How many photos do you print a month

[Abbie24]

I have thousands of photos of my kids. I would love to print them all out. So I have a copy to look through in an album. But if I do that I would have boxes everywhere. I thought about printing only the best but then feel guilty by choosing. Exspecially the first baby year. I brought a baby album of baby's first year that holds 200 photos is that enough photos for one year as I have over 1000 on my phone. Please some advice. How do u chose x

I have an app called free prints where I get a certain number of free prints a month (I think it's about 45). It's not really free because the cost of postage goes up incrementally, but it's cheap enough.

I print off about 30-40 a month most months and put them in an album. The rest live in my Google drive.

My DH has a subscription where I get 100 prints a month. They are delivered within a few days, it's brilliant, I must admit though I do have months where I go over and I already have 4 albums of our son, and lots printed and just in the covers, with them all backed up on a hard drive and 1500 still on my phone that although are printed and electronically backed up, I just can't seem to dwindle them down. Don't even start me on videos (backed up on a hard drive and DVD).

So in short, I have no idea how to choose, so I don't, I print them all 😳😳😳 but I will watch this thread hoping for some great advice.

I print 30-40 a year and use an app like @Divgirl2 uses.

Watching with interest!!! Love the idea of photo albums but concerned about storage

A photo book would take up less space and contain more photos. Not that I’m organised to do one my self.

I do a printed photo book about once a year. Takes ages; but you can add text and context. Its interesting to look back on.

I print 40 a month from FreePrints but I also print more.

If you think 200 is enough then it’s enough. It’s nobody’s business.

It's funny how many pics we take these days.

I found the photo albums of my teenagers the other day there's problems 150-200 photos of all 3 of them. Compare that too my 4&2 year old theres about 2000 😬

We just get our phones out now and snap away. I didn't have a digital camera when the oldest ones were little I used to use those throw away cameras and only really got them for special occasions.

I feel guilty about the fact I don't have as many pics of them growing up. But today it's just the norm now to take photos at everything.

I print off about 100 a year. I use FreePrints too. The photos are in boxes in my room. In the cupboard in the kitchen. In the draw in the dinning room. It's pretty pointless really because I never look at them because there still on my bloody phone lol.

I have gone through my photos trying to narrow them down. But it's really hard. Only whilst going through them I realised how many beautiful photos I have taken and how little I am in them with my kids. There must be in at least 20 of me and her together in her first year. It now saddens me I wasn't in more. I only have 7 of the two of us in her first month and only about 2 every month after if that. Do other mums feel the same. But I think I need to be realistic on the photos I print as maybe I don't need 10 of her eating in her hight chair or 10 of her in her walker. I just need to chose the best of the best to look back on in an album. As going through my phone there's to many to look through. Plus I think I'm going to print more regularly.

@Abbie24 As a couple of PP's have said, photo books are the way forward! I use Photobox and they do loads of deals, so the books aren't too expensive if you get a deal. It does take time to upload the photos and lay them out, but you can have hundreds of page layouts. So as you say, if you've got 5 pics of DC eating, you can arrange a quirky page of 5 images with funny faces etc. When I first did the books I just put one or two pics large on the page, but it looks really nice if you mix it up with some special images having a whole page each and then other pages of 9 images of a day to the zoo for example. I only print individual photos to go in frames. One A4 landscape photo book a year doesn't take up too much room.

And yes, mums are never in enough photos. I'm more conscious of it now, so do try harder!

We do an annual photo book at Christmas. We give copies as gifts to grandparents/godparents etc as well. They are lovely to look back on.

Since 1980 I've made a photo album. I've just recently stopped, but my DC complained, so I'm trying to do 1 a year, with just the best photos of the year. It takes ages though with snapfish. They are lovely to look back at, and are very slim to keep. I also made a book for my DS 21st, my DD wants one too. Once a year or so, I print actual photos and put them all in a huge frame. It's nice to look at.

I use Snapfish - 50 free prints a month and about £2.99 postage.
We make a point of getting some every few months (and do limit it to the 50) and pop them in an album. When my grandparents died, my uncle and I went through a massive box of photos going back over 80 years. It was a lovely way to waste a weekend. We digitalised the important ones and I vowed to make sure I get prints of the digital ones. How often do you see pleas on social media for lost phones with precious photos that aren't printed/backed up anywhere?

We do puotobooks for specific events (wedding, birthday party etc) otherwise pop prints into an album.

How many photos would you say you were in your baby's first year as I look so absent in mine. As I'm sorting through the photos there is so many of my kids together and my husband but very little of me.

How many photos would you say you were in your baby's first year as I look so absent in mine. As I'm sorting through the photos there is so many of my kids together and my husband but very little of me

We're 6 months in. We have successfully managed about 2 of all 3 of us, my husband is in quite a few (because I take them!). Just flicking through the album as it's next to me, there are 5 of me with him (one is our NCT group mums and babies) and 6 of my husband. Ones of me are the day he was born, NCT group, on a walk in a sling and swimming on holiday. There's 1 in the album of all 3 of us

I hardly ever print ours out. I just store them all on our computers and backed up on google drive.

What I have been doing though with DS2 is doing updates at every milestone age which become further apart the older he gets. So at first it was day 1, 2, 3 etc until a week, then one week, two weeks until six weeks. Then I just did two months, three months etc. I will continue to do monthly until a year and then I'll do either 3-monthly or 6-monthly until 2 or 3 and then it will be yearly. With each update I write a bit about what new things he is doing and what his personality is like, favourite activity, dislikes, etc. So eventually I will go through and put these updates plus selected highlights of photos from that period into a photo book with one or two pages per milestone, so I would guess about 4-5 photos per page.

I like this idea so much I'm going to go back and do it for DS1, using old notes and clues from pictures etc to try and write a little bit about each age. Then once DC are out of the baby/toddler years I might just do a family one generally with significant events and then by year/season.

I think as my sister has just had her first baby and insists of others taking photos with them together untill they get the perfect picture I feel bad as I only had the odd photo here and there. I just got carried away taking photos of my kids that's why I have soo many to chose from, that I forgot to put myself in them. That's why I feel sad I'm only in about 20 photos a year with my kids and that's if I'm lucky.

I think I'm going to start doing photo books but one ever two years otherwise there's going to be loads around the house. And only print the ones I like the most to display in photo frames. I think photo books maybe the way to go as you can arrange the photos the way you like and I may do 1 to 2 pages a month. And I will try to get a least one of myself and my husband with the kids at least once a month to x

Most of the photos of DH and I with DS2 are selfies :o