Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on Sept 5, 2014 17:41:32 GMT
I'm not sure how long that would take. Right now I'm scrapping pictures from 2012. If I had to take a guess I'd say 6 months if I scrapped regularly and really plugged away at it. I am one of those scrappers that likes to be caught up. Many moons ago I enjoyed scrapping more because I was caught up and could journal easier because the memories and facts were so fresh in my mind and heart. I never had the feeling that because I was caught up I didn't have pictures to scrap. I was constantly taking more pictures so there was always something new to scrap. I was also able to scrap more "moments" layouts rather than mostly events layouts. After so much time passes I have a hard time remembering what was special about those "moments" pictures.
Another bonus to being caught up was I shopped a lot less. I was fortunate enough to have several good LSS in my area at the time. I'd take my pictures to the LSS and buy what I needed. These days I tend to buy on a whim and a lot of what I buy doesn't get used.
Hmmm...maybe we need a group for those who want to get caught up.
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Sept 5, 2014 19:08:27 GMT
OK, that's just as scary as the original question  Now I'm sure I'll never come close to "catching up"  |
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Post by Spree13 on Sept 5, 2014 19:39:20 GMT
In the words or word from Squints from the movie, The Sand Lot..."Fffffoooorrrr-eeevvveerrrrr"
In reality it would take me a few weeks to do my dd's albums. My own childhood photos is a whole other story.
Roxanne
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tiffanytwisted
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Sept 5, 2014 19:56:37 GMT
OK, anyone who is not trying to catch up on photos from at least 5 years ago is simply not allowed to speak anymore.  |
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Post by Dani B. on Sept 6, 2014 16:01:08 GMT
I started so far behind that I probably never will be able to get caught up. Spending 8 hours a day scrapping isn't an option and probably never will be. I didn't start scrapping till I had been married 20 years and had five kids. Once I started scrapping, I started taking more pictures. Then I went digital and improved my photography skills. Now I have 9 grandkids, too, so the pictures keep multiplying like rabbits. I try not to think about the idea of getting caught up. It's just not likely to happen in my lifetime. I scrap what I can, and I'm not going to worry about the pictures that don't get scrapped. Oh! I totally relate to you. I just begin scrapping after 23 years married and 3 kids. If I begin thinking of how much I will have to do I'll feel discouraged to go. So I am trying to scrap on the weekends and whatever picture I feel is the one for that moment. As you see I don't follow any rules or order. I don't have a clue so far if it's a good or a bad habit I am developing. But I am having fun, relaxing from my day to day problems. That's what's important for the moment. Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk |
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Post by Dani B. on Sept 6, 2014 16:02:11 GMT
I have decades of photos from before I started scrapping in 1998, when my youngest was barely 2. My other ds's were 16 & 13. I have all my childhood photos & my DH's photos. Plus older family photos. Will I ever be caught up? Probably not. Full time work and family commitments mean I will never have enough free time and retirement is far away. Do I stress? No. I scrap what I want when I want. My story may even never be complete. But I am ok with that. Now how many days would that be? 365 +++++. Now if I could scrap & craft 8 hours a day, that would be my dream job. A girl can dream right? I feel exactly the same. Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk |
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Post by mamashosh on Sept 6, 2014 17:59:42 GMT
I could get caught up on my son's photos in about a month or so of full time scrapping, but I have all my older photos and my mother's old photos undone. Probably a year of full time scrapping??? Not happening.
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Post by kittens on Sept 7, 2014 2:32:59 GMT
Never.....I am another slow scrapper who takes way too many pictures!!
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Post by 0612 on Sept 7, 2014 4:02:02 GMT
Since it takes me 6 hours or more to get two pages done. I would never get caught up.
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Post by judyc on Sept 7, 2014 18:42:38 GMT
I love that you did the math and actually tried to calculate how long it would take. Unlike some, I would love to scrap everything I plan to scrap, so now I am going to follow your lead and do some math to calculate the projects I hope to have time to do and using 2 hours per page in the math (although most pages take me longer than that, I think if I was scrapping 8 hours a day it would go faster and I could do 2 hours per page)...............
So I calculated 1176 hours / 8 hours = 147 days. So now all I have to do is find 147 days in my life to devote to scrapping? Interesting exercise. I guess since I scrap primarily on the weekend, if I could just scrap 8 hours a weekend for the next 3 years (and get 4 pages done during those 8 hours), that would take care of it.
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Post by Dani B. on Sept 7, 2014 18:47:12 GMT
Since it takes me 6 hours or more to get two pages done. I would never get caught up. Thank God I am not the only one that scrap in slow-motion... |
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Post by Linda on Sept 7, 2014 21:25:07 GMT
probably a couple of years
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Post by LovMelrose on Sept 8, 2014 15:18:24 GMT
2 lifetimes!
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Post by debbiehodge on Sept 8, 2014 18:05:46 GMT
i'm not sure . . . . . probably a year . . . . but then I"d probably still think I wasn't caught up. I scrapbook photos as I take them, every month missing several bunches that I've been leaving to come back to. And now that my kids are older I find that I actually want to go back and revisit lots of old photos.
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Post by lazytown on Sept 8, 2014 18:58:05 GMT
I think it would take me at least six months! I am planning to take a break from working for a few months and I hope to get the chance to find out. I saved everything from when my kids were littler (they're 10 and 12 now) and took lots and lots of photos (and collected lots and lots of scrap supplies), but didn't do very many pages. So now I need to edit my photo library, print all these photos, and get them into albums. There's no way I would be able to scrap everything, so I plan to do a mix of scrapbook pages and photo pages with a bit of project-life scrapping thrown in. Then I have a few fairly complete special albums like for Christmas and my kids' school and birthday albums, a Halloween album, etc. that I'd like to get completely caught up on. I wonder if this will be possible? Maybe not, but I can dream, can't I?
