When You Forget You Have Already Scrapped It

Haha! Too funny! I only did this once and liked both pages so much I just put them side by side in the book. I am more likely to keep reprinting photos thinking I haven't printed them, even in the same photo order! I will have like 3 copies of the same photo.

I have gone so far as to create a layout and discovered it was a duplicate when placing it in my album. Argghhh!

I keep my photos in manila envelopes standing up in magazine holders. They are sorted by activity. For example, Christmas 2016, Terry's birthday, etc. There could be one or twenty photos in an envelope.

Then I list the envelopes in a notebook. I cross them out when I have scrapped the photos. This has kept me from printing them again.

I do it, but on purpose. Some pics are worth it.

I have done this, about 4 times I think, I keep both pages.

It's nice to know I am not the only one who has done this!

I have scrapbooked some of the same photos for my son's pages. I often make compelation pages and use 5 photos from 5 different events but then forget when I do one a few months later.

Yes! I've done it with my son's baby book. I also scrapped my daughter's 5th and 6th birthday with the same pictures!

I do use some photos in more than one LO on purpose (for example on a calendar page and in an album, or in a baby book and in my regular album) so I often have printed duplicates of photos. I put my pages into albums pretty quickly, and if I am going back to scrap something from an earlier album, I often go back and leaf through it, just to get the vibe and where this page might fit in. So that means I am less likely to scrap the same event with the same photos.

And I sort my prints and put them with a list of possible titles which I check off when I have completed that series of pix, so that helps.

I have sometimes printed the same photo a second time, thinking I need to scrap it, then come home with the print to realize I already have that page done, or at least that photo already printed. My photos, like my supplies, play tricks on me: so I go to print a particular series of photos, but then can't find them all on my camera card or phone. Or I THINK I have printed them all only to come home and realize one is missing.

I scrapped a photo of my mother holding dd2 as a brand new infant twice. I kept both layouts, back to back in a page protector.

The funny thing is, I scrapped them totally differently. The only thing the same is the photo itself.



To avoid rescrapping things unintentionally, I print each month's photos every month. Usually print the previous month's pics on the first of the next month.

It doesn't happen often to me because of the way I print and store my photos...however I did scrap my last son's birth announcement twice! I just kept both layouts. One went in my pregnancy album and one went in his album.