I will put my tongue in your ass but I will not scrapbook your fucking vacation pictures.

[naamah_darling]

I left a shorter version of this in comments to ursulav's rather ashamed post about her fear of being mistaken for a scrapbooker. That post is worth reading in its entirety. Ursula is awesome

Comments

[arielstarshadow]

What sorts of things do you buy from the scrapbooking aisle?

[naamah_darling]

Paper of all kinds, ink, embellishments (gears! tiny keys! typewriter-key-like little brads!), antiquing spray, mounting tape, blank envelopes and cards, blank item tags, those little foam squares that make stuff stand out, peel-and-stick glue dots, sticky-backed jewels, mica powder, hole punches. . . . There's a ton of stuff in the scrapbooking section that is awesome to have on hand.

[hollowdoll]

I'm like that with Pokémon cards. I have invented a fictitious somewhere-between-four-and-nine-year-old son (depending on what I want) of an imaginary single mother friend for whom I buy/collect various Pokémon things (and it's actually worked wonders on Freecycle, where an adult asking for such things for themselves is ignored but as soon as a child is involved, it's like !!!! "OH PLZ TAKE MAH STUF"). I'm not entirely ashamed but when it comes to the Freecycle stuff, it's just easier to say that.

[aphephobia]

:( Aw.

See, I'm not into Pokemon (my sons-- who are four and eight years old-- HEH!) are, but I love seeing adults geek out about geeky shit like that.

[hollowdoll]

I went through a phase where I was embarrassed that I liked them (in my hardcore goth days), but as I got older, I was like FUCKIT & dove back in wholeheartedly.

Plus, a fair amount of guys & girls have really dug that about me & found my lack of shame about Childish Stuff That Is Fun© attractive on some level >_>

[jenbooks]

I am 43 years old, and a Pokemon addict and I am not ashamed!

Although I never got into the trading cards.

[toxic_iguana]

Despite totally different hobbies...I understand.
I feel the same almost uncontrollable urge to babble to the cashier how those instant mashed potato flakes are for feeding my sourdough mix.
Not because I can't cook and would feed that to my SO.
Not bashing Betty Crocker or anything. :D

[wikdsushi]

They make pretty good emergency sauce thickener, too, and passable potato candy. I have yet to see how they work in lefse.

[syncopated_time]

Let me add my voice as another person who worked in the friendly neighborhood chair craft store

[syncopated_time]

*chain, chain craft store. Going for coffee now before I try to brain any more.

[nekosensei]

Yes...some of us yarn people are...well...rabid.

(starts lurching like a zombie) Mmmm...yaaaaarn....

[naamah_darling]

Yes! Exactly. I've SEEN some of these scrapbook pages and they are AMAZING, so there is no reason at all for me to feel this way.

[akacat]