breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 15, 2023 15:43:30 GMT
Having just spent $80 on page protectors ... has anyone ever thought about ditching the albums and page protectors completely and just keeping the pages in a box?  I could buy a lot of other supplies for $80... ETA: I ordered 150 from J's, and used a 40% off my entire order coupon and it was over $75 so shipping was free. They're the kind with Mickey Mouse on the box (because I hate all the plastic I have to throw away from other brands). This should last me at least two or three years. Now to find 12 by 12 albums that aren't $40 each... |
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Post by Linda on Feb 15, 2023 16:04:18 GMT
the cost of 12x12 albums/page protectors was the reason I started scrapping with 8.5x11 back in 2002 and I never switched. I can get page protectors at the office store in a box of 200 and I get my albums at 40% off at HL.
They certainly aren't the most fun to spend scrappy money on but I much prefer flipping through an album to flipping through pages in a box so...
Hopefully you'll be all set for a while and can buy fun scrappy stuff soon as well
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Post by scrapcat on Feb 15, 2023 16:23:29 GMT
Having just spent $80 on page protectors ... has anyone ever thought about ditching the albums and page protectors completely and just keeping the pages in a box? I have just started doing this, but not due to cost, moreso for space. I have used the WRMK cinnamon albums for years, but am running out of space and don't really need the album. End of last year I purchased a Pioneer box thru Amazon that I am now adding layouts to and will do that for the foreseeable future. |
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Post by joblackford on Feb 15, 2023 16:39:44 GMT
 I think plenty of scrappers keep their layouts in boxes or piles by default! I've seen some amazing piles of finished layouts in YT videos. Albums and plastic page protectors and space were a big part of what put me off paper scrapping. (I do photo books now) So expensive and ugh, plastic!
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Post by honeypea on Feb 15, 2023 16:47:41 GMT
I think plenty of scrappers keep their layouts in boxes or piles by default! I've seen some amazing piles of finished layouts in YT videos. Albums and plastic page protectors and space were a big part of what put me off paper scrapping. (I do photo books now) So expensive and ugh, plastic! OMG. Lisa, gluestickgirl, once did a tour of all the PILES of loose completed layouts she had all over her room and stuffed in a closet and it destroyed me. I actually went into a very minor scrapbooking depression over that reveal. I had just loved her style so much and really idolized her method, but that peak behind the curtain left me feeling like it was all a lie. 😅 |
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breetheflea
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Location: PNW
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 15, 2023 17:42:21 GMT
the cost of 12x12 albums/page protectors was the reason I started scrapping with 8.5x11 back in 2002 and I never switched. I can get page protectors at the office store in a box of 200 and I get my albums at 40% off at HL. They certainly aren't the most fun to spend scrappy money on but I much prefer flipping through an album to flipping through pages in a box so... Hopefully you'll be all set for a while and can buy fun scrappy stuff soon as well I've been considering switching sizes... yesterday I tweaked my back, and I'm pretty sure it was because I was lifting full 12 by 12 albums off my shelves trying to find empty page protectors... I just need to get over my rectangular-page-a-phobia... |
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Post by Citygirl on Feb 15, 2023 18:10:01 GMT
I don’t think I could give up albums because piles would make me crazy. My husband is a piler and it makes me crazy. However I’ve been thinking about ditching the page protectors. They are getting harder and harder to find.
I’ve been doing a craft room re-org and I have a huge stash of 12x12 pp and at least half of them have yellowed.
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Post by jenr on Feb 21, 2023 22:55:02 GMT
I've been thinking about this too, because I'm running out of places to keep albums, but I still enjoy scrapping so much and want to keep doing it! So I've been thinking, I may take pages out of my older albums (but keep them in the page protectors), and store them in Iris containers, as long as they are 'flat' pages with no poke-y embellishments that would ruin the page above it. Except I don't love the thought of keeping them in plastic protectors in a plastic container - I'm afraid they will get 'cloudy'. Or I was thinking of having my old layouts photographed and made into Shutterfly books, and then it wouldn't matter how the old layouts were stored. Neither option is ideal, and the second one would cost a lot since I have over 60 albums. I don't know. I need someone to invent something that takes up less space. But not digital b/c I love buying paper and embellishments  |
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I think plenty of scrappers keep their layouts in boxes or piles by default! I've seen some amazing piles of finished layouts in YT videos.
