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Post by kmage on Mar 3, 2024 20:21:40 GMT
Have you ever done any math on your patterned paper? I am watching this youtube video from Created by Gwen about decluttering a scraproom www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzM-pF5-jsQ&t=0s and she said to figure out what your actual usage was. She said that if you average one layout a week, with 3 sheets of patterned paper used on each LO, that was 156 sheets a year. That sounded reasonable to me, that is my average, with some weeks being 0 and some being more than that. I looked at my paper pads and most of mine have 36 sheets in a stack. 4 stacks fit in a Iris case, so I know I can get 144 sheets in an Iris case. I have 30 Iris cases full of patterned paper. 144x30=4320 sheets of patterned paper in cases. I have 17 stacks. 17x36 sheets in a stack=612. That is roughly 4932 sheets of patterened paper. 4932/156= 31.6 YEARS of paper. Years. Holy sh*t. I need to step up my scrapping/weed out paper I don't care for or both. Bear in mind, this isn't 6x6 paper, or cardstock. I dare you to do the math, lol!  |
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 3, 2024 22:02:01 GMT
No! Why on earth would you do this, LOL?
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Post by jediannie on Mar 3, 2024 22:05:31 GMT
I dare you to do the math, lol!  No! Why on earth would you do this, LOL? I am in this camp. I don't want to know how long it would take me to use up my paper.  |
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Post by breetheflea on Mar 3, 2024 22:12:11 GMT
I don't want to know. I've gifted at least 3 inches of loose paper and 11 barely used paper pads on my local Buy Nothing group in the past year or so...
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Post by kmage on Mar 3, 2024 22:16:31 GMT
No! Why on earth would you do this, LOL? LOL, right?? Well, if I am honest it is because I moved spaces (going on 2 years now) and my new space was much much smaller, although still a room. And no matter how I have tried to organize it, it still feels cluttery and not creative to me. So I was looking beyond organizing videos and into decluttering ones, and found this one and thought, oh that's interesting! I never thought of it in terms like that. After scrapbooking for almost 30 years, I have accumulated a lot of paper but I also felt like I was scrapbooking a lot too. I mean, I have a ton of completed albums. So I did the cold, hard calculation. It was mind blowing. Now, I can also say that 2 full Iris cases are for water scrapping, (beach, lake, etc) but that would be 288 pieces of paper, so I would need to do 81 layouts to use that up. Since I live in land of 10,000 lakes and also mostly vacation where there is water, that seems somewhat reasonable. However, my full bin of Halloween paper plus the two stacks that do not fit in it (216 pieces of paper or 72 layouts) does not seem reasonable. Halloween comes once a year and my children are adults. Last year there were no Halloween layouts at all. Year before? 1 layout. Sooooo...I can ascertain that my Halloween paper stash is WAY out of whack with my scrapbooking lol. |
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Post by christinec68 on Mar 3, 2024 22:28:01 GMT
I did the math once - at the time I had enough paper to last 50 years or some such nonsense. I purged and purged and mostly keep it under control. It gets a little out of hand once in a while but I reel it back in.
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 3, 2024 23:34:26 GMT
Nope. Cannot do it.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Mar 3, 2024 23:48:44 GMT
As long as there is room to store all the paper(current stock and future purchases), that is all that matters. I don't need to know the statistics of my paper usage in regards to my paper purchases.......because it's nobody else's business how much paper I have and the rate at which I do or do not use it.   |
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Post by fawkes76 on Mar 4, 2024 0:29:37 GMT
No! Why on earth would you do this, LOL? LOL, right?? Well, if I am honest it is because I moved spaces (going on 2 years now) and my new space was much much smaller, although still a room. And no matter how I have tried to organize it, it still feels cluttery and not creative to me. So I was looking beyond organizing videos and into decluttering ones, and found this one and thought, oh that's interesting! I never thought of it in terms like that. After scrapbooking for almost 30 years, I have accumulated a lot of paper but I also felt like I was scrapbooking a lot too. I mean, I have a ton of completed albums. So I did the cold, hard calculation. It was mind blowing. Now, I can also say that 2 full Iris cases are for water scrapping, (beach, lake, etc) but that would be 288 pieces of paper, so I would need to do 81 layouts to use that up. Since I live in land of 10,000 lakes and also mostly vacation where there is water, that seems somewhat reasonable. However, my full bin of Halloween paper plus the two stacks that do not fit in it (216 pieces of paper or 72 layouts) does not seem reasonable. Halloween comes once a year and my children are adults. Last year there were no Halloween layouts at all. Year before? 1 layout. Sooooo...I can ascertain that my Halloween paper stash is WAY out of whack with my scrapbooking lol. That's a good reason to do the math. I've done something similar with my thematic collections (without doing the actual math) and realized that I could purge a lot of supplies since even if life changes some, I'll never need *that* many supplies for those specific topics. |
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Post by artisticscrapper on Mar 4, 2024 3:04:44 GMT
I can’t even imagine actually running out of paper. So even if I did the math (not going to) I’d still want some extra paper as a buffer.
