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How to organise photos

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ToysRus56 · 29/10/2025 11:48

Hello! How does everyone organise printed photos? I feel like I can't stay on top of them. Do you print them off regularly and make photo albums, or boxes or what? Help I'm drowning

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NewYorkSummer · 29/10/2025 11:51

I only print out photos I want in frames. I swap them around every couple of years or so. I only really print holiday photos. How many are you printing exactly? Maybe you need some albums.

ToysRus56 · 29/10/2025 19:50

Hmmm.im wondering whether my issue is that I print so many. I tend to get quite snap happy! Do you not worry about having not printed the other ones? I'm a bit of a perfectionist..

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steff13 · 29/10/2025 19:51

I print very few photos. I take so many, if I printed them all there would be no room for anything else in the house.

NewYorkSummer · 29/10/2025 19:58

I currently have about 4000 photos in my phone library, so no, I don’t worry about having not printed the other ones! I just like to have the best ones of me, DH and kids, most taken abroad or on holiday. I think maybe your best bet is photo albums !

MudandMoet · 29/10/2025 21:01

Since I had my daughter 14 months ago, I use a well known photo printing app to create a full month of photos each month. I’ve no idea why but I do just love looking through them and when family visit it seems nicer than them flicking through my phone. They arrive in the usual old style cardboard envelope and I just date them on the outside. They’ll go in her Pandora’s box just in case there is ever a time photos in ‘the cloud’ are lost forever.

ToysRus56 · 29/10/2025 22:28

MudandMoet · 29/10/2025 21:01

Since I had my daughter 14 months ago, I use a well known photo printing app to create a full month of photos each month. I’ve no idea why but I do just love looking through them and when family visit it seems nicer than them flicking through my phone. They arrive in the usual old style cardboard envelope and I just date them on the outside. They’ll go in her Pandora’s box just in case there is ever a time photos in ‘the cloud’ are lost forever.

Goodness me that is organised. Very good! What is he app? I think I'm caught between arranging in a photo album and something more along these lines. But I'm basically paralysed as a result! But yes I think the issue here is that I feel like I want to print hundreds and therefore feel very behind/ overwhelmed. I have a small child and you're so aware of this time being fleeting too, that you want to capture everything. And I start to question what the point of taking all these photos if I'm not going to print them off? Gah.

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MudandMoet · 09/11/2025 21:16

Sorry, not sure why I’ve only just seen this. It’s Photobox. I was only 6 months behind when I started so caught up quite quickly. I find it easier to (on iPhone) ‘favourite’ the photos I really like and probably want to print, that way when it comes to actually sending an order in it’s a lot faster to find the ones I want.

ToysRus56 · 10/11/2025 18:58

@MudandMoet thank you!!

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