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for those who really do not want any help with their stamping addiction....a different 12 step approach: (you can tell I've got a lot of time on my hands....this is based on the actual 12 steps of any addiction recovery programs I found on the internet...only it is backwards).
1.We admitted that we are powerless over stamps and our lives have become crazed with rubbah and we will always be flat broke, with no nest egg in site.
2.We have come to believe that no one is really ever going to be able to restore us to sanity and we don't really want them to.
3.We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to all things associated with the rubbah.
4.We made a searching and fearless inventory of our stamping supplies, only to discover that we do need more ribbon, even though we need to store it at our neighbors house (non-stamper, so she won't touch the stuff).
5.We admitted to the world the exact nature of our wrongs and can only surmise that our only wrongs are not having enough matching brads and every coloring tool on the market.
6.We were entirely ready to make sure no one removed any so-called defects of character, as any defects are usually related to lack of stamps, either rubber or acrylic.
7.We humbly asked our friends and family to never remove our shortcomings concerning stamping, as this is purely ridiculous. Stamping is a shortcoming?
8.We made a list of all persons we have harmed by not sending them a card to brighten their day, and have become willing to make amends to them all by making more cards with daily trips to the post office and having loads of stamps handy at home, with our own personal weighing machine to handle bulky cards.
9.Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others (by giving them papercuts to their fingers when opening envelopes and handling cards, or when they throw the card out and thus, strain an arm muscle, in which case, they deserve this injury).
10.Continued to take stamping inventory and when we were not low at all, promptly admitted we needed to get even more stuff, including the newest Cropadile which can reach 6" across a 12" piece of cardstock.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our stamping skills, praying for more knowledge of all things rubbah and for the power to carry out more challenges on SCS, including giving more comments.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to anyone who will listen to us, to get them to stamp too, and to practice these principles when we finally quit surfing SCS, in order to actually stamp something.
LOL!!! My husband has a 12 step for his Aquarium Reef addiction...and if you can imagine...its 10 X more expensive than stampin'!!! Guess we'll never have a retirement fund!!!
Life is all about PERSPECTIVE right??? And I think you have nailed the perspective of it all perfectly. Thanks so much for sharing this.
__________________ Life is Way to Short NOT to be QUEEN. side note: IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO PLACE THE TIARRA ON YOUR HEAD... DON'T!!! Get your own and be Queen.
Exactly what I have been looking to subscribe to! As hard as I try, I cannot stop spending. It is a definate obsession. Probably if I had any other kind of life, I could beat the habit but alas I have confirmed today that it has beaten me.
12 Step Stamping Program