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Post by iammikki on Sept 8, 2014 19:48:04 GMT
If I just scrapbooked events, maybe 2-3 weeks, but then I think about scrapbooking MY childhood and then everyday photos and personality pages ect ect... yeah, let's go with 1yr. 8 hours a day for 5 days per week.
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Post by SunnySmile on Sept 8, 2014 21:30:20 GMT
Years....and years.
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Post by ladybuginohio on Sept 9, 2014 2:50:00 GMT
It's like laundry and ironing for me. Never. I have wrinkled shirts I haven't worn in three years.
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Post by ladybuginohio on Sept 9, 2014 2:50:38 GMT
Obviously more enjoyable than those tasks  |
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Post by ahiller on Sept 11, 2014 2:53:50 GMT
I could probably do it in a 3 or 4 day weekend.
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tiffanytwisted
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Sept 11, 2014 14:11:59 GMT
I could probably do it in a 3 or 4 day weekend. Oh, shut up. Just kiddin'!!  I'm just really, really jealous!! |
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Post by LisaDV on Sept 11, 2014 22:02:29 GMT
I have 69 layouts or PP monthlies in the spreadsheet, which means I have the photos marked, and 160 stories to tell noted. Assuming the stories to tell are all 1 pagers, then I have 229 layouts at 3 hours per layout. So roughly 86 days. But I also have 12 mini or themed albums that I want to do, so I'll take a year. I could use the "down" time.
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Post by jamh on Sept 12, 2014 13:43:21 GMT
Of course we are! This question asked if we scrapped every day for 8 hrs a day could we catch up! We still have all of the photos we will take between now and 117- we will have to scrap those pics too. We'll probably be sleeping alot by then too, so 8 hrs a day is probably out of the question. Phew! Just checkin'! |
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Post by jamh on Sept 12, 2014 13:47:05 GMT
Of course we are! This question asked if we scrapped every day for 8 hrs a day could we catch up! We still have all of the photos we will take between now and 117- we will have to scrap those pics too. We'll probably be sleeping alot by then too, so 8 hrs a day is probably out of the question. Phew! Just checkin'! |
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Post by jamh on Sept 12, 2014 13:49:14 GMT
Of course we are! This question asked if we scrapped every day for 8 hrs a day could we catch up! We still have all of the photos we will take between now and 117- we will have to scrap those pics too. We'll probably be sleeping alot by then too, so 8 hrs a day is probably out of the question. Phew! Just checkin'! |
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Post by creative*moma on Sept 12, 2014 14:13:34 GMT
I'm not sure how long that would take. Right now I'm scrapping pictures from 2012. If I had to take a guess I'd say 6 months if I scrapped regularly and really plugged away at it. I am one of those scrappers that likes to be caught up. Many moons ago I enjoyed scrapping more because I was caught up and could journal easier because the memories and facts were so fresh in my mind and heart. I never had the feeling that because I was caught up I didn't have pictures to scrap. I was constantly taking more pictures so there was always something new to scrap. I was also able to scrap more "moments" layouts rather than mostly events layouts. After so much time passes I have a hard time remembering what was special about those "moments" pictures. Another bonus to being caught up was I shopped a lot less. I was fortunate enough to have several good LSS in my area at the time. I'd take my pictures to the LSS and buy what I needed. These days I tend to buy on a whim and a lot of what I buy doesn't get used. Hmmm...maybe we need a group for those who want to get caught up. This would be me Except I'm scrapping pictures from 2009. I loved scrapbooking current things, my memory really sucks so it's hard to remember the little details. After having my youngest DS, that's when the time to scrap disappeared...trying to get back in the groove of scrapbooking regularly so I can put some dent in my stack and start scrapbooking the current things. |
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Post by joellejello on Sept 12, 2014 16:01:22 GMT
years. no joke.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 16:27:17 GMT
I haven't scrapped in years! I'm about 8 years behind. Assuming I do one family album per year, with 50 pages in each one (about average based on previous albums), that would be 400 pages. I'd say about 20 pages per year for my kid's ongoing albums, so that would be 140 pages for my oldest daughter and 100 for my younger dd. Plus a baby album up to the first birthday for d [HASH]2, at probably 60 pages. So that's a total of 700 pages. I probably could do a page an hour, so 700 hours. At eight hours a day, it would take me 87.5 days to catch up to the end of 2013. Do I win for being the farthest behind? Lana |
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Post by tduby1 on Sept 12, 2014 19:11:57 GMT
I would say a week. I go to two weekend retreats a year in which I am able to crank out anywhere from to 80-100 pages once I get in the groove.. I'm never more than 6 months behind. I really love the pages I do in a "crank them out in a non stop manner groove", too! Much more so than the occasional "sit down and crank a layout out" layouts. Something about getting in a groove and going full force gets my creative juices going. So, once I got going, I might even be able to finish in less than a week. However, I would need 5-12 scrap buddies and lots of snacks to set the mood, lol.
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Post by ametallichick on Sept 12, 2014 19:23:28 GMT
I think it would take me a few weeks. I am about a third of the way finished with 2011 and I have a couple pages to do for 2010 that I forgot about.
I also have my wedding album to do (I was married in 1995, lol). I have only done about 3 pages. It's daunting.
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Now I'm sure I'll never come close to "catching up" 
