How far behind are you?

I'm about 5 years behind on project life, 4 yours behind on december daily and decades behind on my regular scrapbooking.

To me there is no such thing as behind. I don't scrap in chronological order and I scrap whatever I feel like. I just looked in my last pile of layouts I've done and I have photos spanning 25 years. A little of this, a little of that. I would get bored if I had to do them in some kind of order. Some days I feel like scrapping 20 year old baby photos, some days I feel like scrapping something from last week.

I use D-ring albums and I probably have 150 pages that haven't gone in an album yet. I move things around on a whim.

I’m a chronological scrapper. There are some gaps in old albums I’d like to go back and finish this year. I evolved from CM albums to pocket pages to travelers notebooks, and the later years are done. My projects moving forward will revolve around travel, but I have one more empty pocket page album for big family events. After that, who knows? Trying to focus more on art and other creative pursuits.

Years and years behind. I organize my albums chronologically, but I don't scrap that way.

I am pretty current, but I didn’t set out to do a bunch of backlog years when I starting scrapping regularly. However, if time ever allows, I would like to do albums of my college photos (10 years ago).

I consider myself current. I started scrapbooking when I was pregnant with my oldest. So as far as the kids go, I'm up to date. With that said, my life was chaos in 2009 &2010. I just shoved photos in a premade album on Shutterfly. I probably will never go back to those photos because that was a very bad time in my life. Likewise, 2022 stopped in April and I'm going into 2023 but I doubt I will return to 2022. I've given myself permission not to. So, if that's the definition of current than I am.

With that said, I like the idea of telling stories and I just might tell more older stories from my pre-mom days. And I consider myself in post-mom (kid grown) days now and my books have become so much more about me and our life. However, my first grandchild is due in three weeks. So there will be some scrapbooking about him too.

I only started scrapbooking in 2020 (Project Life with some 12x12 layouts for pictures/events that inspire me). I completed my 2020 PL book, but have 3 months left of 2021 and 6 months of 2022 to go (plus I have unfinished December Daily projects for all three years).

We are preparing an out-of-state move, so I had to pack up the vast majority of my supplies back in August to do some work on the house. We've been on the market since November and are still waiting to sell....hopefully it'll go soon so we can move and I can get my supplies back!

Other

I scrap out of order but album chronologically for the most part. I have years that are complete; years with just a few gaps; and years with months of gaps. I tend to scrap a mix of more current photos and older ones.

100% me!

Me, too.

I don’t count the time before I started seriously scrapping as behind. Anything pre-2012, maybe it will never happen. I am behind currently because I haven’t done any 2022 (I mainly do Project Life). I finished 2021 on 12/26. I’m getting 2022 organized now. I have my pictures printed, my ephemera sorted, my details in my planner and I’m ready to start getting stuff in my album. So, I’m technically behind, but feeling good that I’m going to be able to get this album put together relatively easily because I have all my elements ready.

I’m typically a very slow scrapper, but when I have everything ready it can really push through to get it done. I won’t spend a lot of time trying to be creative and trying new things. It’s going to be more picture and who what where.

One thing I’m excited to do differently is doing categories. My monthly Bookclub details will be in one layout instead of spread throughout the months. Same with work related stuff.

Voted other. I have no thoughts of ever being caught up. Caught up is sad to me. Just waiting for memories to make and record? That doesn’t work for me.

I don’t scrap chronologically. I’m currently working on December Daily from days ago. I have photos from Aug-November of 2022 waiting for PL. A travel album from 2021 that I want to make. And baby photos to scrap from my almost 16 year old twins. I have many many years to work through my memories. I’m not in a hurry and have zero plans to ever be current.

ETA - the only thing I try to stay current on is my kids school albums. I display them at graduation. It took every free moment this past May to complete 6th through 12th for my graduating senior. Never again. 😂

I'm also an "other". I don't consider whether I'm behind, on schedule or somewhere in between. I don't scrapbook chronologically - I create whatever inspires me in the moment. Sometimes I start with particular photos, sometimes it's a sketch or other 2peas challenge, etc. Layouts are placed into albums that are chronological, though.

Other...I guess? I consider myself to be "years & years behind" because I'm close to 2.5 years behind. BUT...I only say that because I started with my oldest son was 3 months old. For several years I was able to stay 2-6 months behind (one time I was actually caught up and enjoyed it for one retreat because I was able to work on trip albums from before kids and before I started scrapbooking). It has slowly stretched from one year behind, to 2 years behind, etc. I don't care so much about being behind, but I'm starting to forget why I took some of the pictures that I took--I know there's a story, but I've forgotten because of how much time has passed. I also don't care because as my boys get older (both in high school now) the fun stories are fewer and fewer even though I have tons of pictures to do because I take waaaaaaay too many at football & baseball games.

Thankfully I never planned to have all/most of DS's albums out at his graduation party, otherwise I'd be frantically scrambling to catch up! I plan to do some photo displays, include a bunch of photos under clear tablecloths on the tables, and maybe put out his trip album from his German trip last summer (if I ever get it started...and finished).