To not want to buy school photos?

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I feel like I'm being a tight old grump - but I have 3 DC. That's 3 x £25 for the cheapest option for each photo set. Then another £25 for a joint photo as two of the DC are in the same school. All the pics are lovely - in an ideal world I would buy them all. But I just can't justify spending £100 on four photos

What makes it worse is that DD keeps looking at them and saying they're lovely and she wants them in her bedroom when I get the 'big ones' .

Does everyone else buy them? I having bad mother guilt

i have bought this years because dd just started in reception and they let me put ds1&2 in them too (who are 3 and 1).
but i wont buy any more because they are bloody expensive.

I have been known to scan them then send them back . that way I can print off the 2 pictures I actually need and not have to buy the excessive number offered in even the smallest package. I have noticed that they are getting wise to this and just sending thumbnails home to view now.

I hate the fact that the schools around here send the order form home first and if you dont order them your child is pulled out of the class and not photographed at all,it embarrasses them. Mine used to beg me to buy them after they instituted the order form first policy ( mind you Im sure that was instituted because of people like me in the first place :o)

I hate the fact that every pack I have been offered comes with loads of small ones; there was no option for just one decent sized photo. I paid a fortune this year as it is DS1s last year at school, so I bought for all three because they like having the class photos, plus one of all three together for the first time. I now have endless spare photos as we don't have a lot of family, am thinking of handing them out to passing strangers

They are shockingly over priced for what they are. Our cheapest option is about £18.

Limited that has really made me laugh

Most schools I know of will give extra timeslots for sibling groups - that way you can get all of 'em on one set at least.

My mother used to buy them every year (I hate getting my photo taken) with the comment that "if you ever get kidnapped I need a decent picture to give to the police to put on the news"... thanks mum!

At the school they used to do really nice portrait ones now they have a different photographer and they do dodgy angels and really close up! I didn't bye them last year because of this, What happened to the way they used to do it? I much prefered it

My dd school did the separate groups photo shopped together thing. I hated them. The photographer had the teachers doing stupid poses and in more than one case children were included twice . They also did ever group club team etc they had been in all year so at £18 each if I had bought them all for both it would have been over a hundred £.
They also wanted £1 to keep the proofs.
I only bought my dd's under protest as it was her last year and kept all the proofs and didn't pay for them.

i'm quite shocked at the price of PPs pictures!

DD came home yesterday with her proof, it's quite good but there are so many options to purchase - my fave (and something to annoy the hell out of family with ) is
2 x keyrings
2 x keyring size pics
2 x fridge magnets
2 x fridge mag sized pics
15 mini pics

£12.25! great for distant rellies christmas pressies

Our school's cheapest pic was £7.50 for a 7x5.

This year it has shot up to £10 for one 7x5.

I only buy them if they are very very good shots. I have thousands of photos of my kids, some of them better than the professionals'

You could always take your own pics, and Asda do all that sort of thing where you can put them on mouse mats, canvas, keyrings etc for very reasonable prices.

Think I may talk to the head after hearing about the cost of pics in other schools compared to ours

This year the pictures were awful and really expensive.

I will take my own so I can keep a record for this year