The Downside of Digital

A few of you know that awhile back I became addicted to digital scrapbooking. I didn't think I would ever convert but the first time I tried it, I loved it! It was so much cleaner, faster, and cheaper. You never found yourself needing one more chipboard letter or having your adhesive not really adhere or having to decide to which papers to cut and then regretting it later. The only part I had to get use to was the lack of dimension and I was even tackling that a bit. Right before we left for vacation in June, I had learned how to add dropshadows and other dimensional tricks. I was even more hooked. After returning home from vacation, I stopped having the time to scrapbook since I started entering inventory info for the halloween store I work for. Two nights ago I went looking for my digital scrapbook folder that use to be on my desktop. I hadn't noticed before, but it was gone. I started poking around and realized that all my papers, elements, and alphabets were missing. Gone. I panicked. Called Jason at work and hoped there was some explaination. Nope, none. He didn't know where they were either. I checked the trash...Nothing there either. Then it hit me. A month or so ago, after Spencer had been playing pbskids.org I noticed the desktop seemed different. But thats all I could figure out. Didn't realize at the time what was missing. The only thing I can figure out is that he somehow had to have moved my folder into the trash. And apparently, my husband doesn't check the trash bin on the computer before he empties it. And thus I believe was the awful fate of all my dig. materials. Thrown out in the trash. The biggest downside to digital scrapbooking for someone stupid enough to not make backup disks. I look at these and can almost cry...