Biggest crafty regret

I’m pretty much over it now but I regretted the one and only purge I ever did because I still look for things I got rid of.

I absolutely regret buying all the paint pens from the Dylusions line that are all garbage now. Complete waste of money. The original Dylusions paint pots were also a bad purchase. The paint is wonderful but the packaging was a poor design and they started drying up. I salvaged most of them but it was an absolutely annoying and messy half day project of pouring paint into bottles. I regret buying any sort of paint, gesso, matte medium product that comes with a screw top lid.
I’m starting to regret all the ink sprays I bought (a lot!) because they are all getting clogged. I should’ve researched these products better.

Lastly I regret hoarding stuff instead of using it. Things do start to go bad and fall apart after awhile.

This^^^

But I do think in the beginning you do have to buy the "in" things or from a sale to see what your style is. I have a lot of sets that I purchased that I'm all "what was I thinking". LOL! 

Oh no, don't remind me of the Studio G stamps. Ugh, they were horrible. Thankfully they're all gone from my stash.

One woman's regret is another one's love!  I have all of these -12 of the large ones.  I found most of them at Ross for $9.99 though.  I store them on my door, so they don't take up valuable space.  I use them all of the time.

Ha ha, @zingermack and 950nancy! I have a couple of those big ones which I use from time to time, and co-own a set of the smaller ones but have used only the snowflake with any regularity. I don't regret buying them: they are part of my arsenal of possibilities.

I regret buying die sets that have a ton of tiny pieces and no outline die to help with their placement on a layered or paper-pieced final product. I have either used the set once with great difficulty and then promptly lost one or more of the tiny essential dies, or just left the whole thing in the package and never once used it.

Washi...I forgot washi! I wish I only bought a few select rolls. I threw a bunch of it away because it went bad. And some I use for around the house. Kind of like a post-it note, but homemade with washi tape.

Yes to this. I hoarded a bunch of stuff and some of the kits I purchased in the past have rusted embellishments or just aren't something I will use anymore. I'm trying so hard to not hoard as much as I used to.

Washi also was a huge impulse hoarding buy but now my 5 year old has helped me "use" a ton of it so at least someone is using it up!

My biggest regret is also not using supplies when they first come in the door, I have had to give away a lot of supplies from my earlier days of scrapbooking in the late 90s/early 2000s that I no longer like.

I also regret buying so many collection kits when I really only like a few papers from different lines.

I also have too many die cuts. WAY too many die cuts. Now that I am scrapping more and settling into my own style, I find that I don't use tons of embellishments on a page, so the stickers and die cuts go a long way

My only real crafting regrets were purchases I made when I was in my 20s. I worked in an art supplies store, and I was so tempted to try everything. I ended up buying an air brush and a compressor, and never even used them. I eventually gave them away to an aspiring art student.

Plain chipboard. I have a whole drawer of it and never got the hang of putting paper on it and using it on a layout.

I just bought one of these a year ago. I actually love it. It gives some variety to my pages (which tend to be all straight lines).

My regrets: like many of you, I bought things because they were in style. I felt like I was *supposed* to like them, so I bought them.

So here I sit with a stash of Basic Grey and SEI that I won't use. 

Hands downs, the Blade Runner. Even bought the dang twice because after I got rid of the first one, I thought it was due to operator error. 2nd one proved it was junk.

Some of my purchases go WAY back, but since I spent a few hours today with some cursory organizing on my way to lofty organizational goals, I regret buying and buying and buying because things were on sale or clearance. Now that includes stores going out of business, clearance sales, yard sales, free give away tables. I have a desperate need to buy something that is cheap because I MIGHT use it.

AS a result, my stash is into at least 4 rooms of my house. I am very reluctant to get rid of anything either because if I ever need it I will be upset with myself. Now when LSS were bountiful, I sold lots of stuff at scrapbook yard sales. So much of what I might have regretted is long gone. I know back then I sold stuff I wish I had, like Disney stuff. Fortunately Disney is one of those themes I can still get.

Other than that, I had bought a used Brother Scan and Cut but I sold it pretty quickly, jars of Prima flowers I still have some of, lots of shape eyelets but I managed to pawn most of those off, I never got into stamping so I only have a few.

Lots of regrets that I spent so much money on stuff I haven't yet used with so much left.

Stamps and stickers. I like the stickers, but I just have way too many. I mean a ridiculous amount.

950nancy Your craft area is gorgeous!

Too many stickers, I prefer die cuts and rarely use stickers yet I was buying the stickers to go with every collection. Also I have found kits don't work for me, I am better off just picking out a few pieces I like from collections.