I'm getting better about balancing my time though.
 
psalm149 said:
Mine doesn't really nag me too often, but I feel like he wants to. lol
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LOL! I think this is us, too. But he's always watching tv, and I have no desire to sit through every sporting event or whatever else is on. For a while DH had his own laptop, so we spent a lot of time together in the family room (him gaming and surfing while I scrapped) and it was nice. But that old laptop died, so he's back to hanging out in the basement with his big screen tv. In theory I could take my laptop down and join him, but him watching tv while I'm on the computer doesn't seem to be the same quality of together time as if we're both on computers.
 
meems said:
Mine has given up on nagging. Or else I'm tuning him out. He seems to think that I'd be a better housekeeper if I was on the computer less. Apparently he doesn't remember that I was a lousy housekeeper before I ever started digiscrapping.
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OMG that is hilarious :D :D :D
 
He jokes that the computer growls at him when he sits down to it too...
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OMG! HAHAHAAA! That just made me crack the heck up! Priceless!

To the question...yes, there are many times hubby yells at me for being on here! But he sure does play his XBOX very often and I don't complain??!!
 
Not usually. He's a big online gamer so he's usually stuck in front of a computer screen as well. And, we share our office so, quite a bit of the time, we're doing our thing right next to each other so we can chat occasionally! :)
 
Yes, but only because his laptop is still broken and he's too lazy to go fix it. But since I do the majority of my scrapping at night when he is sleeping and then I sleep during the day while Lukas is at school and he can play then we are running into less problems. I don't watch tv but he cannot be in a room without it being on usually sports of some kind, and he plays his playstation. My biggest problem is that now I am fighting with both him and Lukas because they both want to play and I want to do CT work and stuff. It sucks sometimes but we gotta have something to argue about or there wouldn't be anything to make up about *snigger*. Hugs Crystal xxx
 
Totally supports it because my creative outlet used to be writing and since I'm not doing that anymore, he's happy I get to scrap. Plus he has his own lappie so I get the desktop to myself while he works/plays PC games in the bedroom. He's still close enough that we can chat, but if he has the door closed we just IM each other, lol :D I suppose as long as I vacuum and get the dirty dishes out of the way first, I'm good :)
 
ZaCola3 said:
Nope-My husband is very supportive of my scrapping habits...He knows all my CT's and always asks what they have new each week...he loves seeing my pages and has even showed all of his friends my galleries...Three of them even called me and told me congrats when I became a Sugarbabe...he even told them that...LMBO.
I have a keeper I think.
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OMG! Your DH sounds too good to be true Shannon!
 
meems said:
Mine has given up on nagging. Or else I'm tuning him out. He seems to think that I'd be a better housekeeper if I was on the computer less. Apparently he doesn't remember that I was a lousy housekeeper before I ever started digiscrapping.
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Too true Meems! :D
 
Mine told me he wishes he were a laptop so I can pay more attention to him. LOL But really, he supports my scrapping time and considers it therapy. I :wub: it!
 
Sometimes he does, but it depends. Since I got the laptop, it's less. He gets home and I'm on it so he was getting cranky, because he assumed that I walk in the door and get on it but then one night he was home early, he figured out that I come in, change clothes, feed the kids, do dishes/laundry, clean up the kitchen, etc etc etc before I sit down and get online. Since then, he's shut up a little bit. LOL
 
Mine is far more likely to be on the computer in the evenings than I am, so he can't say anything to me about my computer time. He opens his laptop and sits in his chair as soon as the kids are in bed. He watches TV and reads political blogs at the same time, while I read or crochet. I turn my computer off at 6 most days before he even comes home.
 
I bought a laptop so i can bring it out to where he is. He just got himself a new laptop too, so if he's home (he's working out of state right now), we'll both put them up at the kitchen table. It's kind of nice. I'm busy doing something I like, but can sit and visit with him!!
 
Not at all. But what I do also brings in money so he can't exactly tell me to get my butt off the computer. I do try to get all my household duties done before he gets home so that I can sit with him on the couch in the evenings and work from there.


I am very lucky in how supportive and involved he is. He will ask me how my online friends are doing and even calls some of you by name. He also likes to read over my shoulder when I am browsing forums and has even sat in on a chat here! LOL!
 
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