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Post by volunteergirl on Mar 4, 2024 3:13:20 GMT
I did thin down my themed paper, Halloween, Christmas, school, etc. because I don’t make very many of those layouts anymore. My kid is grown and so I don’t need a lot of the baby/child/teen stuff. I kept my favorites and sold the rest.
It freed up a good amount of space and I don’t miss any of it.
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Post by Linda on Mar 4, 2024 3:50:42 GMT
I did quite enough stash math in the other thread (about how long it would take to make a dent)...and it has put a serious slowdown on my crafty spending. I went to M's today and bought ONE piece of paper.
I don't know that I want to figure out how long my paper/cardstock stash would take to use up EVEN at my rate of page production.
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Post by PaperAngel on Mar 4, 2024 4:30:53 GMT
Well, no one can accuse you of not having long-term goals!  Since it's a creative hobby, I prefer a philosophical approach: There is no such thing as too much paper! |
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Post by kmage on Mar 4, 2024 5:08:32 GMT
I did quite enough stash math in the other thread (about how long it would take to make a dent)...and it has put a serious slowdown on my crafty spending. I went to M's today and bought ONE piece of paper. I don't know that I want to figure out how long my paper/cardstock stash would take to use up EVEN at my rate of page production. I love that term! "Stash math"...that is great. I am not decluttering, I am doing stash math.  |
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Post by scraplette on Mar 4, 2024 14:29:41 GMT
kmage, year summary and paper math? NO Seriously, we all need to stop this trend before someone notices.😀
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Post by scrapnnana on Mar 4, 2024 15:06:06 GMT
I refuse to do the math, but I won’t deny that I need to do a lot more scrapbooking!
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Post by hoopsfn on Mar 4, 2024 15:40:35 GMT
Oh kmage, why are torturing yourself?  Maybe you should make a l/o about this. Thanks for the laugh. |
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Post by mandolyn9909 on Mar 4, 2024 16:05:02 GMT
Without doing the math I bet I am somewhere between 106 - 244 Years. LOL I have way too much paper. I likely have 3 years worth of basic grey papers along
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Post by alleyscrap on Mar 4, 2024 16:09:42 GMT
I love the idea of “stash math” but I would be scared to calculate it for my own stash. I don’t have TONS of 12x12 paper but I mostly do Project Life so I could potentially turn one sheet of paper into 12 cards and use maybe 3-4 cards per spread max… I don’t want to know how long it would take me to use it by those standards. Plus, I gravitate towards project life cards anyway so I barely use my 12x12 papers in PL.
The biggest way I use up 12x12 is making mini albums and the occasional 9x12 spread. But I only do each a few times a year at most. Plus I use a lot of white cardstock backgrounds and minimal pp.
Ok, time to stop thinking about that! 😅
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Post by miascraps on Mar 4, 2024 19:22:51 GMT
No, not going to go there. I can not squeeze anymore paper into the paper storage area. I would have to spill over into another space. Not going to happen. I’m on a freeze!
