Thickers at Michael’s $$$

Yikes! Plus shipping? Nope.

Holy cow is right. I wonder if they are the same price in the store? I haven't been in a while.

That seems pretty pricey.

They’re a few $ cheaper on Amazon but not a lot of choices. Scrapbook.com has them for about half that price but then there’s shipping.

Wow...I guess I'm glad I have two SB.com organizers full of Thickers! I've been trying to use them up.

esp for stickers that usually need additional adhesive help.

I think they mark it up a lot so that they can discount it for 50% off or whatever. I noticed Michael’s website doing this for some select brands, as well as their regular store brand.

Oh, heck no! I'm glad I've been using my Cricut more.

That's nuts. I guess I should stop by TM and grab any I can find that I like for cheap before they close 😫 Big Lots used to have $2 thickers, but it's been awhile since I've seen those.

Unfortunately, scrapbookers have a reputation for being willing to pay ridiculous prices for things they want. Whether or not that reputation is based on reality is debatable. I’m not one of them. I bought my first electronic cutter years ago, and it was one of the smartest purchases I’ve ever made.

Thickers don’t even stick that well, as has already been acknowledged here. Yes, they have dimension. That’s why they are called Thickers, but a little foam tape under die-cut letters gives you dimension, too, and you can use whatever font you want. Of course, you won’t find a free font online that matches Thickers. That is intentional. They know a lot of scrapbookers have electronic cutters, but fonts can be expensive, and Thickers typically use a commercial font that isn’t cheap. I’ve looked up matches in the past. A pack of Thickers costs about $9 on Amazon. No way am I going to pay even that.

I suspect that either Michaels thinks they can get those prices, or another possibility is that they, like Tuesday Morning, might be about to go under. I rarely go to the craft store anymore, and I’ve always been one to prefer shopping at a brick and mortar store.

I hope I’m wrong, but we’ve seen so many businesses close.

That could be said of almost any group - wood workers, people who work on cars for a hobby, cooks, other crafters, artists.

Or people who collect things - funky pops, comics, figurines, pins, etc

I fork out $$$ for my Le Creuset. Yes there are cheaper options but the quality is why I pay the money. And ease of cleaning. Others may go hoky crap why spend that much. Because I want to.

It also comes down to convince. Why do people fork out $200+ for an air fryer, InstantPot, or small counter top convection oven? Easy meals.

Thickers are crafters convince item. Wide range if colors and sizes, match lines, easy to use, already prepped, east to store, take less foot space than larger machines.

My Michael's still carries them but I buy them online. I order the foam as they are very sticky over the chipboard.

This is really interesting to me. As a person with hoarder tendencies, this discussion reinforces my general ways. I do tend to give myself what I suppose are "containment rules," but the one area in my paper crafty pursuits where I do not apply the rules is ALPHABETS. Alphabets is a big category: Chipboard, stickers, wood veneer, fonts, stamps, dies...and definitely THICKERS. I have four drawers of Thickers. By drawers, I mean the top drawers of the Ikea Hemnes dresser. However, that dresser is across the room from my work area, so I find myself making a mess of it by not putting them back the way I should. I tend to mostly use white, neutral and black Thickers, so I moved those categories to a Clip It Up a friend sent me a few years ago. The Clip It Up is much closer to my main work area.

Anyway, over the years I've acquired so, so many Thickers. I do use them quite often. Titles are an important part of my scrapbook style, so much so that I sort of scratch my head and don't really understand the idea of not using titles on layouts--though there's nothing wrong with not using titles. It's just really ingrained in my style, I guess. There is a discount scrapbook store near Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and for a couple of years it had the most glorious wall of Thickers. Hundreds and hundreds of packs of Thickers, all different styles and colors. Maybe even a couple thousand. I would go every so often and load up. I think the owner came across some sort of wholesale opportunity for them and created a pretty large space to display and sell them for a long time--definitely a couple of years. I think they were around $1 to $2 each. Then there was the Tuesday Morning stash-building Thickers opportunity. I also availed myself of that, many times. Peachy Cheap Thickers grab bags? Sure!

I have some favorites that I have gone back and rebought several times. These tend to be white, sans serif, tall and skinny styles. I think I prefer the foam ones that have better stickability.

So now I have several hundred packs of Thickers. I do still buy them occasionally, though I cringe at the approximately $7 price tag they retail for nowadays. $12.99? They would have to be exceptional for me to bite off on that price tag.

Mostly I guess I'm feeling completely vindicated at my Thickers-hoardery ways from the before times, when $1 or $2 packs of Thickers were not that hard to find. The same holds true for other supplies--paper has gone up (everything has gone up), but since Thickers have been a particular acquisitive focus for me, I find my hoarded stash particularly satisfying. I guess looking at it on the positive side, the high cost of Thickers nowadays serves as a boundary for me to really carefully consider whether I will use a new pack and/or whether it fills a color gap (purple).