It's All in the Numbers---With a Twist!

I found the following article on-line years ago, but thought I would share it, since it still applies today!  The author (Rockester) had the right idea back then...create your own Counterfeit embellishments, rather than buying more supplies!!! 

YIKES!!!

"Did You Know? A Word About Stockpiling Scrapbook Supplies"

Submitted by rockester on May 20, 2005 - 22:00  Taken from organizedscrapbooks.com

• "Did you know that an inch of pattern paper is estimated to be 100 sheets or 75 finished pages?
• Did you know that one inch of cardstock is roughly 50 pages finished? How many inches do YOU have? How many pages do you do a year?
• Do you have over 12 inches (1 foot) of cardstock or printed paper? Do you realise that is enough paper for 1000 pages? Are you stockpiling for someday when you already own enough paper to do thousands of pages?
• Did you know that one tin/set of 100 eyelets makes and average of 20 pages? (And how many sets of 100 do YOU own?)
• Did you know that many paper packs and multi sheet slabs usually have 10-20% of their patterns that will not suit you within a pack? (one sheet in 5 may not be to your taste so don't keep it in the stash--share!)
• Did you know that each sticker sheet you own will do approximately a two page layout? If you have binder full of stickers it will equal about 300 pages to use them up?
• Did you know that each yard of fiber you own will make 1-2 pages? If you own a skein of knitting yarn, they contain between 100-200 yards of fiber? At that rate it will take you 100-200 pages of JUST THAT SKEIN to use up that yarn ball on layout pages? (SHARE!!)
• Did you know that the average gel and writer pen ink longevity INSIDE a pen is 1 year before it is generally dry or unusable? (Use them up before they DRY up!)
• Did you know that playing music when you scrapbook helps your creativity and productivity?
• Did you know that starting with a format saves you 20 minutes PER PAGE?
• Did you know there are 1000's of free sketches online? Watch our links for sites. If you can't find those free ones online to print and refer to, or need ideas for crop parties, get Becky Higgins Creative Sketches book and also her Creative Companion book. Sketches are simply awesome for versatile formats of layouts.
• Did you know that shopping once a week at the scrapbook store costs most scrappers an average of $25.00 each trip? (And most of those have enough items at home already to make 1000's of pages.) $25.00 times 52 weeks a year means $1300 spent per year.
• Did you know that sticker letters cost an average of $3-$5 dollars a sheet now? Buy black so that later you can mix and match later your partial sheets for 'mixed font' titles. It will save you at least a dollar a sheet to BUY BLACK! Why? Because you will eventually get more many titles per sheet that way!
• Did you know that one ABC sticker sheet usually makes only 2 titles before is is 'cast off' by most scrapbookers? Over 1/2 the stickers are then wasting away in binders or storage and clogging up precious storage space--never to be used again.
• Did you know that people will pay $1 each for two punched flowers and a brad or pop dot? (Think Jolee's, K and Co, and Paper Bliss) Do it yourself for a fraction of that. It takes only pennies to make a stacked flower from your scraps and chalk the outside petals..... I know you have scraps and brads, eyelets or pop dots! LOL Pay yourself about $20 to $40 an hour and make a few dozen sets instead of buying them.
• Did you know that stamping your own twill ribbon with phrases saves you $2.00 a yard?
• How many pre-made ribbon yards do you have that you need to use up? Wording ribbon usually works out to 1 foot per page. If you have a stockpile of 20 yards of worded ribbons of all kinds, that means you better get cracking and make 60 pages before you buy more!!"

Just for fun...tell us how many inches of paper you have accumulated?  And how many pieces did you use up last month (April) doing the Counterfeit Kit Challenge?