To the SB Addicted: When did you realize this was an addiction?

HI.

I realized it was an addiction when my DH asked me "Where are you going to store all of that?" When I came in from Amazing Savings with 4 bags of scrapbooking supplies (they sell Jolee's Boutique for 49 cents!!).

So my addiction is in two Rubber maid drawer cubes, One Side Board, Two

12 x 12 File Folders (the big kind from Creative Gear) 6 8.5x11 file folders (also from Creative Gear) Three Decorative Boxes filled with stamps, and of course my Sizzix (and a rubbermaid box filled with dies) & Zyron Machines.

Paper and Stickers are my mother's downfall for me. She tends to buy out Michaels on a bi-monthly basis for me (or whenever they have paper on sale). I love Fibers, brads, bradlets, and tags -- I have yet to figure out how to use them. I'm trying though.

Luckily for me (or is it unluckily for me), I'm saving for Baby accessories for my sister so my scrapbook money is going to my niece (who is due in April). I guess I also should have bought a clue when my Brother-in-law saw a tee shirt and told my sister to get if for me. It says "Scrapbooking isn't my hobby, it's my addiction." ;-)

Love Kate

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I HAVE THAT TEE SHIRT! lol Seriously I do! My mom bought it for me for my birthday!

Hi my name is Kimberly. I am a SB addict. I am not here to kick the habit. I am here to find enablers to support my habit. I have been an addict for 10 years now. I knew I was an addict when I made DH sell the bed in the guest bedroom so I could have a scrapbook studio all to myself. I knew I was really in trouble when I installed a lock on said room to keep scissors and paper from walking off into my children's art projects. My two serious downfalls are paper and alums. For some reason I buy albums because I like them and then store them in a box until a future time when I might need it. I now have two boxes of them. Paper....well what can I say. One can never have too much paper. I would rather have a ton of paper then to not have what I want at any whim I feel like scrapping.

Kimberly

Hi, my name is Deb. I've been scrapping for 3 years. I realized I was an addict just recently. I heard somewhere that sheetrock tape looks exactly like the magic mesh stuff. My first thought was "But is it acid free?" That's when I realized I was addicted, because I think of things in terms of "acid free" and "photo safe". So, I hereby fully admit to being a SB addict, and hope there's no 12 step program to cure me! (Just yesterday, I took a pic of DS to use in a future "Imagination" layout!) I'll gladly let this group enable me while I'm at it, too.

My downfall is embellishments. Embellishments of all kinds. Brads, eyelets, fibers, ribbon, wire, beads, Jolees, etc. If it's an embellishment, I'm a sucker for it. I've been very good lately, too. I think it's about time I go be bad. LOL Hey MC & Kenda, where's the scrapbooking stores again?

Hello, my name is Chrissy and I've been addicted to SBing for 3 years now. I have only made a page a year so far, but I'm addicted to buying supplies. Every time Michael's have a sale on their paper I go and spend at least $10 on paper I really don't need more paper but you can't pass up a good sale. I relized I was addicted when not to long AC Moore was having a scrapbooking event and with a coupon your got 50% one regular price item. So I had DH get an item and I got an item each using the coupon and we went in and out of the store 4 times doing that. Thats when I relized I was hooked. The credit card company's actually called us because the cards were used so many times in one day at the same location.

Chrissy

HI Guys,

Check out

and locate a store near you. They sell closeout scrapbooking supplies -- Jolee's 49 cents, Metal stencils

25 cents, foam stamps 10 cents, Pioneer scrapbooks (all sizes) 2.99, etc.

All stores vary and now that they bought out Odd Jobs, who knows what they will get. You know you are a scrapbook addict when.......

Ha Ha Ha, Kate

I have been scrapbooking seriously for a year and a half and not so seriously for about 6 years before that.

I realized it was an addiction when I did a scrapbook of a cruise we took with some friends. I did one for them and one for us and was at the scrapbook store every other day getting paper and stuff. (Not really, but it seemed like it!)

I guess buying a large piece of furniture to store all my stuff in was kind of a hint that this is an addiction too.

