Scrapbooking Confessions....

[Tree City]

YOU DELETE THEM??? Is that even allowed? I'm pretty sure you're supposed to pay a lot of money to store them on the cloud and on an external hard drive, and if you have to buy two EHDs, it's fine. I still have products from 2010, and I would have some from before that but I lost a lot of stuff in a hard drive crash.

Sorry about your Hd crash! I just wanted to say that I have BackBlaze (which I think is an inexpensive way to get peace of mind about constant digital backup) *and* 4 EHDs. Wait: one is as full as I allow them to get... so I'm down to 3.

I delete stuff every once in awhile, but I like knowing I have many options available for me. (And *usually* I don't delete stuff that's less than 4 years old unless it was a freebie and I just know I have no use for it.) If I'm looking thru one of my EHDs and I see a kit I'll never use, then I delete it. No prob. But the idea of deleting a kit after one or two uses or a template after one use is just not my cup of tea. I have some Cindy templates that I've used multiple times. Deleting them would give me heart palpitations lol. To me, throwing away a kit after a couple uses is like throwing away a shirt after wearing it twice. No thanks lol. But that's just me. YMMV.

 

[MamaBee]

I too use a kit/template once and delete... unless it's a food kit, school kit, camping kit, has really cool theme elements (I'll keep just the elements) in a folder.

Oh - I can not delete anything by a designer that is no longer at SSD once they leave.

I made chili today just so I have a reason to scrap with a "it's starting to feel like fall" kits that will be hitting new releases. I also took photos of trees that have like one changing leaf on it - because I know these kits are going to be coming fast.

Doing a twist on a girls kit to make it boy like makes me giddy... pretty much anytime I can twist a theme or kit to fit my storyline makes me giddy.

If there is scatter in a kit... I must use it.

I'm allergic to clean layouts... must use everything in the kit and all over my page. My mom is worse than me... her layouts (she does photobooks) are edge to edge photos... she laughs at me when I have only 4 photos on my pages. haha.

 

[allyanne]

I have made my guys change their clothes for certain outings or events, so they'll at least match me and each other--and maybe a specific kit! And when we are out and about or just home doing stuff, I think about how I'll need x-number of photos in both orientations--and then I take them.

 

[Sherri Tierney]

I have to confess ... I use a kit twice and a template once ... AND THEN I DELETE THEM! Also .... I use too many flowers

Do you have any scrapbooking confessions?

HOW??

I have this thing where I need to use a kit as many times as humanly possible and then still keep it around in case I want to scrap with it when I'm 97. A template I have to scrap with it the way it is intended, then flip it every direction imaginable and use it that way too before I feel like I've gotten my use out of it. I think the kit thing stems from having to do 2-4 pages per kit back when I was on creative teams. I just got in the habit of using a kit for several pages before I considered it 'used'.

I have trouble getting rid of kits. I have some things I won't ever use but instead of deleting them, I talk myself into thinking maybe... someday... I'll use them.

 

[Amber Dixon]

I have the opposite problem. I have a hard time deleting kits or templates. It doesn't matter if I am going to use it or not...it is mine and I must keep it. I even have a folder of kits that need to be deleted that I know I won't use but can't bring myself to delete just yet.
I have almost 900 products (kits, packs etc) on my EHD...this doesn't include templates. I can drop that number maybe to 800 or so if I take my personal kits out (the ones I designed in my designing days) but still I have too many and will probably buy more this weekend. LOL

You think that’s a lot? I have 35 folders with 100 complete full-sized kits/collections, each in their own folder titled “kit name - designer,” inside each of them. And folder 36 currently has 32 kits inside it. And don’t even ask me about templates.. I have every single freebie, purchased, ct member template I have ever downloaded since 2007 in a folder on my EHD, that doesn’t include my own templates either. I may have a hoarding problem hahaha!!

 

[StacyLynn]

Hello, My name is Stacy and I am addicted to collecting digital scrapbooking kits....

I have so so so many kits that I have not used yet, but they are so pretty I just can't help myself! LOL

And I have not deleted any that I have paid for... I moved them to an folder called "old kits".

 

[StacyLynn]

Let's just say if digital kits were in a file cabinet, this would be me:

HAHAHAHA.... this is ME!!!!!

 

[JennNtheBoys]

I've never printed a single page...... I have all my albums sorted and ready, but I have never taken the plunge to get them printed. My biggest excuse is that I'd like to print them as books rather than individual pages and I'm afraid I may find out later I missed a page (because that is one of those things I'd have to fix cause it would drive me insane).... so I really need to convince myself to print pages instead... I just like how less bulky books seem vs albums..... I need an intervention. lol

 

[biancka]

delete ?!?!!?!?!?? you're giving me a panic attack. no no no!! my confession is that i am a total hoarder!! LOL Just about a year ago I was able to delete my 2006 to 2010ish scrapkits because I was certain I was never ever going to use those again but recent ones...no, cannot delete.

 

[Ponytails]

I delete templates that I've used, as I only use them once. Even my own... I keep a folder for my templates that I haven't used yet and delete from there once I have. (I do keep my actual template zips in a separate place.)

I rarely delete kits, but once in a while I'll go through and delete the really old stuff, and things from other shops that I know I'll never use. That said, I do have some old favourites from long retired designers that I just can't bear to part with yet.

I actually went through my old EHD a while back and deleted all of my early work. I kept the previews, but trashed everything else. I thought it would be hard, but it was actually rather freeing. LOL

 

[stephc777]

I am a chronic recolorer of elements to match as well - makes me feel better to see I am not the only one =)

I also have a LOT of unused kits/templates. I see something pretty or something I know I have pictures for that are unscrapped and it is hard not to buy them. I have been trying to check my previews of kits I already own to make sure I don't already have a bunch of kits like it (fall kits are apparently my kryptonite because I have a ton of them lol).

 

[Neverland Scraps]

YOU DELETE THEM??? Is that even allowed? I'm pretty sure you're supposed to pay a lot of money to store them on the cloud and on an external hard drive, and if you have to buy two EHDs, it's fine. I still have products from 2010, and I would have some from before that but I lost a lot of stuff in a hard drive crash.

I'm curious if you apply this type of no nonsense to other areas of your life.

I might have just busted out laughing reading that comment
I'm a digital (scrapbooking) hoarder but I apply that in my everyday life.

 

[dinahfig]

Haha! I never delete stuff. Total hoarder here. I spend more time buying and unzipping files than I do using them.

I always do my pages in two page layouts. I like the facing pages in a book to look like they belong together. I think it makes it easier to keep the pages in order too. Lol