To ask how you do photo albums in this ‘modern day’

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Do you print your photos off for physical books? Do you do a digital album? Throw everything on a hard drive? Do you just use social media and whatever is posted is the content you’ll use to look back on? Or is it just stuff jumbled up on your camera roll?

I guess I got nostalgic looking at my childhood photos and I want something for my own son to look back on. I was thinking maybe a digital photo album, so it won’t physically get lost or be a risk of fire etc. Does digital still have that same nostalgic factor though?

Every Xmas we sit down go through the years photos and have a year book printed, it doesn’t cost to much and they are great to look back on as they have the highlights in them.

I’m going to steal this idea.

I have been keeping a journal for a couple of years so after trips and events will print off photos and stick them in there.

Think 'oh, I must print these off', but never get round to it 😃

We've got printed photos that we've framed all around the house, including a couple of feature photos that are blown up to A2 size. We've printed photos that we've given out to family members, we've done photo books for both kids for their baby days, and when they're a bit bigger I'm sure we'll do something for the next chapter. They like looking through the photos app as well but there are so many photos on there that it's impossible to get an overview so we seem to look at a different time period each time they open the app.
I used to think digital was the only way to go until I accidentally deleted all the photos I ever had of my dad shortly after he died. I was devastated.

I did an annual photo book when my DCs were small now we do a holiday one. It’s lovely to have those memories

I don't do physical photos any more except for the DS' annual school pic and a few more we have on the wall. Everything digital is backed up to the cloud.

To look back I search by date or location, and look at the little collages my phone auto generates.

PIL sometimes give us grainy, blurry printed snaps they've taken of the DC which is a kind thought but we don't have anywhere to put them.

I print a photo book after every trip and then bore my family with them.

I still do albums, it does get a bit much though. I like the idea of one a year though I think I’m going to steal that.

I do an album a year; I had a really morbid moment of thinking that if I died all the photos I have would be hard work to get off my phone for my family and also i have so many how would the kids ever sort through them so I started doing that

I do books for big events or holidays, but I do like the idea of doing one for a whole year. we’re in the middle of a house move so I went through old albums last week and it was lovely to look back.

It saddens me how many we take that sit on the cloud using up energy and water for storage, never to be looked at again.

I still do photo albums. The very first picture in the first album is me at 9m pregnant with my first DC who is now 22. I buy big albums and it takes probably 2 years of pics to fill them. I only choose highlights and my favourite pics and usually do sort of digital pics and ordering of prints twice a year. We don't look at them often but I like curating them, and knowing they are orderly. When there is a funeral in the family I can always easily put my hands on pictures to share memories.

I do a yearly photo book online, usually themed by month. We also use a drop box to collect and store photos. I do occasionally get photos printed and framed too, I find it a bit sad that everything is digitalised nowadays.

I used to love looking at old photos from my childhood so every now & then I get photos printed in a book for the dc to flip through. S they have got older though I take less photos, need to up my game!

I also have a load framed & hanging up the stairs

That's me!

I still do photo albums. Every few months I go through the photos on my phone, print out the best ones (I'm fairly ruthless) and stick them in an album. I also make photo calendars every year for my parents and my MIL.

i do an annual photo book at the end of the year, upload everything digitally and they send a lovely hardback book. think I’ve used Popsa for the last few years.
I also have square fridge photo magnets from Photobox that I will do, probably get 9 every 4-5 months or so.
Occasionally I will have some prints to frame or to make a collage.

Such good ideas here. I need to do the annual or holiday one