Stories about how you know you have too much

When I look at kit sales at various websites and realize I already own everything in the kit...

I waffle on things at Tuesday Morning if I can't find two of it. Oftentimes I will hit several stores (4 stores are about 40 miles or less for me) and forget what or how many I have found. I would rather buy too many than not enough.

when I have boxes of new stuff just sitting around. I look at it when my pkg comes and then it sits there in the box, quite frequently for months.

having too much doesn't stop me from buying more though!

When I moved my scraproom. I went through my stuff to put it away in my new space and found a lot of things I had totally forgotten about. I can't keep all my supplies and projects in my head. But that's OK, I like all kinds of different sources of inspiration and it all has a place for now.

I've done that more times than I care to admit. 

I have to say "when it takes longer to find the thing I know I have than it would be to go all the way to the store to buy a new one." Which is something else I know I've done more than once.

Once I was thinking about making a cowgirl page with pics of DD and I *KNEW* I had bandana paper in red, blue and pink somewhere. I passed up buying more a few times because I knew I already had it. When it came time to make the page, I couldn't find that paper ANYWHERE. I spent over three hours looking for it in all the most logical places before I finally gave up. I'd spent so much time looking that I didn't have any time left that day to actually scrap, and I totally lost any mojo I might have had in the process. I finally found the paper months later in a bin of random stuff I bought on a road trip but never got around to putting away, so I immediately put it together with the photos and it was the first thing I knocked out the next time I sat down to work on something!

My "too much" moment came a few years ago when my paper was taller than I am. It isn't that way anymore but I'll probably never need to purchase another piece of patterned paper for another 347 years (at least).

In the Studio Calico dupes thread, I asked where I could find the gold chipboard stars from a kit. Yesterday while packing up my scrap room to move, I found that I already had them! I bought them from a SC sale months ago!

When it kills me.

I was just in my "scrap room" with the nice shelving and desk, with the additional table, with the wire cube shelving, with the stacks of scrap crap ALL over the floor -- mincing into the room, with teeny steps, carefully putting my feet to avoid the stacks of scrap crap, while loaded with another stack of scrap crap being moved from the "guest room" into the "scrap room", getting ready to go to Ikea to get a Rakog cart to hold the scrap crap that is ALL over my "office room" floor.

As I had successfully found a place to stack the scrap crap on top of the other scrap crap, I turned to leave the room on the same littered slim path I'd entered ... and you know how a bag will reach out and grab a toe? Well a bag of scrap crap (it was actually a couple of slippery Michaels bags, you know how they layer the bags together to hold scrap crap with pointy corners) those slippery bags grabbed 3 toes and I tripped, staggered, and very nearly went down.

Where I could have fallen is totally unknown ... but it would have been on to a stack of scrap crap and undoubtedly really hurt and potentially, likely REALLY damaged me -- because there wasn't any room for my head to go down without hitting something fairly solid.

So -- I have enough scrap crap when it kills me -- or nearly kills me!

Omg this is so me, down to the "office room". That's what I call my craft room and I about break my neck getting to my desk.

WHEN YOUR BOXES OF SCRAPBOOK GOODIES TOPPLE OVER BECAUSE THEY ARE STACKED TOO HIGH.

I figure people here may understand and hopefully won't judge me. The last 2 months I went on an online scrapbook supply buying spree, between online sales and being able to use my birthday and anniversary in June as an excuse to buy the boxes are piling up. I usually only make a purchase maybe once a month and am good about opening up my goodies right away and putting them away, but with the kids home and a busy summer I just stacked up the boxes in the corner of my office. Well the other day I went to open the door to my office and I had to force it open because the boxes had fell down and were blocking the door, thank goodness none of my family was around when that happened or I would never hear the end of that one. HAHAHA

A few years ago, someone posted a link on 2peas from some scrapbook organization blog that helped you estimate how many projects you can make from your stash based on estimated quantity. According to the article I had enough paper to last 40 years at the rate I made layouts at that time. FORTY! That's insane and I immediately went about purging...I donated a lot to friends who work in or are active with schools, libraries and scouts. I also scrapbook a lot more and buy a lot less..

How about when you hear a loud crash several rooms away and discover that all of the magazines and idea books you kept for reference neatly arranged on a shelf (after giving or selling or recycling over a dozen grocery bags full of the rest of them) are all on the floor and the shelf they were on has completely collapsed?   They are currently all still in the bins I loaded them into after they decimated the shelf.

Apparently my tool drawer (the top one) is still booby trapped. I tried to find a paper piercer so my dad could fix the BBQ (he likes the sharp point on it). In doing so I managed to stab myself yet again with an X-acto knife. It wasn't as bad as the last time but apparently the drawer has just a little too much stuff in it for safe usage. Apparently.

There are scissors, ink pads and sharp knives in there. Why all this crap er stuff? I don't know how it all got in there either. The top drawer is used the most and it is the smallest. Why?