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I have gotten rid of a lot of freebies that I downloaded since I started scrapping way back when.

I do have a hard time letting go of other stuff and other than the MOC (100% Store Designer product) and monthly challenges (75% Store Designer Product) the gallery is still 50% Store Designer Product. Yes templates are 15% but at least you can still scrap with product no longer in the store or by an outside or retired designer as long as you are meeting gallery requirements or challenge requirements.

I like that, as I love to use some of my stuff from Dawn Inskip. After her passing, using a few of her goodies makes me smile. I like to scrap and remember her, as I miss her so very much.

I do still use a lot of my older stuff for cards etc. I have a hard time letting go of things!
 
I keep my old kits and will use them if they are one I really love or it just fits what I'm scrapping. I love doing challenges though - so of course those are usually newer kits. I am also probably a bit of a kit hoarder though so may not be the best person to ask.
I do have a couple of external hard drives. I have one that goes with me if I'm ever away from my desk (sitting in the living room or in the car while waiting for a kid at practice) and those are usually the newer kits/pictures. I then have a hard drive that is for older photos that I am not working on scrapping - this one is a smaller (size wise) hard drive that I could take easily with me - and sometimes have some older kits on this one too. Then on the big external hard drive that needs a plug and sits on my desk - I have folders for retired designers, old kits that I don't use much, retired kits from stores that for challenges don't allow retired kits (some do allow them and those stores I usually just keep all the kits in one folder...it just helps me not use a retired kit if a store doesn't allow it for challenges if it isn't in the store folder but I don't want to get rid of the kits so they just go to a different folder). The big hard drive also gets a copy of the current stuff that is on the portable drive and then all of them are backed up to a cloud too because I don't trust them not fail at some point
 
I have also been around - 2005 or 2006. I look at the old stuff I bought and I wonder what in the hell was I thinking! The truth is, it was beautiful back then, but things have come a long way, baby, in terms of QC and style, and that god awful computer generated texture on everything.

(Of course, now it’s back with all the AI, and yes, better, but not a whole lot better IMHO.)

Which doesn’t answer the question about galleries and posting retired designers, but I don’t post LOs anyway, unless there is a point to it, so I don’t worry. If I like it, I keep it. If I don’t love it anymore and the designer has gone somewhere else, I might move it to purgatory - a folder named “By Designer” where I move kits I still pretty much like. Miss Crow used to be a LilyPad designer, I think, and she had these wavy satin ribbons, I just HAD to have and have never used ….they’re in Purgatory along with Dawn Inskip who produced art.

And after that it goes to Limbo - a place in my scrapbook folder where I move the one or two elements from a kit which i still love and after making sure the designer’s name is on the file name, move it to “elements” folder. Then it is a final goodbye and R.I.P.
 
I started digi-scrapping in 2005 or 2006, and amassed a LOT of kits. There are some really kits, and specific elements, that I return to time and time again, even though the stores are long-closed and the designers are long-retired. I have a folder of "favorites" that has a few hundred things that are my go-to items, or favorites that I don't want to have to hunt down.

I've gotten to the point where I have more kits / supplies than I could use in my lifetime. So now, if I don't like it any more, or I don't use it, I delete it. Although I don't adhere to this rule perfectly, I'm trying to be of the mind that if I'm going to buy something new, something old has to go.
 
I tend to be a digi-scrap hoarder. That said, I did spend a vacation week a few years back going through my hard drive and deleting old freebies (I'm much more picky about freebies nowadays), and old kits that I hadn't used and no longer appealed to me.
 
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