Scrapbookers are Collectors

Scrapbookers are collectors. We often talk about how we have too much stuff or we buy supplies without having a use for it. People sometimes become collectors of scrapbook supplies instead of scrapbookers. Sometimes people who are scrapbookers experience this problem, too. I don’t want to analyze this particular issue in this post today, but I bring this up to get us thinking about how scrapbookers are collectors.

Scrapbookers are collectors of memories and stories. Scrapbooks are collections of memories and stories.

Perhaps this is why scrapbookers seem to be happy people. In The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin decides to start a collection to increase her happiness and finds that it does increase her happen.

Of course, a collection could become burdensome, hence the interest in things like Unclutterer, Real Simple, and minimalist living.

I think the lesson though is that collections can make people happy but there is a line that can be crossed where a collection can make a person unhappy. If you are unhappy about scrapbooking, it is important to figure out what is the source of unhappiness. Is it too much stuff? Is it not the right kinds of supplies? Is it disorganization? Is it something else?

What kind of scrapbooker are you? Are you a collector of scrapbook supplies or are you a collector of memories and stories? Perhaps, you are a little of both. Let me know in the comments below.
If you want to read more about The Happiness Project or my Scrap Happy Project, check out the other posts in the Scrap Happy series.

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Stephanie