Thursday, May 01, 2008

DO WE NEED A DAY FOR THIS? National scrabooking day.


I just learned that Saturday is national scrapbooking day...This has to be some sorta joke. Those of you with wives that are involved in this addiction understand that too them everyday is scapbooking day. They attend crops (shop), they hangout (shop) at the stores, the go to message boards, they go to websites, they blog about it, they get packages in the mail, they do swaps (not what you think), they take up rooms of your house and SPEND, SPEND, SPEND both time and money on what could be the most expensive hobby on the planet.

Think about the cost (both hidden and obvious) involved in putting photos in an album.

1. Cameras - You are looking at over $2000 divided up amongst 2 cameras, lenses, bags, memory cards etc... This is not a one time cost, scapbookers must have the latest and greatest in photo technology
2. Photo Developing - This isn't cheap and it never ends.
3. Paper - You wouldn't think that paper could that expensive, well you are wrong. Single sheets of paper can cost as much as $1 per sheet.
4. Postage - My house has turned into a freight hub for Fed Ex & UPS. If a stamp is almost 50 cents I can only imagine what the cost of a fed ex package is.
5. Machines - Believe it or not scrapbooking requires $200 plus machines.
6. Computers & Printers - Yes I used the plural form of both words
7. Computer software - Must have $200 worth of Adobe products
8. Stamps, stickers, glue, scissors.....
9. The actual book
10. Storage - You must buy a house that includes a scraproom which means an additional 20k on your house cost, storage bins, book shelves etc...$$$$$
11. Crops - These things will cost you $$ & freedom
12. Overnight Crops - A bunch of women in there Pajamas sharing one shower should be exciting...
13. THESE ARE NOT ONE TIME COSTS
Guess where your tax rebate check is going.

If you will look at the entry level costs that I put together above you need to keep in mind that these same people are usually the first to complain about the cost of gas going up 10 cents. The cost of one piece of scrapbook paper could cover the price increase on 10 gallons of gas. These same people have a large contingent of eco warriors. Never mind the fact that half of the rain forest is sitting on a storage shelf in their scrap room, the chemicals used to develop their film and used in their glue. I am sure someone is going to make a fortune off of GREEN Scapbooking supplies.

Yes scrapbookers are hypocrites as well as big spenders.

So do these people really need a day? No. How about a day without scrapbooking?

What does your wife have planned on Saturday? BE AFRAID.