How many photos and albums is the right amount.

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Sorting out all the photos and I mean all of them, once and for all over the next month.
I have all the student days in 1990s envelopes, odds and sods from my parents. Shamefully, the kids are mostly on a cloud.

What do people do or want. My MIL is just dismantled her albums. She's decided she doesn't need 2m of albums on bookshelves. Presumably she's ditching the scenery pics.
If I print my digital albums in a book will we just be tearing pages out in years to come? Should I get them printed individually, old school style.

What's working/not working for you.

Can I jump on here and ask how people are storing their photos?

We went through a phase of saving digital photos to disc, but now have nothing to upload them on. Tbh, the amount of times old photos get looked at, they may as well not be printed. I mean, after the first year, I don’t think we’ve ever looked at the 5 packets of honeymoon photos that are in the box (with hundreds of other photos) more than twice, and that was 27 years ago. Thank god for iCloud these days!

I always do photo books nowadays. Takes up such little space compared to a photo album. if you want you can style it to put lots of small pictures on each page (so I have the best pics large then pad out want to keep but not so amazing pics smaller with 10 or so on a page). I design them all myself and it does take ages (I’m a perfectionist about it) but there is an option to get it all done automatically which will take no time at all.
Get offers on groupon and they’re really cheap also.

After a big holiday I do a photo book. I post key moments on Instagram stories and save them on my highlights. I have lots of photos in frames in my hallway like a family gallery and add to it with key moment photo tiles of DCs and DGCs. Also have several old school photo albums - most of these are in a big suitcase in the loft along with loads of random prints. I enjoyed going through my parents old photos after they died so I’m leaving sorting my photos out to my DCs! Also have about 500 on my phone! 😅
Edit to say. Forgot DH keeps loads on his hard drive and we have a digital photo frame that we add to every so often - lovely to see old photos pop up several times a day.

I make photo books but I enjoy making them, or overwise print and store in the shoebox type boxes. They store a lot and take up very little space compared to albums. And then have multiple digital back ups on harddrive and cloud based.

I lost all of my fathers families and half of our my childhood pics in a flood, and am very aware of an incoming digital dark age. Even most of the few teen photos I had taken have already been lost to this, as not backed up anywhere except Live Journal and Face Party.

With photo books do you get a book per child or just leave them to fight t out when your gone?
Agree with digital dark age. I know there's a hole

Photo books for big holidays, my favourite pictures of all things are framed on the walls and for other things I get nice USB sticks, you can get glass USB sticks engraved with silver lids. I have a USB for my pregnancy pictures/ultrasounds etc, a USB for my daughter's first year, a USB for each of my horses who I love to death and have millions of pictures of and a USB for pictures of me throughout the years and they all fit in one little box easily so don't take up any space. I have a couple of albums from my childhood and uni days but would never make anymore due to space, I'll never get rid of the ones I already have though.

I really thinks USBs are the way to go!

Never thought about USB sticks.
Have just thrown out a lot of film negatives and a 3" disk that we'll never read again.
I think USB sticks have a bit more longevity.

I have an ongoing photo book on my phone. I just stick any nice photos on it then print it out once a year - every Christmas to be exact. I also do one after any big holiday. I'm incredibly sentimental and live with a load of cold hearted bastards though so I expect after I'm gone, they'll be binned.

Looking through a load from 2000, the camera isn't bad but the framing, the distance always the same. Do you think we have all become better photographers?
The past looks disheveled and you have to squint to see the good bits.