anyone else NOT a purger of supplies

Just about the only things I've ever purged are things I bought very early on -- circa the year 2000.  I'm constantly shocked when someone refers to something that's a year old as "old."  If I've used all of what I consider the useful parts of a collection, I will throw the leftovers away.

i probably should clear out a few things.  There are a couple of things I bought online that I didn't like in real life.  My room feels just a little crowded to me right now but my solution to that is to scrap more and buy less.  I still like just about everything I've bought.

i always start with the photo and try to pick paper that has the same mood and complements the colors.  When I've started with paper, I'm rarely happy with the outcome. I could never be a kit scrapper, though I love what other people do with their kits.

Everything I have is organized and I can find my stuff.  I like being surrounded by my scrapbooking stuff.  My grandkids refer to my scrapbook room as "your fun room."

i I can understand how some people can feel overwhelmed by too much stuff.

Yeah, that would be me.  I added it to my list of confessions on the other thread.  Not one of my stong suits.


LovMelrose, I have one of those, too!  A friend of mine was generous enough to give me her stuff when she was quitting scrapping (blasphemous, I know) and along w/her great rolling tote came some not-so-great paper.  The Paper Pizazz pad that I have is the one where the pages are all adorned w/items (fish, pumpkins, etc.) made from flowers.  I cannot begin to explain the hideousness of these papers!!!  I keep it because on the front cover are sample pages and one is of a bride laying across the hood of an antique car a la Tawny Kitaen.  It has become a running joke to bring 'Tawny' on our weekend crops, so I keep it around.  Will never, under any circumstances, use ANY of those papers!

I don't purge as much as share with my two nieces.......if it's something I have used most of or think I won't use I put it in the niece pile. Then when they come we "shop" my stuff together and first I give them the stack of stuff and then let them pick out and take whatever catches their eye from my stash....love sharing and it keeps my stash under control. It's nice for them as they can play without a huge expense.......win win!!!!!

I used to purge because our LSS had garage sales and I would always buy a table. I mostly sold items that were from grab bag/mystery boxes. Since the store has closed, I no longer have an easy way to sell items. I never had a ton of stuff to sell compared to other scrap sellers. My friend and did two garage sales on our own (out of her garage) and the first one was a hit, the second one was a bust.

I love my stuff and even though I have a lot of it, I remember what I have. I love new product but I also mix it in with really old product.

I don't purge too much. The only real supply I've purged a lot of over the years is patterned papers. If it's just no longer liked, or themes I won't use again (baby, kids, vacation, etc). My mom used to buy me papers, and she would get me like 4 sheets of each pattern... And a lot of it. Those eventually got purged. Another time was a club I belonged to that also sent 3-4 sheets of each. After using those papers for what seemed like years, I got tired of that style. Those I have to my MIL, so they went to a good cause.

The rest of my supplier have pretty much been manageable. I use them... Then buy more, and try not to over buy. Sure, I have a ton of things, but I feel it's a manageable amount, for lots of great work to do. It feels like a studio amount, where I can come up with great projects with what I have. It all fits in my storage, and I don't have much overflow

I don't purge. I set aside some things for school projects sometimes, but I keep all my stuff.

I am a chronic re-organizer, though, if that counts.

I no longer part with my supplies.  I might need them.

Paper is about the only thing I ever get rid of and I usually just use it a scratch paper instead of outright tossing it. I've taken to throwing all the "I might use this one day" embellishments into a little container on my desk and I rifle through that first when I'm looking for a little something to add to the lo I'm working on. I've managed to use up lots of bits that would probably still be sitting in my stash if I hadn't done this.

I have gone through and got rid of quite a bit before we moved, but most of what I got rid of was stuff that I got at trade shows as samples or in classes when I had my storefront years ago. However, I have hung onto an embarrassingly large hoard stash of things that I still like most of. It doesn't matter to me if I bought it ten days ago or ten years ago, if I thought it was cute and had an idea in mind when I bought it, I'd still use it.

LOL, a good chunk of the photos I want to scrap match the timeframe when that stuff was bought, so can we just pretend that when I scrap my old photos with my old stuff that I did those pages when I should have done them a decade ago?   Nobody will be the wiser if I never tell!

Now that my studio space is finally coming together, it will be really, really interesting to see what's actually IN all those boxes of stuff I packed away over three years ago. I have wood mounted stamps that haven't seen the light of day in seriously 15 years, and some of them really do just need to go.

I use the white back sides of single-sided old papers for printing free printables (like labels or tags), or for punching shapes that I can mist or ink, or for covering my work surface when I'm getting messy with inks and paints. It makes me feel like I didn't completely waste my money on paper that I'll probably never use on a layout. Just some ideas.

I don't purge. I have parted with a few things at the LSS garage sale, but they were primarily supplies I had been given that I didn't like, and maybe a few older kits from a club I was a member of 10 years ago. I never know what I'm going to use.

Count me in as a never purger! I started scrapping in 1996 and I have never purged. I have slowed down my buying, though. I have always liked to make embellishments using my supplies so I don't have tons of packs of embellishments. I also do art journaling and have always shared my supplies with my 3 dd's (now in their 20's). I love all the markers, colored pencils, stamps, inks, paints, sprays, dies, embossing folders and of course paper, paper and more paper. I don't have a problem with space, but it's time for another re-organization. It's also amazing how some of that older patterned paper can be rejuvenated with ink, paint, sprays, stencils etc.

I could have written this.  I am exactly the same way.

We have had all our scrapbook stores close, despite being in a very large metro area, and we have only one stamp store and one paper arts store left.  I rarely find anything good at the big box stores.  There is no way I am purging, since I may end up with no chance to fill in gaps in my stash later.