S/O Why do you keep scrapping what you don't like to scrap?

I answered on that thread - I answered bad pictures (and I don’t scrap those) and Christmas. For Christmas I just add a couple
Pics to my PL for the week- no separate pages and certainly no December daily album! Lol

I'm learning to pick and choose photos more when there are a ton. Also to take breaks and scrap something different. It's usually less that I don't want to scrap them and more that the number of photos is overwhelming for me

In the other thread, my answer was >> I don't scrapbook vintage or polaroid photos from the 1960's and 1970's.
The quality of the photos aren't the best, so I choose not to scrapbook them.

When I first started scrapbooking (fall 1996), it was because I saw an acquaintances scrapbooks and thought were cute, and I wanted to do that with my photos as well.
As time has passed and the years go by, my reason for scrapbooking has been add to.....in addition to how cute my scrapbooks are, my scrapbooks help me remember all the things I've forgotten from over the years. Especially when I have moments or days, when I feel like life, time, years are going by and I've done nothing. My scrapbooks remind me, I have done a lot. The pages are filled with memories.

In addition, scrapbooking is my therapy. It helps me fill some of my time. It gives me a something to focus on, when my emotions and feelings are out of sorts. It makes me feel happy and content.
I enjoy all of it.......assembling the pages, figuring out what I going to use on a page, looking back through all of my scrapbooks, organizing my scrapbook stuff, reading and participating on the message boards, looking at ideas online, following other scrapbookers or mixed media artists on social media, shopping for products, the feeling I get when others view my scrapbooks and they oohhh and aahhh and reminisce about a time, a moment, an occasion we shared.
I love everything about scrapbooking (except when my now passed...beloved cat, felt it was her right to be in the middle of my scrapbooking....that annoyed me . 

I answered in that thread, twice in fact. I guess deep down it feels similar to my daughter and math. She’s always telling me she’s not good at it. I tell her she is good at it. “But, mom, I don’t like math.” I smile at her and remind her for what feels like the hundredth time, “You don’t have to like something to be good at it.” I can always scrapbook things I don’t like. They’re not my favorite things, but I don’t hate them. Broccoli isn’t my favorite but I can’t get by eating only chocolate chip cookies (though some days I wish I could!). I do Journal Your Christmas so Christmas does get documented. I just feel like there should be a couple 12x12 layouts in the big albums too. Birthdays should feel acknowledged. Yet another Valentines Day too. I think the only holiday I enjoy scrapping is Independence Day because we’re usually visiting my family in VA. Seeing all the cousins running around and playing together…it feels more magical than the stressed out Christmas visits.

I feel like I’m rambling. So, to sum up, I scrapbook the things I don’t like because I feel like they should be included. They’re important to my husband and daughter. Because they are important to me, I do it for them. It’s a way I show I love them.

There are very few things I refuse to scrapbook. One of my dad’s ex girlfriends tore my family apart. I refuse to have her in any part of my scrapbooks. She was a mean-spirited, spiteful bitch who did her best to separate my dad from his four daughters. She is one reason I’ve not scrapbooked my wedding. She was there. She’s in the family photos. I don’t know how to deal with that, and it’s been twenty years.

For the longest time, I refused to scrapbook about my pacemaker. A few years ago I did a page with a hidden photo and a put the picture of my first device in there after I got it back. I still haven’t journaled though. That was 2006, and I’m still processing through those feelings too. I can talk about it, but writing those thoughts down…I just can’t. Not yet at least. Maybe one day.

Did I even answer your question? I’m going to go take an anxiety pill and color now. I hope my lengthy reply makes sense to someone. 💜

I scrapbook my Christmas photos even if they are too busy, because it's usually a fun day. It would seem strange to me to exclude Christmas from my books every year.

I guess I could say it's more that they are a challenge than say I dislike scrapping them.

It's kind of like my daughter's old elementary school pictures. Every year I would pay in advance for the school pictures and then be disappointed because I didn't like the way they turned out. NOW I look at those pictures and they look cute to me. Same with most of the pictures I scrapbooked half heartedly, now I look at them and like them more and am glad I made the layouts.

Also sometimes I am not quite satisfied with a layout but usually once I put them in the page protector I like them better. Maybe when I put them in the album psychologically they look more complete to me?

100% agree with this...except for Christmas. There is something that feels so wrong about not scrapping Christmas, even though it seems like a PITA. One thing I did try a few years ago was to move Christmas LO to one big book and just have that for Christmas, that did help. What I need to do (and have been working on) is weeding out the Christmas paper I don't like. I realized that I dislike the more traditional Christmas colors and motifs, and probably need to focus on using supplies that bring me joy to use, instead of working with pics I already find challenging and supplies that I borderline hate, just to use them up and not be wasteful.

Someone mentioned this too, and I think I am going to try it this year. We just take the same boring boring photos every Christmas, so this coming year I am going to make a list of snapshots I really want to get that are meaningful, like maybe instead of photos of the kids ripping into gifts, (which always look so chaotic) a pic of each kid with their fave gift.