Oscraps

Today I have another fabulous scrap story from Olga, all about hoarding, or rather ‘collecting’ our digital stuff for scrapping with! Have a comment or a story of your own to share? then please do pop into the Oscraps forum HERE and share it with us! We would love to hear it or just chat with you!

Scrap Stories: It’s Collecting, not Hoarding…

I have exactly 4,177 templates in the folder creatively named ‘Templates’, and a couple hundred more scattered across random designer folders that I haven’t gotten round to moving to the proper ‘Templates’ folder yet because… well, I have priorities. My collection is vast. I have templates for all occasions and styles, from minimalistic white-space-three-elements-only beauties to super artsy blend-and-mask-like-a-scientist-possessed monsters. I have templates from designers who stopped designing years ago… I have vintage freebies from back in the day when some of the current designers were just bursting into the world of digiscrapping by generously handing out works of art… I have simple 3×4 grids in a variety of corners (of all things) that I can’t believe I actually purchased, my only excuse being that I was still learning how to use my software and thought drawing a rectangle was the one hidden skill I could never master… But the true gem of my collection? Stuff I haven’t even unzipped yet. Yep…. I clearly needed those back in 2016.

And don’t even get me started on kits. No, really don’t. Even my Windows Explorer needs a moment (or ten) to process the total size of my 7,854 folders. I WILL disclose that I have two EHD 520GB each which I don’t use much these days. I will ALSO admit that a significant portion of the 1TB on my laptop is taken up by kits… but will NOT go into further details. I wouldn’t want to give you lot the impression that I have a problem.

And yet, those hundreds of gigabytes of goodness and creativity are somehow not enough. Not nearly, for those who say getting supplies for one’s hobby is a hobby in itself… are spot on. Oh, the joy of browsing a store, clicking on kits and bundles, looking through sample layouts, mentally selecting photos from my library… the heartache of realizing I don’t have a template to suit my imaginary layout… and the instant relief that comes from browsing some more. Welcome to my world of… well, let’s not call it hoarding… collecting would be a better word.

Before I know it, my coffee has gone cold and my way-too-smart watch insists it is time to stop hobbying and face reality because – apparently – all the things that need doing have once again refused to do themselves. The audacity! So, I add a couple of items to my wish list, sigh contentedly and close the laptop. No, I don’t buy anything. Not today… I’m still working through my last purchase. But I know, I’ll be back in a couple of days… because there was that one kit I saw which is a total must-have!

Well, this was a Monday morning well spent!