Poll: S/O: Do you have "Full Set Syndrome" (FSS)?

no - my scrapbook budget has never lent itself to full sets of anything which I think has been beneficial to me in the longterm but has sometimes leads to a wee bit of envy in the short term looking at other people's craft spaces with their full sets of what sometimes seems like everything.

When I start into a new medium, I will start with one or two colours. Then if I like it I have to fight myself not to collect them all. I have to remind myself that my pretty dylusions paints dried out before I could possibly use them all after I attended a class by Dyann.

I love those but yeah, not headed down that slippery slope

I said no, never, but it COULD happen. For me, I like something if I think I will use it. I don't have all of the distress oxides because some of the pinks and more pastel colors wouldn't be used. I do have one lighter pink and definitely the bold pink. I won't get the new color because I feel like I have others that are close enough. I would buy greens or blues that are close in color because I will use those colors.

I don't buy full sets of most papers or ephemera.

I am trying to think of something that I have a full set of. I know I have full sets of paper, but that might be about it.

Things that come in a rainbow of colors always make me want them all.

I usually just buy what I like individually. 

I have on occasion bought a paper pad. I only purchased the pad, because the paper wasn't being sold individually.

I’ve bought big chunks of collections but I’ve never had FSS.

Usually for paper and embellishments. Never for inks.

No, I never have. I buy what I like from a collection. I never buy every single item as there are usually 2-5 things I do not want.

I do buy pads along with single sheets when I really like a collection but never buy all the embellishments.

For inks, I use SSS Pawsetively stamps and do not want or have the need for all the colors.

I want to get my money's worth from a product. I don't want to have to store items I will hardly use or never use just to have a complete set.

I know what I use and like and how much space I have in my nook. My space is limiting so I have to be mindful of what comes into my space.

I voted "never" but when I first started scrapbooking 20+ years ago (and pre-retirement) I was sucked into buying full sets of some items.
Lots of the Making Memories embellishments that came in dif. color sets (eyelets, brads) and of course those paints! So pretty all lined up.
In their soon-to-be-dried-out bottles.

I chose sometimes, but I really believe it's because the size of the collection is small and/or the colors are all appealing to me. If those things had additional items of colors I don't enjoy creating with, I know I wouldn't have purchased just for the sake of being complete.

So examples would be the Pinkfresh glitter drops or the SB.com Pops of Color glitter drops. I love and have them all. There are certain color tones if existed within these product lines I would not buy. But so far they don't exist so I have a full sets.

I have most of the full size TH oxide inks, but it will never be a full set as I don't enjoy creating with browns/oranges.

I said sometimes. I very much have this impulse and did it with some paints, which have since dried up. Now I try very hard not to do this with mixed media. I have "most" of the distress inks in their original formula. I started to go down the road with oxides but have since stopped myself. Now I only buy an ink if I need it for a specific project. To be honest, the only thing that probably stops me from completing my distress set is that I have been too lazy to do a full inventory of what is missing. I recently organized them and can usually find something that will work so that is good enough for me.

With scrapbook collections, I often have full set syndrome and buy everything. Part of this is that I like my embellishments, and often my LSS only sells collection packs. I would really like to be more selective with my paper purchases.

My other recent addiction is the Doodlebug Petite Prints papers. Over the last few months, I have really stocked up. I can't say that I have everything, but I have a good selection in most colours. I feel like I can stop...for now.

I chose sometimes - only because when I first saw the Elizabeth Craft Designs planner die sets, I wanted them all! That was "the way" I was going to document things, not 12x12 or anything else.

Well. After sinking hundreds of dollars on the die sets, guess what?  It's not really how I like to document things. For some reason, I can't decide which papers to use for the planner pages, they're limited in size, I can't make them look like the "pros" do, and it was downhill from then on. I have them, but rarely use them. Maybe when I retire I'll have time to search for ideas on how to use them and go from there.

As far as inks - I have Distress Oxides and Taylored Expressions dye inks, but not a full set of either. Plus a few random cubes that I've gotten in kits from Concord & 9th, Hero Arts, etc. Between all of those, I can pretty much find the color/shade I need.

FSS first hit me hard with Altenew Artists markers. As sets of 12 went on sale for 45% off, I slowly collected all nine...then they came out with two more! I used every fiber of my being to resist buying them at full price and eventually got them on sale, too. If there are colors I never use, I haven't noticed yet -- I color a variety of things.

Then somehow I ended up with all four sets of their water-based dual tip pens, too. Because there are only 48 of those and they're water-based, they are much better for bringing on the road to events or on vacation. But I am adamantly ignoring their new acrylic markets. Don't even know what those are.

I had also been steadfastly resisting any kind of ink pad FSS, but I am caving rapidly to a full-fledged Tsukineko addiction. I used Sapphire Delicata on my 2022 Christmas cards for sentiments and added Ruby, Emerald and Gold for 2023 and used them for adding sparkly details to stenciling as well as for stamping sentiments. Then added the silver to put me over the free shipping threshold on an order somewhere. I'm up to 6 VersaFine Clairs for stamping non-sparkly sentiments. And when my order arrives from Imagine, I will have a little over half the Memento Dew Drops.

The one thing I can't yet determine is whether the fact that there are only 36 shades of Memento is a good thing, a bad thing, or both. Probably both.