First World Scrapbooking Vent - do you have one?

My vent is that I have completely lost interest I used to love scrapbooking, but all I do nowadays is making cards, and it feels like a chore. And there is hardly any scrapbookers left, so selling my (shamefully extensive ) "collection" isn't an option.....so I continue to make cards all the while not loving it.

ITA!

I think a lot of us feel this way.  I try and print photos in order...which means I often have no current photos that excite me.  I finally decided to just throw in the towel and go for recent pictures that I have stories to tell that haven't been forgotten or that I need to dig out my planner (used more like a journal) or Facebook to find.  I am trying to spend a few hours every couple of weeks catching up on an old month and getting current since the last time I ordered photos.  I need to print out Disney (but everything else from that month is done), November, December (unless I have enough left over from my DD to do a brief highlight in my 2015 PL) and January to March of this year.  I am currently waiting on April (just ordered it Friday) and already set up (for me, this involves dating the backs of every picture, consolidating my cell phone and dslr pictures into one pile in date order and then assembling the bones of my PL...photos into pockets and adding an index card with the week number and dates) the photos that I ordered from May and June. 

The hard part for me is that I don't stay current with it so when I do sit and do a bunch at a time, I usually end up spending 16+ hours (longer if I'm really picky and spend a lot of time editing photos) over the course of a week to catch up on several months of photos at a time and then I'm overwhelmed when I have 500+ pictures to do something with, but I could easily order current pictures if I did it every couple of weeks instead of waiting until it's a huge project that I have to add to my list of things to catch up on.  That is my ultimate plan, but finding the motivation to play catch up, knowing the time investment I have to make (it's so booooorrrrrrinnnnggggg) kills the motivation in itself so I try not to sit and do more than an hour's worth of sorting at a time.  Sometimes I find myself motivated by my kids.  If I'm looking through pictures while they're around, they love to point out everyone they recognize and to tell me what we were up to if they can tell where we were in the picture...they also love to look at my work in progress pages on my desk and do the same.  Those things motivate me to keep going when I'm tired of editing AND when I feel like I'm losing my mojo because I'll never get comfortably caught up.  They don't care if I'm caught up, they just love having pictures to look at about our lives.

Thanks! I don't know what took me so long to post here! SaveSave

That's mine too!

Yeah, and you get all of those 2000 pics you took on vacation edited and start uploading them to one of the online printers and they have changed their programs and you can't even figure out how to order them! I spent practically the whole day yesterday doing that.

I love memorabilia too and run into issues all. the. time. Lately I've done accompanying mini albums (like the Simple Stories binders) to just include memorabilia and a few photos. I usually do digital albums for trips.  I also like using the travelers notebook style & have tried to work some "memorabilia layouts" into my bullet journals. 

I also use the Project Life envelopes in my regular albums to keep memorabilia for that year. If I use it in a layout then I know where it is, or if I don't get around to including it, then I just figure having it in the envelope is good enough. 

Years ago I printed out a bunch of photos to scrap. I put my hobby on the back burner for awhile. I used to have the mindset that I needed to scrap every picture and every event. I now realize that that's not going to happen. It just seems so tedious and overwelmning. I've decided that I only want to concentrate on holidays, sports, school and some events. Now I have all these pictures that I'm feeling guilty about. What to do what to do?

I too have ziplock baggies full of memorabilia that I often forget to use. I have tons of embellishments that I just can't seem to figure out how to make them work on a layout. Ugh! I'm realizing I'm a simple scrapper.

Let's not forget all the negatives that need to be converted to digital.

In our new house I have a scrap room - 15x19ft but we didn't put any shelves or cabinets in and everything got tossed in with the move almost 3 years ago

I want to scrapbook but sorting everything out will take longer than I have. So I finally have my dream space and never use it.

Oh and I have 2300 photos on my phone I need to download and print at least a few of

That's awesome that you get to make your room a priority. For my sanity, I'd need to do the same thing if we ever moved...although I dread the thought.  I didn't have this hobby until after we bought this house and have so much stuff already...I'd be so nervous that something would get damaged in a move or that it wouldn't be able to be a priority when we moved in to a new place.

Do you ever have professional photographers show up to take pictures of the events?  I got some really good ones for sports and graduation that way.  Too expensive, but worth getting a good one now and then.