What old stuff do you use?

I use a lot of old stuff. I don't think I could list it all. A few of them are:

* My daughter's CuttleKids die cutting machine. I bought it for her when she was about 7 years old (she just turned 21 last month!).
* My purple Fiskars paper trimmer that I bought in 2004.
* My Crop in Style Navigator rolling tote (2004)
* My Crop in Style Paper/Sticker Binders. (2001)

Papers: I store my papers by theme, so the old and new is often mixed together, and I mix and match on my pages. So BoBunny and Cosmo Cricket and LYB will often make an appearance. And I have half a drawer of Basic Grey that I go to often when I need subtle background patterns.

CM cutting tools. I have some of the different shapes, but the circles are the ones that get the most use when I need just the right size for my LO.

My Crop-A-dial comes out whenever I need a hole punched through more than one layer. Or if I decide to use my eyelets. The other day I wanted to place an eyelet a few inches in from the edge and I actually used my MM punching and setting tools--and a HAMMER!!! (I actually have the Crop-A-dial that reaches that far, but it seemed easier for one eyelet to just go old school).

My punches are on an open shelf and I often go to them when I need them, especially for borders.

Twines and ribbons come out to play on occasion. Even have some raffi peeking out of that bin: may need to use THAT for something soon.

Still use my Creative Memories corner rounder and punches. Recently cleaned out and purged some old, old supplies, but kept most of the Making Memories metal embellishments and journaling spiral pads to use up.

I still use my Colluzzle from time to time, a real throw back....Also recently unearthed a bunch of KI Memories acrylics, including the Soup Can alphas, and have some layouts planned for those.

I am still purging really old supplies, but trying to use at least one thing from my old stash on each layout—gotta use it or lose it!

I just used my cm oval cutter for a batman card.
I use brads and buttons all the time on my cards and scrapbooks.
I have a couple of grey fiskars trimmers (werent they the original one? Lol). Its hard to find the blades but i never had an issue w the trimmer like others did.

I use my Coluzzle, too!

Chalk - I especially like using it to color dry-embossed paper.

Eyelets and brads make their way into my work - I still have some shaped eyelets that I should probably purge, though.

I use pretty much anything and everything I ever had if it is still in my stash.  I still pick up old product off give away tables at crops, IF I think I will use it.

I still use my old rolling totes - the Navigator and XL.  I have my Navigator in my car right now.  My adhesive of choice is hermafix dotto, and I've been using it since it came out for scrapbookers whenever that was - early 2000's.

There sure was some ugly product back in scrapbooking's early heyday.  But I hang on to it because many of those themes were never seen again, even in their ugly original form.  Manufacturers don't come to mind but it was back in Paper Pizazz era and a bit later!

This is a fun memory lane thread.  If I come across anything while this thread is still active I'll come back and post a pic or two! 

This thread had me thinking. I put up a poll in my Facebook group on which collection should I use today. The "newest" collection was 2011. The collection that won the poll was Basic Grey Blush from 2006. It drives me a bit batty when it feels like we're being told we need to use the most recent stuff or our creations aren't that good. I'm all about mixing the old with the new. I loved it once. If I still love it, why not use it?

Here's my layout using that 2006 collection.

lilacgal, that page is amazing! Those colours are perfect for what looks like a heritage photo. Love the pleated doily and the that tucked in heart!

I use whatever suits my project, whether it is old or not.

I still use some of the first stamp sets I ever purchased. I'm sure my family and friends are getting sick of the SU sentiment that I've been stamping inside their birthday cards for 22 years now:

"May the simple joys of life fill this special day and be yours throughout the coming year." But I still mean that!

If it is still in my room, I will use it. I am good at purging, so the things I have, I will use. I keep trying to come up with ways to remember what I have.

I have finally pulled out baby photos and products I purchased from twenty years ago to make a baby book. I was going to get all new products for the project, but decided to just go with what I had purchased in the early 2000s for an appropriate feel for the times. There’s lots of Debbie Mumm and Suzi’s Zoo designs, all things I still enjoy. Some of the stickers from that time are pretty awful, though, so I may skip them. We will see how it looks, I certainly have a less is more approach now that I did not have when I started scrapping 25 years ago.

I still use my CM corner rounder, circle templates, and some of their punches.
I've been pulling out more brads to use on my pages lately.
I still have SEI, KI, BG, and all kinds of random paper from back in the day in my stash.

Love all these memories! The OG item that always makes me laugh is my Making Memories Slice spatula because I got rid of my MM Slice years ago but kept the spatula because I really love the shape of it!

Regarding loving old collections, I absolutely have some that I love, but sometimes I also look at some of the papers from the more grungy phase of scrapbooking and I shudder. The funny thing is, I loved those designs back then...and I'm sure grunge will come back into fashion again...but right now it just seems so dated! Same way that I can't believe biker shorts have made a comeback...that is one 90s trend I wish had died!