What keeps YOU from scrapping?

[vanyel]

I swear I "clean" and "organize" my scrap room once a week and it takes hours. I keep thinking that if I get more organization it'll be better but it only helps temporarily.

My reason for not scrapping is that the room is in the basement and the dogs don't come down there (because the cat litter and food is there - not in my scrap room but in the basement). They follow me around and want to be with me so sometimes they sit at the top of the steps and wait for me. If dh isn't home I feel even more guilty. Can you believe, I feel guilty about my dogs?

 

[jmc_in_disney]

For me, it's pretty much the same - I work part time (4 to 5 hours per day), we have 10,000 things to do, but worst is that I'm president of the parent's association at my son's school - with no volunteers and only 2 other people on the board, it is basically sucking the life out of me - I have never been so busy - and I feel like I'm drowning in paperwork. I look at my little scrap area (okay, the dining room!! ) and see my MGM pages started and half finished Halloween cards and think "will I ever get back to it...?" I hope so....when I actually feel caught up on everything else.

And now, I must run to a soccer game.....then finish laundry....then finish processing our fundraiser.... It never ends, does it?

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

ok - I'm with all of you.

Guilt. Time. More Guilt. More time. The kids.

The kids are not yet old enough to drive so tah dah........that's me. My wonderful DH (truly wonderful) is gone a lot for work, which I do not mind, but that leaves a lot of the kids stuff to me.

I love my kids. Really, like you wouldnt' believe. But sometimes, I wonder if they realize that I don't have much "me" time. I posted a few weeks ago that one night I was going to be home alone. ALONE. And everyone figured that out about 4:00 in the afternoon that poor mom would be home ALONE. And they felt bad....."mom, are you going to be ok .....home ALONE?" It was pathetic really......the kids feeling bad for mom being home all aone......I said "I'll be fine. Just fine." and on the inside, I was doing the happy dance. SCRAPBOOK TIME!!!

 

[New England Eeyore]

But when you scrap it doesn't stay clean! That is another problem I have. My supplies are pretty organized. I'm not happy with the organization, but things do have a place. But my table is always covered. And it's not a dinky table either. The biggest culprit is paper scraps, and the paper I have out because I'm trying to pick stuff for swaps. Every day that I work on stuff, I have to clean. My scrap space is in the computer room, so DH will come in and just shake his head, laugh, and say, "I thought you cleaned up?"

That's me exactly. I do have a pretty decent organizational system, but I ALWAYS have stuff out on the desks, and I have 2! It's a huge non-motivator to see all the stuff on the table and think that I have to move it all before I can do anything.

 

[momshadow]

Planning more trips to DL! Ok thats just one excuse. Sometimes Im in the mood and some times Im not. But I do need to get all my 100+ pics of our NYC trip in a book.

 

[Macca1111]

Is there something in particular that gets in the way of your scrapping?

Life. Everything that needs to get done instead of things I want to do. Plus I don't have a scrapping area, so it's a pain to get all of the stuff out and organized just to start. When I go, I tend to do 30 pages just because it's all finally out and obvious, but I haven't done any since I moved - too much to do, and I can't justify taking time for fun yet.

 

[Raenstoirm]

After reading this thread it clicked with me, I don't have a "scrapbook place." I usually drag all my stuff onto the floor of my master bedroom and scrap in front of the TV, but when night comes I have to clean it all up again. So it is a half hour to get it all out and another half hour to put it all back, so whenever I scrap I lose an hour! So yesterday I drove to IKEA and bought a big table and one of those funny bouncy stools and set it up in the corner of my guest room (well not a corner exactly it takes up a whole wall.It is over 5ft long ) Now I have no excuse not to scrap except of course tomorrow when I have to find a home for all of the stuff that was against that wall that is now sitting in the middle of the room, including book shelves!

 

[Raenstoirm]

OK well that did not go well. My new scrap room has become the black hole! My poor scrap desk has 4 feet of stuff from the old book shelves on it and I haven't had time to move the book shelves out of the middle of the room yet! Tonight...I shall get it organized tonight! Well lets hope! My attempt at making scrapping easier has currently made it impossible!

 

[TiggerFamily]

This is so funny I was just reading on the Cricut mb how everyone feels guilty when they are scrapbooking. Because there is so many thing every is expecting us to do. I don't scrap half as much as I would like to. With 2 kids, DH, work 2 mornings a week and every thing else I have to do I don't have the time.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

This is so funny I was just reading on the Cricut mb how everyone feels guilty when they are scrapbooking. Because there is so many thing every is expecting us to do. I don't scrap half as much as I would like to. With 2 kids, DH, work 2 mornings a week and every thing else I have to do I don't have the time.

I saw that but haven't had time to read it. I figured it was probably the same thing most of us have posted here.

Why do we feel so guilty about me time????

 

[rlovew]

I guess I am very lucky I used to feel guilty about me time but I don't anymore. DH has always had hobbies that took up time and he says he loves that I scrap and have time to play with all my stuff and that he can buy me things for my hobby.

Rebecca

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Hey, I decided this weekend..that I deserve some me time.. so 3 hours a day, usually throughout the day totaling 3 hours, I scrap.. I may not get but a page or two done..but than there are times I can knock them out.. I'm going to take an hour tonight and knock out some pages!!!

I always feel guilty about it..but you know.. this is my way of preserving their memories..and for that I'm most happy!!!

 

[moikturtle]

Aside from not having too much time to dedicate to my scrapbooking these days, my biggest problem is that I don't have all of my stuff together. I started scrapbooking over ten years ago and over the years I have accumulated a TON of paper, stickers, and other embellishments. The only problem is, without having a ton of space within the house, a lot of stuff has ended up getting relegated to tubs that end up all over the place that include other stuff besides scrapbooking supplies. So it's all just a mess, really. The stuff is all confined to these tubs, but there's no method to the madness. There are so many things that I know I have, but have no idea where on earth it can be. So, without knowing where things are exactly and not being able to access things easily, I simply have been avoiding actually doing much scrapbooking. It's really very frustrating, and I've tried so hard to get some some sort of organization going with it, but at this point it just feels like I'm moving stuff from tub to tub and not really making much progress.

 

[pixiescraper]

WORK!!!!!!!!
it really cuts in on my time for scrapbooking!!!!! LOL

Angie