Organising printed photo albums/photos.

[Fussyeater321]

I seem to have inherited a fair few large boxes of photos from my parents and grandparents. I also have loads of what I’ve printed over the years.

I have got rid of a some (Gran’s trip to Italy with the majority of photos of cathedrals or grandparents trip to Australia in the 80s..)

Most of the photos I’ve kept are photos from my childhood era but they’re just in boxes or already in half filled albums. Lots of pictures of family members eating their Xmas dinner or sitting around the BBQ looking a bit awkward….

Feels like one day I might regret doing a huge cull but I’d need a whole bookshelf of albums to keep/organise them all.

What have others done?

I also had hundreds printed of my daughter’s first 6 months just incase I lost them digitally 🫣

When my Dm died we went through hundreds and chucked loads out. I split them into folders and gave a load away to the family (eg. Any photos of my brother/his kids with dm went to him) then I put the rest in a box in the garage.

Not a very helpful suggestion I’m afraid. My intention was to scan them into photo books but five years on I’m still no further on 🤦‍♀️

I’ve scrapped all pictures of random animals in the zoo/scenery/sunsets/basically any holiday picture that doesn’t have people in it. Also got rid of doubles/similar pictures.

My question is, do most people have photos just thrown up in the back of the loft or should I just cull them down to a few albums that sit on a shelf/to hand?

I’ve scrapped all pictures of random animals in the zoo/scenery/sunsets/basically any holiday picture that doesn’t have people in it. Also got rid of doubles/similar pictures.

My question is, do most people have photos just thrown up in the back of the loft or should I just cull them down to a few albums that sit on a shelf/to hand?

Do a massive cull. Massive.

We "inherited" the in laws pictures of "a funny duck", "the wi lady with the weird orange hat", aunty's Edie's 30th birthday... etc. Thousands of photos AND slides!

If there are any pics of those you love, try and group by rough year/era (mum and dad before married etc).

Then take the best 40 from each group , scan and get printed as a mini photo book. We have 12 books of 20 pages each, people look at them, share anecdotes etc.

When there were 3x60litre plastic boxes of miscellaneous photos and odd albums, nobody looked at them ... not ever.

I've culled those at my parent house (clearing it at the moment). There were literally thousands of holiday snaps, many duplicates and some out of focus (why even keep them in the first place?) They were culled. I made an album for a family member with dementia - pictures of people not places as they get stressed trying to work out where somewhere is. I donated relevant military ones to an organisation who like them for their archives and museum displays. I've kept a few special photos but most I've just got rid of - I don't tend to look at photos and don't want to leave a load for my children to sort out when the time comes. Is it worth scanning any you'd like to keep so they don't take up a lot of physical space?

I try to categorise photos into year, then event (holiday etc) then person.
It is so much easier now with digital photos. I have a folder for each year, then inside that one for holidays, events, kids etc.
I try to scrap the best photos, print them off and put them into a scrapbook or memory album of the event.
Does anyone else print their photos off and put them into scrapbooks, or memory albums?