Think I would get a headache trying to sort that one out but a long time - maybe not 35 years worth though. Great question

We just needed to be quintuplet girls. I do sometimes think that I continue to buy new designs and acquire freebies as if there is no end I sight!

I am with you and grace. I support the embroidery community as best I can and I spend hours looking at designs when I am not up to stitching. Too bad I can't stick around to stitch out all my favorites as there are so many designs.

oopsI think I will not have enough time and years to stitch them all, but it's great if we have a collection to choose, however ....even with all the designs we have we sometimes still have not that particular one we would like to embroider .....🤣

I'm not sure Rescuer. I've only been embroidering for 20+ years. I have some free designs from early years, but have bought most of my designs, but I wouldn't have as many as you.
I love seeing designs sewn out in our PROJECTS section and often that will lead me to a company and look at their designs. Then of course that leads me to buying more designs. I know it is an addictive hobby, but what a wonderful way of spending time doing the thing we love to do. Love Chris

Given the time it took me to duplicate my files to a new external hard drive and seeing it needed half a Terabyte of space I am afraid I will never see them all used even if I lived another 45 years, which would make me as old as Sarah. So I try not to buy new designs but I am still digitsing....

You are not alone. lol Hugs

Another life time.Every year I put all my designs onto a DVD & it counts every letter , number & design in the files.Last time it was around 100,000.I have lost all my designs when the hard drive or USB has died ,so I don't take any chances now.Also it is handy to have a back up, if a design becomes gets corrupted.

Not even going to try to figure that out. I don't do math!! But it is an addiction to collect designs we know we will probably never stitch out. I try sometimes to delete some of the earlier, less sophisticated designs I know I won't use. Hugs. Nan

Live long enough to stitch them out! I'll be lucky if I live long enough to organize them. I'm so addicted! Of course in my head I've made all sorts of lovely projects, which feeds the addiction.

I would have to be older then Methuselah and yet I still will buy some more. Addicted!!!!!

I'm the same way with fabric! I could stick at least twenty years with what I have but yet I buy more - to "fill in." I could put a design on each square of every quilt and still not run out of great ones. Most of mine are from Cute!
Thank you, Miss Veronica!

I want you to be able to "retire" sooner - try 3 a day! I think of my collection of designs as a well kept library and resource, so that almost whatever people ask for, I can stitch. I have enough designs and fabric for sure and I think enough thread till it rots (10 years or so). As I scroll down and read comments, I see that this is an old post and I have already commented. Oops!

I love this post and everyone's response! I can't begin to know how long it would take me to stitch out all my designs. I do know that I am trying to buy less and get rid of designs that I would never use. (yes, I use to download any freebie available - I know better now!). About the time I decide I am not buying anymore - I see two, I just have to have. lol - oh, well! Hugs to you, Laura

I realize this is a post from a year ago but very timely for me. In performing a back-up today, my computer informs me that 266,750 items will be copied--and this number is NOT complete as it is does not contain unzipped and uncategorized files for nearly all of 2020 and 2021.
If I stitch only one design every day it would take over 730 years to complete them all if I add no new ones. Should I stop collecting...???

I just checked my "sorted" fonts and found I have nearly 12,000 fonts, not individual letters. I still have 8,000+ zipped files that need to be sorted and 9,000 individual designs. I have about 150 folders for sorting designs... I know I have collected so many designs from so many websites... It boggles my mind every time I go to sort them! I am grateful I have so many to choose from and I am sure the various digitizers welcome my money. I love that we can have a hobby that takes little space and is filled with so much hope and promise!

You are not alone, I would need a few more lifetimes!!

I stopped collecting fonts awhile ago unless the were really different.
At the beginning of the year I burnt a dvd of all my designs which were on a usb stick & it took about 2hrs.I have other designs on cds.
As for all the other sewing & craft items I have ,another 100yrs might be required.

welcome to the club LOL

It boggles my mind to even think about it! I lost count years ago!!