What prevents you from scrapping?

1) lack of time
2) lack of motivation

i need to get over both of these in order to start working on xmas projects.

Usually my own head.. I'll finish cleaning, I'll catch up on some shows, I'll clean the poop in the yard, Need to do errands... whatever comes to mind.  Now that we are slowing down at work (after being HUGELY busy).. I'll be back to doing most of the housework while I'm working from home days.  Then I'll be able to scrap more.  I've actually been pretty good lately.  Knock on wood.

I just wish I had my own space again.  It's all in my bedroom and I get irritated that 1/2 my room looks like a bomb hit it.. it's a huge bedroom, so there is room, it's just that it's the collect all space.  Nothing matches, nothing ever got painted when we moved in.  So while it is nice it is the catch all room.  

Having a child and a job 😂😂

Oh my gosh, let me first just say, I was not expecting to find the therapy session I needed in this thread. Ladies, you amaze me.














Can you change the lighting in the basement? Add a lot more of it?


And honestly, my first answer was: How about making the basement the Living Room, and move your scrappy stuff upstairs again?





Yes, this. Between grief and mental illness, someone always needs me. 



This. I have no privacy, no place to have a thought of my own. 


Trus.


I feel this. It's been several years since I actually completed a layout. I get so sad because I used to be good at it. Really good at it. Or at least, really content with my process and my finished outcome.


Me neither. I don't even have a bedroom. 

Having a space with a door that I can pull stuff out and leave untouched, away from nosey prying eyes, apparently is a necessity for me to be productive.



Me too.


Yes!!

And I don't remember even a single day in years that I have not been mentally drained. 


Yes! I have family members actively grieving that need my support daily. Family members with mental health diagnoses that are still on wait lists for therapy, etc. I am asked questions, asked to give reassurances, asked to listen every single day, several times a day, sometimes several times an hour, by several different people.  




Physical and mental and emotional. 



Yes!

So much this. 


Yes.


Yes. 


Yes.



Big (((hugs)))

You matter. And we care. Your friends on this board.


Your honesty with yourself and openness with us is incredible. You help give me the words that I haven't allowed my own mind to form about the way I feel. It is so hard to give all of yourself, constantly, everyday, putting out fires, solving all the problems, being the collateral damage in other people's lives, and then realize no one is asking, "But are you okay?"





This right here.

I feel this every day. Everyone else is put first. Everyone else is prioritized over me, and at the end of the day, I am just empty. I am a shell who is just moving forward, continuing on, because I know if I don't, there is no one else to take care of all of them. 

I am pretty good at starting and mostly finishing Dec Daily. And I am also good at starting other projects, but terrible at finishing them! So I would say distractions, feeling like other things are priorities, lack of discipline. I have several travel, WITL, PL and some DITL pages that are all WIP. Ugh. I really want to get things finished, but I struggle to have the motivation and make the time to get things over the finish line. Like DITL, WITL 2024 would not take a ton of hours to finish. And PL I am practically apathetic when I think about it, but I bought the SBTM kits so I have no excuses for not doing even just a basic PL for 2024. I also think I need to better organize some of my stuff and possibly make some deadlines?

I really need a better routine for cleaning, organizing and actually doing stuff! I loved Ali's STASH class and Linda's planning class but I need to actually take action and apply what I learned .