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Post by kmage on Mar 4, 2024 19:36:03 GMT
Have you ever done any math on your patterned paper? I am watching this youtube video from Created by Gwen about decluttering a scraproom www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzM-pF5-jsQ&t=0s and she said to figure out what your actual usage was. She said that if you average one layout a week, with 3 sheets of patterned paper used on each LO, that was 156 sheets a year. That sounded reasonable to me, that is my average, with some weeks being 0 and some being more than that. I looked at my paper pads and most of mine have 36 sheets in a stack. 4 stacks fit in a Iris case, so I know I can get 144 sheets in an Iris case. I have 30 Iris cases full of patterned paper. 144x30=4320 sheets of patterned paper in cases. I have 17 stacks. 17x36 sheets in a stack=612. That is roughly 4932 sheets of patterened paper. 4932/156= 31.6 YEARS of paper. Years. Holy sh*t. I need to step up my scrapping/weed out paper I don't care for or both. Bear in mind, this isn't 6x6 paper, or cardstock. I dare you to do the math, lol! Welp, we can add another year on here for the Pinkfresh order that is coming to my house. I've heard too many companies "taking a pause" to believe that they will be back and I love them. Hence the grab box that I was not going to order but now have ordered! |
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Post by papersilly on Mar 4, 2024 23:38:50 GMT
i mathed it out with my eyes. so much stash, so little time. i would be thrilled to only have 31 years of paper! my paper stands taller than me.
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Post by judyc on Mar 4, 2024 23:41:34 GMT
That math is all fine and good if those papers actually work with your photos..... but I could have 1,000 sheets of cardstock, let's say orange for example, and none of those would work for the Christmas layout I need to create. So yes, 160 papers is perfect for a years worth of scrapbooking at one layout per week/3 papers per layout if those 160 papers just happen to work with your photos or you just buy them 3 at a time for the layout you're currently creating. But that's not realistic.
Here's my math.... I have mapped out about 1200 layouts I would like to make. I cut into about 5 pieces of patterned paper or cardstock for every layout (I don't use 5 whole sheets, but use at least part of 5 different ones). 5 x 1200 = 6000. I have about twice that much paper, so I'm covered, right? Maybe.....as someone else pointed out, I may have a deficit of beachy papers, but an excess of Fall colored papers.
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Post by lg on Mar 5, 2024 7:47:23 GMT
Oh the quest for the perfect blue cardstock… my stash is overflowing but I still never seem to have just the right shade 😂
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Post by hoopsfn on Mar 5, 2024 15:44:53 GMT
Oh the quest for the perfect blue cardstock… my stash is overflowing but I still never seem to have just the right shade 😂  |
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Post by scraplette on Mar 5, 2024 15:50:35 GMT
Loving this tgread, there’s a reason 2Peas lasted this long ❤️
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Post by judyc on Mar 5, 2024 21:08:08 GMT
Oh the quest for the perfect blue cardstock… my stash is overflowing but I still never seem to have just the right shade 😂 Right there with you. I'm quite certain I have purchased at some point every brand and shade of blue ever manufactured and that's what it takes to scrap with blue - a lot of blues. |
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Post by FurryP on Mar 5, 2024 21:34:23 GMT
But…but…but it’s pretty, pretty paper. Why you so mean? 😂😂😂
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Post by infochick on Mar 6, 2024 16:18:43 GMT
Oh kmage ! You really made me think. This thread came along at the same time that I saw a Facebook Marketplace post with someone selling 1,000 sheets of scrapbook paper. There was a photo. I could tell it was "good" paper (not thin, but rather name brand designer paper) and the stack was not all that tall. It really gave me pause when I thought about my stacks of paper. How many thousands of sheets do I have? How fast am I using the paper? Not as fast as I can buy it--so far this year I have bought 82 sheets and used 30. Yet with the news of CTMH, and now PinkFresh, I was seriously considering buying it. Thinking about the golden age of scrapbooking being over and the love I have for the papers in my stash the urge to buy it was very strong. I honestly think I would have caved and bought it had it not sold so quickly. |
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Post by kmage on Mar 6, 2024 16:49:47 GMT
Yet with the news of CTMH, and now PinkFresh, I was seriously considering buying it. Thinking about the golden age of scrapbooking being over and the love I have for the papers in my stash the urge to buy it was very strong. I honestly think I would have caved and bought it had it not sold so quickly. I hear you! I bought the Pinkfresh grab box. I had decided not to go to the October Afternoon last warehouse sale (20 min from my house!!!) and deeply regretted it. But I do think this is good math, just to be aware of. It's leading me more in the direction (which I was already headed anyway) of having less theme-y papers and more useable supplies. |
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Maybe you should make a l/o about this. Thanks for the laugh. 
