True Confession: Scrapbook Style..what don't you like to SB?

anything where there are a TON of photos - I get overwhelmed

Any milestone event. My wedding for example. We just celebrated 20 years on June 29. Still haven’t documented it. I don’t enjoy doing birthdays either.

Me - My dog? Yes. My cup of tea? Absolutely. My daughter’s stripy socks? Of course. Twice in fact!

Also me - Her first birthday? Heavens, no! Her first year monthly pictures? You’ve got to be kidding me! First day of kindergarten? Have you lost your mind???

Vacations. I always have too many pictures.

Christmas photos for sure! I still do December Daily but for some reason I'm good with that. Maybe less pressure to perfect photos for 1 day? I also don't like Halloween pictures because we live in the north and most pictures of kids in costumes have winter clothing underneath or snow plus bad lighting and it's just not a good combo.

This! I have too many auditorium shots. It is hard to make playing the clarinet on stage look interesting year after year. The same with awards ceremonies. I love scrapping the kids with their clarinet, or marching band, or the kids with their awards- but photos of them in the band on stage or being handed an award? So not interesting.


I don't mind Christmas ones much but they often aren't my favorite. We don't do a lot of Christmas activities. Most of my photos are of Christmas morning and the only way you can tell them apart is that the kids keep getting bigger. I think I'm going to have to plan Christmas activities just to have more selection. 

We always open presents at my sister's house and she has this big rust colored couch that seems to dominate the photos so I struggle with scrapping those photos with red and green. I never thought about it before but I do tend to avoid using red papers with those photos. Also, the tree always photographs blue for some reason, so I use a lot of blue if the tree is in the shot. I love that there are a lot more Christmas lines with blue now.

I won't be scrapbooking the vintage photos and polaroids, I have from the 60's and 70's. 
They reside in a decorative box.

How to word this? I could not care less if there are few photos of me in my family album. I have scrapped my life, but it's only for me. Those albums; pre-kids are tucked away. I don't care about leaving a legacy. It can all be burned when I die.

I mainly scrap events. It's not that I loathe pages with lots of journaling and telling a story, I LOVE THEM. It's just not me. I'm content to scrap the basics of who, what, where, and why. The why, if included is very brief. It feels very contrived when I get wordy.

Another preference, I prefer to scrap the happy things. Sure, I've scrapped the bad, but I personally dwell too much on that in my head. I don't want or need a visual reminder. I can't imagine putting the entire truth about my life on paper. It would read like a white trash novel. 🤣

ETA: I completely misread the question! My comprehension skills suck today. The answer; my photos are just ok. It's usually the topic that I find hard to scrap. Like stories. A photo of a person. No event, no background. I just like the photo. Those are hard.

Holidays and events. Christmas Day photos, Easter Day, especially. Birthdays too.

I used to think it was because I end up with a lot of photos of these events, but I also end up with tons of travel photos and Disney trip pics and I LOVE to scrap those things.

Same, I did a photo book for my wedding but haven't scrapped a single photo. I also haven't scrapped any of my daughter's birthdays (she's 7) or her baby book/milestones.



This too! I have been trying to get ruthless with deleting multiple photos of the same thing so I don't get overwhelmed but I still get overwhelmed.



I stopped buying Christmas scrappy supplies because I have not made any holiday albums for myself. I did make one for my friend's mom years ago but haven't done a single one for me.

My Christmas photos are always so busy that I don't enjoy scrapping them. I like the small moments, like making breaksfast with my grandson or something like that.

I can’t get motivated to scrap anything in with a bad picture.

I also don’t like to scrap Christmas because it is just the same thing over and over. I love actual Christmas, just not scrapping it.

For me there are two things I dislike scrapping: Halloween when the kids were little, and all those indoor school concerts/ceremonies. I've scrapped only ONE year of Halloween, and hated the original pages so much that I actually went back and re-did them. I like them so much better now, but it took 2 tries! I dread doing the other years of Halloween...

Indoor school concerts and ceremonies are difficult for the reasons mentioned above - low lighting, other people's heads, tiny shot of kid amongst the crowd, etc. And then there's my my own special struggles: flutist in the front row who did NOT want to be seen so moved her chair so as to be unphotographable (DD2, I'm looking at you!), and DS the percussionist who was always way in the back by design so no good photos of him for school concerts either.

Bad stuff. I don’t scrap the bad stuff. My scrapbooks are sunshine & roses

It’s not like I’m going to forget the bad stuff. I just don’t feel like memorializing it either.

There a smidge of rough stuff in my memory planners, but just a factual mention if it’s there.

I’m not glorifying, and accessorizing the shittiest stuff that happens to me. I’m just not.

Ok well, that one time I scrapped a picture of me holding my dads hand on his death bed. But only because, as difficult as that night was ( hardest of my life ) I will treasure those moments forever and I’m thankful to have had them. And yes, I did take the picture on purpose, on my crappy flip phone, I sort of knew it was the last thing I’d share with my dad and I ‘needed’ that picture.

But other than that, I’m not accessorizing and embellishing shitty stuff.

Oh artbabe, you really need to do a sb layout about that big rust couch! So funny!