2023 Freezer Thread

I’m in the same boat. I have sooo much and could likely scrap for years without a necessary purchase. I need to use some things I have, like new things in a package before spending!

I'm in the freezer for a while. Like Chinagirl828, I am doing the 50 page challenge but would like to go longer without buying.

I do have 2 planned purchases for January and photo supplies & adhesive are always permitted. Other than that, I am planning to stay frozen until Vicki Boutin's next line is released.

I am also frozen for January/the 50 layouts challenge. I can buy glue, if needed.

I don't anticipate being handed any monetary gifts this month, but any and all are welcome and can be used on scrappy supplies! 😆

Maybe not frozen but I'm going to hide in the back of the fridge where it's really chilly. I'm definitely not buying anything new until I've used the things I got during the holidays and even though my brain is telling me I need new paper so I can use up some old die cuts I'm going to try to put that off for a while.

I'm absolutely fed up with the constant emails from scrapbk dot com, who I can't seem to unsub from, so I'm going to set up a rule in gmail to funnel those out of my inbox. Emailing me twice a day is a surefire way to make me stop looking at your emails at all and if there's a sale every day I'm going to put off shopping for a couple more weeks (which then stretches into months). Every day I hate them a little bit more.

I have 3 Ali Subscriptions. For the scrapbook subscription, I have one more before I can cancel. 2 more story kits before I can cancel, and 2 more SBTM kits before I can cancel. After all of those are done, I'm canceling everything. I'm also trying to not buy any other supplies other than adhesive and cardstock. My booty needs to get in the freezer and stay there!

I finally managed to unsubscribe to the ones that were overwhelming me (I think) but for a while I created a rule so that I could still get to coupon codes if I was shopping somewhere and wanted to find an email-only code. It worked so well that I never actually shopped at those places because I didn't see their emails and so I never needed the codes! (and I use Honey for most codes anyway).

Yesterday was one week without buying any scrappy supplies.
I truly need to be frozen, I am literally running out of room. Like linda, I even need to say no to the thrift store/"hey do you want this free thing" scrappy items.
I do have my birthday coming up and I usually go to the scrap store and treat myself to a little shopping spree, but I think instead I will ask for a gift card, which will delay the spending a little and maybe I can wait for some new releases and then be able to splurge. My plan is in that time to shop my supplies.

I was comfortably frozen until I saw a sneak peak of Pinkfresh’s new spring collection. I already know I won’t be able to resist it. I can easily pass on all the other spring releases, though.

Count me in, excluding items needed for organization and adhesive. I'm trying to get my supplies better organized so I don't buy things I already have because I can't find them.

Updated 1/23/2023: Well it's only the 23rd, and I've already fallen out of the freezer.....found some great Christmas papers - only 10 of them, and 2 packages of coordinating ephemera, so only about $25 total. I think it was the 10% off scrapbook.com coupon that pushed me over the edge combined with not being able to find coordinating patterned paper for the page I was working on. Back in the freezer now.

This past year, I've been rebuilding my stash from almost zero, which means that I have been spending wayyyyy more than I want to. But now I'm at the point where my stash is getting reasonably workable for making the projects I want to make, so it is definitely time for me to chill out on buying.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been mostly but not totally frozen, so I guess that means I am joining Joblackford in the chilly depths of the fridge.

I've been climbing out of the freezer when I am crafting along and I hit a brick wall because I've come across something I really and truly needed to proceed, but I didn't have that thing stashed already. (The items in this category are mostly reinkers for my ink pads, and in some cases, colors of ink that I don't have).

And I climbed out of the freezer again last week when Katie Pertiet put a couple of her truly amazingly beautiful digital kits on sale for $1.99 each. And I will probably give in and do the same later this week if she has another "Thrifty Thursday" sale that includes items I'd be likely to use multiple times.

And I'm definitely going to have to spend some money on photo printing.

And I'm low on white cardstock, and trying to avoid using it unless I absolutely need it, but I will have to resupply eventually.

And I want to do SBCFest 2023 in March. I'm mostly going to try to do it from stash, but looking at the supply bundles they have posted, I can see that I will not be able to totally do it from stash. I don't own many dies, and the few I do own don't look like they would work for those projects. So I'm trying to figure out which of the dies in the bundles would be a good long-term investment for me given the other, non-SBCFest projects I want to make.

I guess all the above means I am chilled but not frozen.

Weirdly I found watching others do it was helpful in motivating me. I watched these videos when I had time, and then set aside 2 hours (I did need to break it up) and put on some workout (ewww) motivating music. 


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dta7qcjY8


www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjcbxKDDIm4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHf-uaQhj2Y (More fabric than paper, but still...talk about trying to work in a small space) 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJslk-OUQ0Y (for paper particularly, I really liked this) 

I think the lineup of teachers looks fantastic! But it is really hard to tell which classes will be of interest, because I didn't see any project pics, just the supply lists. If they have pics posted, I missed seeing them.

I asked Paige Evans about her project on Instagram, and she says it is going to be a mini album. I love, love, LOVE her mini albums, so I am definitely planning to watch her class. I asked her about it because she has a 12"X12" pad on her supply list, and I scrap 6"x8", so I asked if the 6"x8" pad would work for her project, and she said it would. 

Hmmm. Maybe we should start a separate thread about SBCFest so we do not derail the people in the freezer.

Edited to add: I just started a new thread about SBCFest here:

2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/136458/sbcfest-2023

Important note: The SBCFest video classes are totally free, so if you can work from stash, there is no need to leave the freezer...

 I say, if you can use the stuff in more than a dozen projects, it is definitely a good value -- get it, use it and enjoy it.

I should really stay out of the freezer thread because, obviously, I am a bad influence. Please forgive me?

Lots of good ideas there. 

Why not buy it, use it for what you need, and then resell it when you're finished with it? Hard to go wrong doing that, I think...Or swap stamps with another Pea who also has stamps s/he's finished using.