I'm doing science? and I'm still alive. She/her/femme af.
This with chocolates, with candles, the l with bath soaps, with stickers, with earrings, with gift certificates, with fine china, with everything in life. Material things are happiest when used.
Use the materials you're hoarding.
Use that cute pen, the fancy tape, one of the 40 notebooks.
Draw with those alcohol markers before they dry up.
Art materials are meant to be used, not gather dusts.
"I'm afraid to waste it." Time spent using them = experience. And experience is never wasted.