So I totalled up my Paypal...

I totally do NOT recommend doing this.

See, I budget $30/month for scrap supplies, and since January, the SP has paid me $300, which equals $25/month, and in my mind, I thought I was staying pretty close there to only spending five of my own dollars each month.

But, I assure you, I was wrong.

More like I was spending the thirty bucks I have budgeted PLUS the twenty five from the Princess.

Dang, I thought I was doing so good.

And that doesn't even count the money I spend at DD, which goes on my credit card. I would think that number might be around fifty dollars total, since really I only buy tool-ish sorta stuff from Anna, most of the time. But I'm definitely not gonna be checking my account there to find out the exact number.

If I were a fast scrapper and could crank out a page a day, I wouldn't think that number was so over the top. But considering all of the unused kits on my EHD, I'd say it is definitely excessive. :(

Joel asked me once if I really NEEDED to spend $30/month on scrap supplies. He was being sincere; he really didn't know. I told him, "It's just as necessary as your daily Ice Blended Caramel from Coffee Bean is."

And then that conversation was over. Clearly.

But regardless of his excess, I feel certain that I am accountable only for mine. {Oh, how I wish the Lord would judge me based on other people rather than His standard sometimes!}

So I have been avoiding the rush I get from window shopping, because if I don't know what new stuff is out there, I can't want it. And if I don't want it, I don't buy it.

I did cheat a little this week and buy one set of Cindy's new templates, because come on, now, it's like she looked deep into my heart and created those templates out of the 2 page love she saw in it.

I even got my Hari Raya pictures scrapped already!

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And then today, I just couldn't help myself, I picked up Kaye Winecki's templates at TLP for a buck. And as soon as I opened them up, I realized that one of them was perfect for the cover of Jack's 2007 album, which I abandoned last month when it came time to actually commit to a photobook printer.

So I got busy on that, and then I decided to start uploading my pics while I was finishing up the cover, and there went my afternoon.

I decided, for reasons that are not really clear to me yet, to go with MyPicTales. I like their software because i downloaded it and then open my layouts inside of it and I can see what's gonna get cropped. So I spent my afternoon resizing a few layouts, and now I just need to finish resizing the rest, finish the cover {almost done} and make a new page (because yes, I found another page that was so awful I cannot bear/bare {sp?} to print it). So by the end of the week, hopefully, Jack's 2007 book will be ordered and all will be right in the world. {well, it won't ALL be right because I'll still have to finish & upload Max's 1st year album, but at least now I'm a few steps closer to world rightness.}

I hope you all have a happy Tuesday. My youngest son screamed hysterically when my helper arrived today, so I just couldn't leave him {okay, let's be honest, leaving also involved showering, and I didn't get around to that till almost noon}. Then my oldest child refused to eat lunch, was sent to his room and then puked his guts up a couple of hours later. Sorry, kid, that you have such a mean mom.

But I do come by it honestly.