Do you have loads of printed photos?

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If so what do you do with them?

I have quite a lot but haven't printed any in years now so the ones I have are quite old.

They won't be displayed and are taking up valuable storage space.

Feels a bit bad to dispose of them so wondered what you do or if you've streamlined your printed photo collections
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how old? some of my nan and grandads 0hotos from the seventys are so cool and retro, I like even the ones with people I don't know because it just looks cool

Even the 80s and 90s are cool.

Actually even the early 2000s are cool.

My point being that people buy old photos for scrapbooking and art projects so I wonder if you can sell them? or is that too personal?

I found some old photos of people in my house house I brought it and I have kept them, even though they aren't mine, because they ate someones memory and special.

I don't think I could bin them.

your grandchildren will find them valuable. hold on to them.

I just Box mine up under the bed but they do cone out quite often.
you'll be dead one day and your family would be gutted to find your photos binned.

My DH scanned all of our printed photos ( before we got a digital camera) onto a cloud drive so we can access them anywhere. We did this in case of a scenario where they would all be destroyed ( eg fire/ flood) and it was a time consuming process but might be an option.

As a family we have loads, going back to early 1900s. I sorted them all out into plastic boxes, a decade per box and they are stored in the loft. The 70s/80s/90s boxes are rammed full of our childhood photos, the box from 2000 on hardly has any at all.
They rarely get looked at but I can't throw them out. I feel like I'm keeping them safe for future generations to look at. I do get quite sentimental about family photos though!

I make a point of, around once a year, using one of the online photo printing companies and getting a big batch of my mobile photos printed out.
I refresh the photos in frames in the home to more up-to-date ones (other than the couple of baby photos) and the rest get added to the Photo Box, which usually lives in the loft.

As a child, my mother always had a Photo Box and I used to love looking through it and asking who all the distant family was. I think its a dying art now and I feel its important, for me, to maintain the tradition so that in years to come, I have physical photographs to look at rather than Facebook albums or photos just lost to broken phones or hard-drives.

The Photo Box comes out the loft around once a year - when we add in new ones. To date, my kids and myself continue to enjoy looking through them and I hope always will.

Following with interest as I have loads of printed photos in albums. Loads. I now never print photos, all on my phone. I can't throw the printed ones out as then they'd be lost forever but the thought of scanning them all makes me want to lie down in a dark room 😂

Does anyone have any recommendations for a easy scanning of photos?

Yes I have an app on my phone called free prints and it's really cheap to get printed photos posted to you. I just choose the pictures straight from my phone. I have a family photo album on the go and only order the pictures that I actually want to put in there so there's no spare photos lying around. Usually remember to do it a few times a year after my sons birthday, summer holidays and christmas etc.. I don't put pictures of my son on social media so this is the only way for me to do something with all the pictures I have of him in my phone!

I got my old photos scanned. My mum also gave us all a packet of photos dating back to the 60s - got those scanned too.
I plan to eventually get photo books printed for me and my siblings from them. No one is going to look at them while on my computer, but if I make a nice coffee table book they might!

I have some family photos that are more than a century old, including a family portrait of my great grandparents and their seven children taken in 1908!
The pics I took of my own children are in albums, as are holiday snaps.
When I die, my DC can divide them up as they wish.

I love printed photos. Every 3 or 4 months I do a photo booklet of all my mobile photos from that time period and update/add to my photo frames with pictures and tiles.

So me, all mine are on display

Not ALL my mobile photos, that would ridiculous, I edit them down to the good ones 😁

I use free prints too, get a batch printed every few months. I love photos and you never see them on your phone, nor does anyone else. Keep the packets in a box

I keep them in a box. They are my treasures, possibly more than jewellery or stuff. Lots of memories, especially of people, pets or places that aren't here anymore. You could scan them digitally. I couldn't ever bin them though.

I keep them in loft in a sealed container. I haven't printed any out since eldest was less than a year and she's 5. I keep meaning to, going to cost a fortune but I like them being printed and bring them out to look at, it's totally different to having them stored digitally.

Please don't bin them.

I print them regularly and keep in albums on a bookshelf upstairs. I have 2-3 albums per year of 300 photos in each. I’m not quite sure if I can keep this up for the rest of my life as there would be too many! But without them the photos on phones get forgotten about. We like looking at them every so often and I love that my mum has ones of us when small.

I have boxes and boxes of photos. When I get time I will scan them and then bin them. If I ever need to get them printed again (I won't), I have the negatives, they don't take up much room. You have kept your negatives, right?

Don’t bin them. Securely box them up, or if you’ve time put them in albums, labelled so future generations know who was who.

My Granny did the latter with all hers in the early 2000s, and they’re an absolute treasure trove; we’re so glad we’ve got them.

I ordered prints and put them in albums up until the dc were about 13, after that I have ordered photo books for some special holidays or things we have done (I think the Google photos photo books are great so I just do those). I don't have any significant ones loose.

I print a book for each year and after a holiday. I have lots of photos on the walls, and some small canvas ones. I know mn hates photos but I love them.