Confessions of a Paperholic.

Hi, my name is Shirl, and I am a paperholic.

I have been one for many years. Originally, my illness was limited to notebooks and writing paper. I had a file drawer of ready-to-use notebooks, and a bag of journal type books. Finally, even I could see that enough was enough, and I tapered off, only to get in on the beginning of . . .

The Scrapbooking Craze. More paper. Paper of every color, every design, with embellishments. Paper that of course I would one day make into beautiful scrapbook sheets. Utoh.

For Christmas and my birthday I received several gift cards to Michaels, the craft store. I had thought I would slowly use them through the year to buy scrapping and craft supplies. That plan went out the window when Michaels ran an ad for the Crop in Style P3, a Pop-up Paper Plus Storage Tote. I had been eying the P-3 just the week before, thinking I might use the 40% discount coupon that often comes in the paper for this purchase. However, the sale price was way more than 40% off. Time to move, and I almost missed out even then. There had been seven units the previous week. I purchased the last one in the store.

Yesterday I went through all the bins and boxes I have paper in, and my P3 is quite full. To give you an idea of the scope of my addiction: the P3 has 9 trays that hold up to 80 sheets per tray.

Yep, my name is Shirl, and I am a paperholic. And if I'm tempted to go buy more paper, remind me to open the P3 and look on my stash. Better yet, remind me to scrapbook some pictures!

Do you have an addiction?