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Are photos important

6 replies

Tasha149 · 03/05/2019 21:21

My husband and family don't think photos are important. But to me they are. They remind me of the old days with my family. Only I can't stop worrying that I should of taken way more.

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BooseysMom · 03/05/2019 21:26

This is a good one! I've just spent £14 at Boots getting 70 photos developed then I have to buy an album for them all. So yes to me they are important. I could keep them all on the phone/laptop but I would rather see them in physical form

RefuseTheLies · 03/05/2019 21:29

They are important to me. I lost my brother, dad and mum in very quick succession when I was in my mid-30s. Photos are about all I have left of my family.

Tasha149 · 03/05/2019 21:29

Do u print every photo x

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Tasha149 · 03/05/2019 21:30

I ask people to take a photo and they photo my children but some how manage to crop me out. I find it heart breaking there's not many with me and my kids x

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AutumnGlitterBall · 03/05/2019 21:32

I used to print loads but i now have shelves full of albums. The last two years, I’ve bought a Groupon voucher for a 100 page photo book and then spent about a week making it up with the year’s photos. They’re all on my phone these days so it was reasonably easy. This way, I still get to see the photos in a physical form that I can go back to but they don’t take up as much space on the shelf.

SmarmyMrMime · 03/05/2019 22:07

Photos are so important. I have a few of my dad as he died when I was young, a good few years before digital photography made photos virtually disposable.

DM found within days that she was struggling to remember his face from the trauma, so she put up lots of photos of him.

I'm quite vain about wanting photos, they are a record of what we've done, and I like photos of myself, even if they're honest rather than flattering. It's important for me that there are photos of us as a family. I take most photos and if anything ever happened prematurely to me, I'd hate to be invisible from the family collection because I always did the taking.

In a home, photos are one of the most personal ways of showing the identity and personality of the people that live there.

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