LOL Kate, unfortunately there are no stores near Little Rock or near St. Petersburg! whaaaaa...

M-C

Hi, my name is Linda and I AM A SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES JUNKIE! LOL!

My new motto is "I will not shop, I will not shop - unless I absolutely need something for a page or it is an organizational item"! I am so bad that I joined a Yahoo group for scrapping from your stash. I could open a store with my stash, that is if I could bear to part with it. Here is the story of my addiction.

I have called myself a scrapbooker since 1997 but in reality I was a scrapbook supplies collector until 2003. Oh, I did a few layouts in those years but nothing to really amount to anything. I had never even finished an entire scrapbook - I had many started though. My true scrapbooking began oddly enough with a swap. I was sitting around one day playing with my stash and wishing I could come up with a page. I used to do that a lot, spend more time thinking about scrapping than actually scrapping. I had this swap for page kits lying around and thought - Hey I could make a whole book with this stuff! And that is what I did in less than a day I finished an entire scrapbook. That day was an eye opener for me. It was then that I realized I was not a scrapper but a collector who pretended to be a scrapper. Over the next nine months I completed four more scrapbooks. And also did several pages for incomplete books. I finished out 2003 with 113 pages. That is more pages than I have finished in the entire time that I had been scrapping! In 2004, I scrapped 257 pages. That includes four complete books. My goal for 2005 is 365 pages. A page a day or several speed scrapping sessions a month. I can do it! I set this goal for several reasons. First, I have an abundant supply of photos and scrapbook supplies both of which I need to get using. Second, it is a challenge on a Yahoo list I belong to. Third, I'd love to get caught up at least to 2003 before the end of the year. I am hopelessly addicted but loving every minute of it. Especially now that I am actually scrapping. As for my not shopping motto, I can't stick to it. I have tried and this month I actually have only spent $12 - up until yesterday that is. QVC and my Qcard did me in :) Don't ask about last month - too much shopping to even mention. Oh well, at least now I am using my stash not just collecting supplie. All the layouts that I have finished so far this year have been exclusively from my stash.

Hey, if I buy something today, tomorrow it is from my stash right?

Linda B. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 Scrapbook pages: Month - 14 [goal 30] Year - 14 [goal 365] Visit my family at Our Little Site on the Web - scrapping, genealogy, SCFE and much more!

Drats! No stores near me.

Lynne

Linda B Wrote: My new motto is "I will not shop, I will not shop - unless I absolutely need something for a page or it is an organizational item"!

I respond, yeah ok -- we can come up with an excuse as to why we desperately rationally need this item/this tool/this paper/this pen/etc.....

LOL, Kate

I did a search for a location, but alass.........nada. I already knew there was not one in a 25 mile radius......I have to drive 50 miles one way to get to a Michaels!!!! One of the pitfalls of rural southern Indiana. Sandy

Hello, my name is Sandy and I've been addicted to scrapbooking for eight years now. My downfall is tools and techniques. I've got to try all of the newest and latest tricks.

***You know you have a problem when you start buying scrapbooking supplies in the hardware section of Wal-Mart and your DH just looks at you and says "I don't want to know." ***You know you have a problem when you plan a vacation and the map has a scrapbook store marked every 50-100 miles 'just in case someone has to make a pit-stop.' ***You know you have a problem when you take your scrapbook paper with you to the portrait studio and match the backdrop with the paper before they take the pictures. ***You know you have a problem when you drive 100 miles (round trip) to use a 50% off coupon at Michaels for a sizzix die. ***You know you've created a bigger problem when your 8 year old DS and your 12 year old DD each have their own rolling cases (suitcases) and their own paper stash, cutters, stickers and embellishments. ***You know you have a problem when your daughter plans her wedding around your monthly crop Saturday. Yes, I'm hopeless............... Sandy

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh thanks for the laugh Sandy. I loved your list of "You know you're addicted when...."

Hello My name is Sabrina and I have been addicted since 2000. I knew it at once and proceeded to the next step of ,Floozy then Flass.

