Does anyone honestly use their monthly kits?

In the summer, yes, because I'm a teacher ...or at least I use enough of it that with what I have left, I feel good about taking the rest of the kit apart and putting it in my stash. During the rest of the year, I might do 2-3 LOs a month, so I go in cycles where I subscribe and let them pile up, then bust through a bunch of kits, then resubscribe, etc. I do like how having pre-coordinated supplies helps save me time when I am in the mood to scrap.

I think next time I subscribe to a kit, I'll choose one that a lot of the scrappers on YouTube use so I can just scraplift a lot of their designs. There are days when I'm feeling uber creative and want to come up with my own design, and then there are days when I just have a story I want to tell and the design is more secondary.

I do Project Life and make cards. I used to get the Freckled Fawn kit from the first one until this fall. I finally had to cancel because i'm drowning in embellishments. I do buy the SSS card kits and KP kits as one offs. I won't subscribe because i don't need that much stuff.

I do if it's one off kits, but due to time limitations, it usually takes me a while to use my monthly kits.

I only get one monthly kit, The Stamps of Life card kit. I really like it, but need to cancel because I'm not using them right now. I have used my MFT snowflake kit a few times already.

Now that SC kits are so small, killing them should be easier.

I find that Story Kits aren't really designed to be used up in one month. I like the idea of using them to fill in gaps in my regular albums or handbooks. Even the months where I used up all my SC or KP cards, I found I always had embellishments leftover. I tend to be more minimalist (and flat) so the bulkier embellies wind up migrating into my stash.

I've switched to KP's kits which are lighter on the embellishments (which I love) and I'm finding that the full sized stamps are a much better substitute for my scrapping style. I think it's easier to use up a monthly kit if it's just your style. But to be honest, with a stash on hand, I rarely force myself to scrap just what's in my monthly box. Then again, that could be because my monthly box often includes extras.

That's so true. I remember when I first started subbing and I'd use almost every card (plus some add-on cards) each month. Yes, I was doing 12x12 but the cards worked so well together it was easy to use up 90% before the next month's arrived.

I am doing the same....thinking bimonthly will work well!

I have received 4 Felicity Jane kits. I used up the first one really fast. Right now, not so much. I am sure in January I'll get back to it.

The kits are not huge, which I like.

I've subscribed to SC's PL kit from the beginning, but haven't used the majority of my kit supplies. Contrary to the basic idea of a "kit" I've always just put the items into my stash and used them with the rest of my supplies. Since my PL spread have lots of photos, I don't need many filler cards. And although I love some of the bulkier embellishments I just find them too hard to use in PL and have switched to using stamps to embellish my spreads. My goal for the new year is to pare down my stash to make creating easier and less time consuming.

I haven't used one that I've gotten. All subscriptions have been cancelled!

Kind of. When I had a SB sub, I made a point to use the kit at least once...but when I got pregnant (no desire to scrap...just thinking about it gave me morning sickness...no joke, although it is kind of amusing to think about, lol) I cancelled...there's only one kit of the 13 that I bought that I'd consider killed and that is the Fall themed one. $40 a month to use something once (minimum) was questionable but to let them pile up was a no go. The only sub I kept was my PL kit and even then, I had about 7 or 8 piled up, unopened, before I went through them and put them all away...when I get to those kits when I'm looking for specific colors, I am still 'ooh, pretty, I don't remember that kit' because I was so zoned out during that time. It wasn't over the top expensive at $25.95 a month. I'm now running out of room because I tend to do one project at a time. Right now, that's my November project, so PL is on the back burner. And I've been so in love with my Elle's studio kits (that I definitely use the most of anything in my stash right now) that I haven't been using my Gossamer Blue PL kits...although they are definitely appealing to me. Whenever I go through them after maxing out on space for them to pull cards I won't use to give away (usually pink ones), I want to use them, it's just that I'm always working on something else at the time. My brain doesn't work with multiple projects going on at once.

I have this idea that one day I'm going to wake up and become this crazy prolific scrapbooker and scrapbook every spare moment, but I get sucked into time wasters like the internet or my phone. I tend to find myself wanting to scrap or do other things when my plate is full (which it rarely is) and I'll sneak away 5 minutes here and there just to have some time to myself, but when I have all the time in the world, I don't feel a sense of urgency to scrapbook. No clue if that makes sense, but that's the sense I make of it.

Glad I'm not the only one. I subbed in June to a club, and I've only touched one kit. I love them, I do! I will use them, I just had kits already made and then not enough time.

I have used kits but I tend to not use them the month I get them. I tend to keep them in kits and use many of the products and then split the products into my stash. At the moment I am not subscribed to any kits and am just using all of the accumulated supplies that I received over 1.5 years of subbing to 2 different PL and SB kits.

I haven't subscribed to a kit in probably 10-12 years...I used to sub to Club Scrap back then and I still have bits and pieces from those kits in my stash...every now and then I actually use something

Between four small layouts last night and eight today, I finished up the kit. Loved the kits. Loved the layouts. I opened up an extra diecut pack, sticker pack and the hearts from Illustrated Faith, but I made 26 total layouts instead of the 12 I originally planned.

I really loved using this beautiful Clique Kit, but I still will never be a monthly kit buyer. I have more time to scrapbook than most, so I think I would kill them every month, but only if I liked them as much as this one. Too much risk involved for the money...for me. I'm usually willing to take the risk for a warehouse box, sight unseen, but I get a lot of bang for my buck. I respect that everyone has different needs and wants and totally understand why there is such a market for kits.

I forgot to mention that of the original kit, I have small strips and some cut aparts of paper left, most of the 12x12 alpha, a few frames, diecuts and stickers and anything that was silver foiled.