To not put up photos?

[MistyGreenAndBlue]

I've never put framed photos in my house. No family pictures or anything.

It's just never really occurred to me to do this even though my family all do it, especially my mum. And I see on TV shows that it's a common thing to do. People even comment on it when they enter a home without family photos up as if it's a moral failing of some kind.
I'm almost 50 and have NEVER done this. Maybe I should.
Am I weird? Am I the only one?

No, I don't like photos on display. But then that's quite hypocritical because we actually have two large frames, one of each dc with chronological pictures of them from age 1-18.

Each to their own .

I'm the same. Hv flagged it as part of assessment.

A former colleague of mine was applying for nationality through marriage to his local wife (we were both expats). The authorities needed to be sure that they really were properly married and not just for a passport. One part of this was an interview, the other part was a visit to your home where one of the things they looked for was family photos on the wall.
I was really shocked when he told me. We would have failed if it was us. The closest we have is a photo of DSs feet.

Not a single photo on display in my house but lots of great art on the walls.

My family live here and I see their faces all the time - I don't want to see photos of them with a fixed expression staring back at me when I'm walking around my house. I like my house to look nice.

We don't have photos up, just art.
A lot of friends have family pics up, seems completely normal.
I'm not such a fan of the giant, posed canvas filling the wall but each to their own.

My mother thinks it's common to have pictures of living relatives up and reserves her walls for dead ones.

@Hankunamatata

I'm the same. Hv flagged it as part of assessment.

Yes. This is what I mean. People can be weirdly judgemental about it. As if NOT having your family's mugshots grinning at you from all corners of your living space makes you some kind of cold-hearted deviant

My mum always had (and has) family photos EVERYWHERE. In one house, even in the bathroom.
Grandparents were the same
I dont know why, but I just don't want it.
Hideous school photo related trauma maybe. 😂

I have one family photo of us but that's it. Why would I want a load of walls covered in pictures of us especially those awful posed ones from photo shoots, I don't like those at all.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t so do think this is rather odd. Suppose it’s personal preference like anything else. I don’t have any cringe photos up by any means, just some nice ones in plain black frames.

My mother thinks it's common to have pictures of living relatives up and reserves her walls for dead ones.

I love this

Definitely no to the cringey posed family ones! During the first lockdown the teachers made a video of themselves at home and one teacher had a whole series of those photos behind her on the wall. White background, all wearing the same clothes. Cringed on her behalf .

I have photos everywhere, bit I wouldn't find someone weird for not having them.

I've got quite a few up in the living room, a few in the hall. I know lots of people who have none though and I don't think that's odd. They tend to be people who don't like clutter. Some people aren't into photos at all. My husband has never owned a camera, never takes photos unless I ask, has never had a photo printed or framed. We have a photo of each of his departed parents up, but even those were inherited already in their frames from their house and it was me who put them up. He would have probably left them in a box or a drawer!

Not a single photo on display in this house. I can’t stand them for some reason. Doesn’t mean I love my family and friends any less though.

I’ve just hit on why - to me (to me!) it feels performative like social media - perhaps a pre social media chance to showcase your perfect family?

I think it’s bloody weird when peoples houses are covered in photos of themselves. A few - fine, any more than that is bloody narcissistic IMO!

Our house probably looks narcissistic
My DH is really into taking photos so we have framed and put a fair few up.
I don't think anything of it if other people don't though, each to their own.
I don't think I'd really notice to be honest.

I’m a portrait photographer and I don’t even have many 😆 just not something I’ve done. I have two photos of my Late dad Up, one newborn photo of my son and that’s it.

I am really not a fan of photos on display. Some people I know have photos all over the place and to me it kinda looks dated because of the time of the photos!

No I don't want to see pictures of my famt every day 😂

*family

Me neither. I have one triple frame with each of my children’s reception photos in but that’s it. I have a friend who has all these professional photos of herself all over the walls, definitely not for me. I don’t even have a wedding photo up.

I always think the people with lots of portrait pictures on the wall are the people with “Live, Laugh, Love” on the wall too

Not for me...but each to their own.

I don't really. I have one or two of my child in a small frame but i don't want to see loads of photos of myself around the house

I can't imagine why anyone would want a giant canvas or have the walls adorned with pictures of themselves:'it's always seemed odd to me

@NewMatress

I like your rules . I know a couple, and when you walk into their house its like a shrine to the two of them. Pictures of them both everywhere, not even them with other people, just the two of them. It's bizarre and a bit odd.

I cannot make the excuse that I dislike clutter lol. Just pictures of my ugly family. 😂
(They're all right really)