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AIBU?

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Family photos in the home.....

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deliakate · 05/09/2013 18:21

Are they tacky? I think my parents thought they were and consequently, we had none on display of anyone.

What do you do? Do you have lots of nuclear family/you and dh only, or are there lots of extended family too?

Maybe it's a class issue - I always see loads in upper class homes and in more working class households too.....

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missmargot · 06/09/2013 19:43

We have them in one room- our study has a giant bed spring style memo board on the wall with photos pegged on. They aren't formal and we change them quite regularly.

EATmum · 06/09/2013 20:14

We have a wall of photos of all our DD and I love it and so do they. They plan the photos that should be added in. I'm always drawn to photos in other people's houses too. I think they tell our story.

lola88 · 06/09/2013 21:22

I was a millionaire i'd have a whole room decorated in wall paper made from pics of DS and DN.

Mine are all down at the moment await the hall being plastered but once thats done my hall way will be a gallery of all my favorite photos

HarumScarum · 06/09/2013 21:38

No family pictures at all apart from a few snapshots on the fridge held up by magnets and a shot of DH and I v drunk in a photobooth just after we first met (no, not snogging, and yes, fully clothed). I really really do not like them. The one of DH and me is hidden in his bedside drawer in a frame.

IneedAyoniNickname · 06/09/2013 21:53

In my lounge I have
18 pics of the dc (some of just 1 of them, some of.both)
2 of the dc and me.
One of me and my brothers, taken on younger bros 18th just a few days before older bro moved to Oz. Both brothers also have the picture up in their houses.
One of my Grandma, who I miss madly.
I also have a photo clock which im going to fill with pictures of various family members of the dcs choosing.

In my bedroom I have
2 pics of the dc (one of which is a black and white version of one from the lounge)
One of my nephew's,
One of my friends dds who I consider to be family.

I love my photos. Both my parents have loads too. On the walls, or on shelves.

MmmmWhiteWine · 06/09/2013 22:20

I love my photos and definitely don't think they are tacky. Having said that we've mostly got small photos in frames on the mantelpiece and sideboard ......not so keen on massive colour studio type prints. Although we do have a massive B&W canvas print of our DDs on the wall in our family room...but it's a photo of them in silhouette walking away from the camera so it's a bit less obvious, IYKWIM. I've just bought a ridiculously enormous montage frame that holds 30ish photos for our kitchen and I can't wait to fill it. Don't care if that makes me non-U!

MmmmWhiteWine · 06/09/2013 22:22

Another thought....staggered that some people DON'T have any family photos on display. That's weird...

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 06/09/2013 22:26

Why is it weird?

My Mum doesn't have any photos of us up, she says she knows what we look like.

Although since DS was born she has printed a few of him and they sit in her kitchen.

HarumScarum · 06/09/2013 22:37

I don't know why it's weird, either. I like having art or prints of art on my walls, not people I already know.

we do have a massive B&W canvas print of our DDs on the wall in our family room

This is weird to me! It seems really peculiar. I honestly cannot see the appeal.

HarumScarum · 06/09/2013 22:38

Also the fact that it's a B&W photo in silhouette just screams 'ponce with twiggy shit and fairy lights and probably leather sofas' rather than 'less obvious'.

MmmmWhiteWine · 06/09/2013 22:46

I think it's weird because if you have a beautiful picture of your children (which I'm sure you do) why would you not want to look at it? What's the point of even taking photos if you don't look at them?

And the photo of my girls isn't poncey...it's actually less of them and more of the landscape they were in at the time...they just happened to be in the frame when I took the picture and to me that makes the picture even more special.

Love that you think you can tell what my house is like just because I have a photo on my wall! What a snob....

Silverfoxballs · 06/09/2013 22:53

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MirandaGoshawk · 06/09/2013 23:14

I have a pic of the dch when they were small, and a very small one of us taken on honeymoon. It's tucked away on a shelf. There is a special holiday snap of us stuck to a noticeboard. That's it. I suppose I think that having photos of yourself up all over the place is a bit ostentatious. I think a lot of things we do depend on our childhood - never any photos up in my parents' house - and we either follow it unthinkingly, or make a conscious decision to do things differently from our parents.

My friend has three large pics of her wedding day up on the wall in her living room and I've always thought it was odd, showing off somehow. But I suppose they remind her of a happy day. I hadn't thought about it like that.

Birdsgottafly · 06/09/2013 23:20

I don't have photos because I always imagine that the person in the photo will be in a different position if I look and look away again, iyswim, similar to the story at the start of "the Witches".

I avoid looking in mirrors (or any reflective surface) when I am on my own, as well and cannot sleep in a room which has uncovered mirrors in.

I really need to stop watching horror films.

FloweryOwl · 07/09/2013 00:55

I have thousands of photos, but they are all on memory sticks, laptops, phones and cameras. I really need to get them all printed and in to albums. Around the house I have photos of my children in the living room and on the landing. I've never had any photos of me or my husband up around the house, until recently... my MIL bought us a fucking HUGE photo of me and my husband on our wedding day in a silver frame for our anniversary. I've had to put it on display so she wouldn't be offended so it has a small corner in the dining room. The thing looks like a bloody shrine.

ceres · 07/09/2013 05:23

we have lots of photos framed and on display - lots together, in different frames, on a sideboard and more dotted around on book shelves. none on the walls though.

I don't care what anyone else thinks of my house, we live here and we like it the way it is.

mathanxiety · 07/09/2013 18:49

When selling my house a few years ago my agent told me to take down all personalised items so as to allow potential buyers to imagine their own lives there. It was really nice to unpack them all again and surround ourselves with them.

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