To ask what you do with school photos?

[Mehfruittea]

As in, where do you hang them? When you have a few, year after year. Do you have same frames? Gallery wall? Dot them around the house? Different sizes?

Help me. Show me how you make it look good, and not like a rogues gallery!

I buy the medium size, send the smaller ones to the grandparents and display the current one. Old ones go upstairs into a pack of 'school' stuff we have but I imagine when they're older I'll get a little one out as a reminder of when they were cute (!)

I still have favourite baby pictures up and potriats as a family when DS was a toddler. I kind of thought I'd end up with 13 years of school photos on a wall somewhere.

does everyone just keep the current one up, then into a memory box they go? As a n almost ready to admit hoarder, this troubles me a little!

I just buy the digital key and flick obligatory shots to expectant family.

I always buy the class shot for the kids to keep.

My friend has got her children's ones hung on the wall as you go up the stairs. They start off young then get older as you go up the stairs!

I've got my son's first one in a frame on a shelf, and also his most recent one. The other ones get put into a photo album.

Good idea with the stairs, I've always liked those and I do actually have a baby pic and pregnant pic together at the bottom.

I'm not very good at changing things or getting round to hanging new ones up. I still have last years photo propped up in its cellophane and photo day is next week. That's what got me thinking about what to do with them.

Any other ideas anyone?

I don't buy them we have a professional shoot outdoors instead on holiday every year the pic are much much better.

Op the fact that you've had it a year and done nothing with it tells me you don't love it.

I keep them all in a box then embarrass them by getting Moonpig cards with one on. DC are 35

I loathe them but they have to be done. DD enjoys getting them, then they get shoved in a box in the attic and forgotten about.

I once went to someone's house and they had them blu tacked to the walls in their cardboard frames. Eurgh.

We don't get them every year just if we like them or if it's a significant event (class one when DS1 moved school)
We have them up on the playroom wall in a mix of photos of the kids, nieces & nephews & framed kids artwork

They do have to be done at all, spend the money on nice photos

I have a folder with clear plastic wallet type pages and I just slot the 10 x 7 ones into that.
Obviously that dosent work for those annoying long ones that come rolled in cardboard tubes. They just stay in the tubes.
I do wish they would stop changing the sizes though.
I don't bother putting any on the walls.
My yr5 daughter currently has her framed class one on her desk as it was quite cheap to get the one for my folder and the smaller one for her.

I hate the bloody things. I refuse to buy the leaning-on-each-other-by-a-big-clock ones and whole school ones. I used to buy the individual/siblings one but last time the proofs went missing in school. By the time they'd turned up I would have had to have paid postage charges so didn't buy them. It was VERY liberating as I'd always felt obliged in the past.

The school photos were always shite anyway and are shoved in a box in the spare room.

I do love the last years pic, I have it on a window ledge near the sofa. If it was framed, that's where it would be.

Sorry to drip feed, didn't realise it would be relevant. I have a chronic pain condition, am disabled and work full time. DH also works FT and picks up my slack on household chores. He's also a menace when holding a screwdriver and cannot be trusted (multiple a&he trips). I can't do something and the redo it every year. I sort of need to decide what I want and then stick to it. I haven't been to a shop that sells nice frames in the last 12 months, hence no frame. I want a nice one and frames are not easy to get online as you cannot tell the quality. I've often seen the same frame for sale at 1.99 and 21.99 with all numbers in between, so have given up on that one. When I decide what I will do, I'll buy frames that will be stored until needed.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions, any more keep them coming!

I have a frame and each year I place the next one in front so from nursery to year 11 are all In a frame it’s fab to look Back through x

I have a frame that sits on the fireplace and the new one gets put in in and the old one behind not displayed anymore, there's plenty other pics of them growing up round the house.

Stopped buying them years ago. Poor quality, strange package sizes, too expensive.

Don't buy them. They are never great. The odd mediocre one. Mostly shit though. I save the money and then every two years get everyone out into the woods with a fab photographer and get some beautiful shots we all love.

I like the idea of keeping them in an album rather than having lots on display (great for pulling out for maximum embarrassment when my DS brings home his first girl/boyfriend ...

I keep the newest photos on display in the living room, ones from landmark years (reception and first year of secondary) dotted around the house and the rest in their memory boxes.

Thanks very much folks, I have a plan now. I will get a special frame and keep all of them behind the latest one.