When do you finally decide to cancel a subscription?

I tend to only cancel for either financial reasons or if I'm not enjoying/get bored of the designs and products. But if I like the products and can afford it, I tend to keep my subs, even if I'm not scrapping or crafting as much as I would like.

"ComplicatedLady" but I don’t know where the line is between scrapping and collecting!

WAIT! There's an actual line? I always thought they were part and parcel.

I just canceled my Club Echo Park subscription because the papers are not always what I’ll use for my layouts. But then I turned around and subbed to their card kit!

It’s a sickness, I tell ya!

I've cancelled for both money and boredom with the designs. I got rid of the AE story kit and stamps because her color palettes aren't to my taste a lot of the time (I favor cooler tones), and it is expensive to just get them m2m. I do have an annual sub to the SBTM kit, but I'll probably cancel it again in December once my year is up.

I have an annual subscription for KP/Paper Person, and while I've been disappointed with the 3x4 stamp sets over the past two months, it is generally worth it to me to keep the annual sub for the early access to the shop, free shipping for add ons, and subber discounts.

I've been looking at my non crafty subs lately, and I've decided to cancel them all. Ipsy just never sent me what I wanted and Causebox (now Alltrue) has increased their shipping times while their quality has decreased (and I disliked how they made their new member boxes/welcome boxes better than their seasonal boxes). I'm cancelling Fabfitfun because the fall box doesn't excite me at all, and I buy way too much during their add on and edit sales.

I just lost my job, so I'm glad I'd made the decision about my subscriptions before I lost the job - it will make it much less painful to let go of those things without feeling like I'm making a big sacrifice.

I quit Hip Kit last year because my kits were piling up. The kits are fantastic but I fell behind traveling for work all of the time. I have found that I prefer buying collections that I like rather than subbing. I can pick and choose what I want.

I cancel when I find I'm not using anything from the kit. I had a short run with Cocoa Daisy-I LOVED the product-but it's nothing I can scrap book with. I canceled AE Story kit and Stamp both last year, but I will resub with some of the upcoming Story Kits.

The only long term scrapbook subs I’ve had are AE. I have canceled a few times over the years when I felt uninspired or tired of the product, or if the upcoming themes don’t interest me. I’ve been subbing here and there monthly for a theme I really like. I really have too much stuff and am a bad FOMO buyer.

Non scrapbook related subs I’ve had and LOVED (Book of the Month & The Crafters Workshop) I canceled both when life got too busy and the boxes were piling up.

I have zero subs at the moment and while I miss the monthly treats it’s also freeing. I’ve just been trying to use my stash, read from my TBR stack or go to the library.

When things get repetitive and I no longer get excited by the sub, when money gets tight, or when I have too many kits piling up. But, when I really love a sub, I’ll do everything I can to keep it.

This is me, but I generally don’t have multiple kits going. I have been a Cocoa Daisy subscriber for years, but am getting ready to finally quit because I have multiple kits stacked up that I want to use, and I am finding that the kits are too heavily themed for the way I usually scrap now (I sub to the Modern Memory Keeping kit).

I bought a couple of Hip Kit Club kits, and am really loving getting a 12x12 kit again, so I think I will drop Cocoa Daisy and sub to Hip Kit instead. 

I also sub to the Paper Person kit, and won’t give that one up.

I think collecting is OK (within reason)! If these kits inspire you, and you said money was not an issue and you do really like them, and you will probably use them in time, I think it is OK to keep the subs for awhile. If you don't get the kits, and later the pieces that make up the kit are sold out, would that make you feel worse to have missed out? Or do you feel worse if you get them and not use them?

For me, I feel like the selection for new supplies isn't all that great at this point in time, so if a kit inspired me and captured the essence of the "best of" current products, I would keep it provided cost is not an issue. I guess I am worried the selection will be worse next year.

Although, I'm someone who is so happy to have "overbought" a bit (relative to what I actually use) during scrapbooking's heyday so I have more stash to work with now when the buying choices are more limited. So you can tell I'm leaning into that experience.

I have space issues, as well as guilt about wasting money on things I’m not using. I am not subbed to anything and I don’t miss any of the subs I did have. Since having to relocate to a smaller craft space I’ve been purging. I still need to do more. I actually feel much lighter and more inspired not being bogged down by too much stuff and too many choices.

All that said, it really depends on you. If you can afford it, don’t feel bad about collecting, keep on keeping on. It’s buyers like you who contribute a lot to the choices all of us have. If manufacturers relied on people like me, they’d all go out of business.

I'm not a collector by nature. My brain just doesn't work that way. So, for me, a sub becomes a burden when it piles up and becomes a collection rather than pretty immediate inspiration. I like to work in the moment with subs. I might make exceptions for very specifically themed products I know will be used for planned projects but otherwise, I have a let's-break-into-this-and-start-using-it mindset. 

It's not the same for others, though. Some people really enjoy having the full set or knowing they've got all the supplies from a particular vendor from the past X months/years. As long as the collection's not a burden (finances, physical space, mental space, stress/worry), I see no problem with this although I'd hope they'd be comfortable breaking away from the sub if it wasn't satisfying anymore. Sometimes there's something better out there and you just need to take a leap of faith to let go of one thing to find another... 

I will say, challenging myself to use up my backlogged subscriptions before I can re-sub has been a good motivator for me in the past.

I cancel when a subscription is not meeting my needs anymore.  Whether that be my recent foray from traditional scrapbooking to project life or that I'm not using the kits because they don't seem suitable for my aesthetic anymore.  I quit Scraproom a while back before I turned to project life.  The kits were piling up because they just weren't my style.  I had picked up a few random Hip Kits and that seemed more my style.  So when I turned over to project life, I quit all 12x12 kits and I went with Hip Kit's pocket kit.  I like that it's kind of monthly because I am a chronological scrapbooker.  (my books are all current) and then just recently I subbed to AE story kit because that looked fun to me and was in my price point.  

I am a small stash scrapper so I want to ensure that what I'm bringing in will actually be used by me.  And on the regular.  No piling up for me.