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

Ok Sabrina, just one more teensy step and you'll be a full fledged MESA!

Hello, my name is Christi and I am addicted to scrapbooking, swaps and supplies (the dredded triple Ss!). I am also a proud MESA (master enabler of scrapbooking addicts). I've been scrapping seriously for just over 2 years now and non-seriously for about 2 years before that. I knew I was addicted to scrapbooking when I entered my first real scrapbooking store two years ago. I knew I was addicted to supplies long before that (in fact, if you ask the ladies here, I even cleared out most of my other crafting stuff to make room for my scrapbook supplies!). I now have one entire room dedicated to my supplies, and while I could scrap in there, maybe, if I tried REALLLLLYYYYY hard to squeeze in, but I also have two other scrap stations set up that I use regularly. However, my best confession is this... I knew I was addicted to SWAPS when, on another group I belong to, I volunteered myself to take over several swaps from two hostesses who flaked on their own swaps and then had a grand total of 15(!!!) swaps running all at one time! Not only that, but I corrupted my dh into helping me when we had some drop at the last minute! I'm now down to having only 4 running and I can actually see the floor in my scraproom, but the biggest question is, now, what am I gonna do with all this stuff I've swapped??? Oh, and the paper thing, well I have a 39x14x19" storage trunk that is so full that I can't even move the paper around in it right now... And having just decided that I really like the vintage/heritage look, half of the paper isn't even what I want :( (oh, and I too drive 90 miles round trip to visit my Michaels...and they're 5 miles closer than my LSS!)

-CC, who's drowning in supplies, swaps and scrapbooking and LOVIN' EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!!

Christi, I too have been a crats addict over the years - thank goodness I didn't get rid of a lot of my supplies as they seem to be coming back in the form of scrapbooking: copper tooling - now I'm using it to make my own embellishments counted cross-stitch - the threads are now in my scrapbook supplies ditto to crochet thread sewing - there's no end to the possibilities there (fabric, threads, buttons, hook&eyes, zippers, sequins, quilting, etc........ stained glass - I saw it recently used in a scrapbook mag beadwork - you know where that has gone!!! foam craft - I'm using foam now to make shaker boxes acrylic paints - now we're making our own background paper stamping - my old stamps are out of the archives now stamp collecting - I'm sticking some of my old stamps on my heritage pages - who go buy copies of old stamps at the LSS when they're here already and real? I know there's more......... Sandy

You guys are all too funny!! Glad to be one of you:>)

When my dd got married 4 years ago, I moved things around upstairs so now Hubby & I are in this tiny little bedroom & I have the big room for my scrapping/craft room:>) There is very little room for anything else in there, but it manages to hold a couple of friends now & then:>)

I'm still an addict, but since I've started buying for the shop, I've managed to curb my own spending a bit (just a bit mind you, I still never bring home a whole paycheck!!)

A friend of mine is getting ready to open a shop - she keeps bringing me catalogs to look at and asking me what I think. I think it would really help my habit if I could be a buyer for a store - I did that for the family lumber yard for years - I was in charge of the hardware section. Boy, do I hate it when I go to a hardware store to pick up/out supplies and one of the older guys tells me why don't you let your husband come in and get what he needs. When we gutted the bathroom in our old house and remodeled it I went to get all of the pipe for the plumbing and I was figuring totals of fittings from my diagram there and a guy said that to me - I lost it - told him if my husband knew anything about plumbing it might help, but as he is at work and I'm the one installing it I think I know what I want - I went to another place to get my supplies I was so mad. When we got married my husband hadn't even used a power tool. I had to teach him. Sandy

LOL

The last time some "little man" at a hardware store said that to me I asked him if he would like to see me weld a hammer because if he did I would like to know if he wanted to be an upper or lower soprano?

My husband was bowled over laughing because he knew that "Bob Vila" is my hero in the home improvement arena (Sandi Genovese in scrapbooking). I also took shop instead of home ec in high school.

Oh well, We just need to teach them a thing or too huh? Ty watch out.

Kate