Julie, you're asking great questions! I think you'll find a pretty wide variety of answers. I take a lot of photos; 700-900 a month is typical. I scrap only my favorites, or ones that work in a theme page I might be inspired to do. In any given month, we might only have one or two "events"; I will scrap those with several photos, but in general I am more often just scrapping with my favorite shots of the people I love. I also order prints for a regular photo album, which perhaps relieves me of the need to "keep up." I just don't think that way at all.
I'm doing Project 365 and doing mostly single page layouts for each week. I might reuse some of those photos in other layouts. My son had a birthday last week, and a photo of him was my picture of the day; I used the same photo again in a birthday layout with one other photo. The photos on my Project 365 layouts are pretty small; if I have one I love I am likely to feature it more prominently in another layout.
I never paper scrapped, and I had been digiscrapping for many months before I ever thought of matching facing pages in any way. But if I'm making a book (I have made one, of a trip we took, and plan to make my Project 365 layouts into a book), I will match facing pages. Otherwise, it just doesn't bother me. I don't scrap in any particular order--not chronologically or anything else--so making facing pages match would be just too tedious for me! When I put the layouts in an album (I usually print 8x8 and put in an American Crafts D-ring album in page protectors), if facing pages clash violently, I move pages around to avoid that--but that is pretty rare. My albums are roughly chronological but only roughly; maybe someday I'll try to get them lined up better, but maybe not! I do date just about every single page I do, so I don't think the albums are too confusing.
I hope this helps a little! You'll find your own way as you go along, and that will be the right way for you. I sometimes wonder if I would be doing this differently if I had little children who were changing all the time, if that might motivate me to more carefully capture all those changes, all those new things, and I'd be right there with them on play dates and trips to the park and so on, which just isn't always the case with teenagers! (Honey, can I come along to the coffee shop with you and your friends and take pictures so I can scrap it? I don't think so!)
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