Confessions of a Digi-Scrap Hoarder

LOL! I am a hoarder too. My hardrive is a hot mess. UGH

 

I too am a hoarder of kits and photos. I have duplicate folders of pics that I cannot bring myself to delete, it is utterly shameful. As I was browsing the store (and currently still am because I want everything) I suddenly remembered that I have kits from when this store first opened I don't know exactly when that was but I cannot bring myself to delete those either. Oh and I forgot to mention I have 2 ehd's one 500GB that is full to capacity and a 1TB that I got for Mothers Day that I will fill up fast I am sure!!!

 

LOLOL!!!!!
I hate Xmas yet I can't stop buying all the Xmas kits

 

oh this made me nearly spew my coffee! LOL

 

ok so here what i do. I use iPhoto. We have everything divided by month and then by date (easier for project life). Then I have a "to scrapbook section" which is a duplicate of the same albums, but I delete the stuff I won't scrap and then as they are scrapped those duplicate albums get deleted.

 

um i'm with you. i just pretend it isn't like that and move on!

 

i have 2 500 ehds that are both completely full and now my 500g laptop is almost full. so im am not the person to ask about this. lol. i need a scrap hoarders intervention.

 

I think you should definitely delete that old stuff. Just like reducing clutter in your home gives you peace of mind, reducing digital clutter can help you out too. In 2008, I deleted a ton of stuff, even from my EHD, and starting over with just stuff I actually WANTED to use made me feel more creative & excited about scrapping. I even tagged stuff I hadn't used so I would remember. It was kind of like shopping for free.

Right now I have about 25 kits I haven't used, so I'm trying not to buy anything till I get that number in the single digits. {Though I will admit that it's SO HARD when there is so much cute stuff out there!} But it does make me happy to make a list of unused stuff and cross things off it. I love crossing things off a list!

 

I'm no help, I'm a digi hoarder too. However, I am slowly deleting those horrid-looking freebies that I downloaded on my first big freebie craze about 6 years ago. I mean, these things have zero texture, or are so obviously digital it is scary. I was keeping a few thinking I'll add texture overlays that I've accumulated, but good grief, I have no need for this stuff. Really!

 

I prefer to think of myself as a collector! LOL! A picture has to be pretty bad before I'll delete it. A bad picture sometimes still tells a story. But, with digi stuff, I have actually gone back and deleted some older kits and stuff that I know I'll never use again. But, with the rest of it, if I think I might use it again, I'm keeping it. HD space is cheap. I have all my pictures and digi stuff on my 1 TB external hard drive and I think I have about 600 GB on it total. I think that is totally reasonable considering I've been doing digi since 2006 and I've been on two site CTs plus many other individual CTs!

 

I am a hoarder too, in digi and real life! I know... I NEED HELP!

 

LOL! The naming fairy saw your post

 

I'm sure I have just as many pizza boxes in my waist deep trash, I just use ACDSee to tag it all and organize it. I've made it through my stash at least once ditching all the old freebies, extra file folders and just stuff I look at and go "what the HECK was I thinking... did I BUY this stuff?" and am on my second pass through moving from my EHD to my new computer's hard drive. It does make me feel a little bit better but I'm no where near perfectly organized.

I delete photos that are truly blurry only if I have ones that aren't. If I want to tell the story a blurry photo is better than no photo.

 

I wish I had the space to be a hoarder (digitally). Paper scrap...that's a different story. I have two trunks and several boxes full of stuff. lol