Do you have to love it to use it?

If I had to love it I would rarely scrap anything. As a theme scrapper as long as it works with my photos I'm going to use it. Don't get me wrong, I like lots and lots of my product/supplies but I will use product I don't even like that much if it is the thing to work on my pages.

I don't have to absolutely love it but I've definitely cleared out some stuff I didn't like any more or couldn't see myself using.

Have to love it otherwise the layout will definitely be redone sometime down the road. I won't buy anything I don't love and if I've got stuff in my stash that doesn't measure up, I'll use it on a card or give it away.

I don't think there's much in my stash I don't care for. There might be things that are uninspiring, but eventually it'll come back around to me.

I do a fairly okay job at getting rid of supplies that are now out of touch with the memories I have to work with. Like, elementary school, I'm done with all of that, so I got rid of it. I no longer need to work with winter as a huge theme (XDH was a snowmobiling fanatic). Stuff like that. I try to keep my stash current to life, and then use it when I have it. I Ike's it once, or I wouldn't have bought it, so I use it

Guess the best I can respond is it depends... I can love a set of supplies one day and find absolutely no use for it the next. Or love something so much I am afraid to use it today in case I need it for a better project later. A collection may not speak to me at all until I see its possibilities on a blog or Pinterest.

I might go to bed hating a LO I have in progress and wake up full of ideas on what to do to revive it. I can tame a wild pp by putting it behind a plainer one. Or recolour a blah one with sprays or inks or paint. Or diecut some shapes or grab some premodern embellishments, and everything works.

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Haha!  That is what I have been doing too!  Making cards using the lesser loved/haven't used in forever/out of style items in my stash.  My absolute faves, I cannot part with so they stay in my albums WITH ME where I can enjoy them FOREVER (now I feel like some creep on Criminal Minds).  I start with a pack of embellishments, pick out matchng papers, and make a few cards OR start with old PP or cardstock and make my own embellishments to match.  I have just recently started making cards and fallen behind on PL and layouts bc they just got to be too monotonous for me.  Also, making cards makes me feel like I can save money (justify my scrappy spending), one little card at a time.  And I hope to be able to use up some of my Christmas stash bc I canNOT control myself when it is time to get prepped for December Daily. 

I only buy supplies that I like, fits my style, & will actually be used...eventually!

Exactly.

Like Elsabelle and streetscrapper said, I end up hating the layout if I try to force using something, especially paper.

I absolutely have to love my supplies to put it on a project. I don't have any supplies that i dont absolutely love anyway. If i didn't love something, then i don't get using it on a project just to use it up, otherwise i wouldn't love my finished project.

I don't know about loving it, but I have to like it at least a little. Or remember why I liked it and bought it in the first place.

There are things I like in my scraproom I haven't touched. Not because of my feelings for it, just the volume of things I have.

It's more a volume thing. I'll get to all the things eventually. Or I won't. I'm trying not to stress over that kind of thing. That makes my scrappy life happier and better.

I can relate to this. What helps me is putting the less inspiring items with other products I love together on one layout. If it has too many of the meh items I wouldn't like it, but I can deal with it if there are just a couple mixed in.

If I don't like something I purge it. I have too much stuff. I don't love everything but have to like it. If I don't think I will use something it gets purged.