Does anyone else never buy school photos?

[nappyaddict]

Even if they are good. When I told my friend they looked at me like this

They aren't even that expensive - £18 for two 10 x 7, two 5 x 7 and four 5 x 3.5 prints or £12 for one 10 x 7 print.

I'm just not a fan of photos in front of a white background. I prefer them to be in a real setting, whether that be the house, the garden, the park etc.

DS2 had his taken last week. he says they made him stand in an 'odd pose'. Can't wait.

I don't normally, but I'm going to this time because it's actually a really good photo, which seems to have captured ds' personality for a change. I also don't usually bother because if I was to have a professional photo done of him, I'd want him to be wearing nice clothes, not is school sweatshirt. I think the school should give the option for children to wear their own clothes for individual pictures.

Only buy it if YOU like it. I'm not getting this years...not good bless 'em!

In four years I have only bought one group one, even though I can afford it. They are too expensive and as someone else said, they make my lovely dd look terrible!

I will buy DDs first and last class group.photo.and that is it!

Not that my grandparents will forgive me!

I never buy them. They always have a hideous background, a dodgy choice of 1980's Vanilla-Ice poses and eventually end up in a box somewhere in my house, never to be seen again.

I don't. I get The Rage every year when I see a beautifully posed photo of DS2 and 3...with DS1 missing because he was excluded by the naice little village school who didn't want to have nasty autistic children messing up their assemblies and spoiling their privately tutored SATs results.
DS1's photo is from a completely different (mainstream) school twenty miles across town, where he is accepted and included despite his disability, but I'm still sore and bitter that he can't be educated with his brothers, and his community
The fact that one uniform is red, and the other bright green, only emphasises the differences more.

Amistill

Good point I was actually thinking £12 and £18 was reasonable, but I have just remembered I got some pictures taken of my best friend's daughter for Mother's Day from Max Spielman for £5.99!

Sparklingbrook Do you just not have professionally taken pictures up, or no family snapshots either? What about pictures of nieces/nephews/god children etc?

No, I never buy them. Mainly because school photos are usually the ones the news shows when a child has gone missing or worse. That's now what I associate them with.

The second reason is that they are often terrible photos!

I buy every single one because my mum never did!

I always always buy them, they always seem decent enough to me! I love comparing how much they've grown year on year. I love them and couldn't imagine not buying them.

I only buy them if I think they give a good likeness (and a reasonably flattering one) of the DCs! There are gaps in the collection for the very reason that one or both DCs were gurning at the camera....not something they will want to be reminded of as cool teens and young adults!

DS's secondary school seems to do alternative year photos which is often enough really.... and I think, as the primary schools get larger and larger, it's the way to go for the primary ones too!

The deadline for ordering DS1's is this friday, I dont want to buy it really, plus I can't really afford it tbh. But... I feel increasingly terrible about it as each day passes!

We had DS1 on his own and took DT's but they wouldnt sit still so the ones of all of them are crap, the one of DS1 is beautiful though

I.WILL.NOT.CAVE. hopefully

Nearly always

except I have a beautiful dd (don't we all ha ha) who has a striking feature

for her first school photo I spent ages getting her ready, put her in a beautiful dress, lovely shoes the works

and for some reason they did them outside and someone stuck her in a grotty old mac I got for 99p from e bay and a woolly hat they had pulled right over her face

it really didn't even look like her and it wasn't even that cold!! (nor will she wear a hat for me)

so no to that one, class photo only

My SIL never buys them and has no pictures around the house I have very clear memories of seeing family school photos all over grandparents ours and other rellies' houses

I buy them and give them to grandparents and keep one for us. They always like them and it makes a good part of a present.

We will be getting our first school photos this year :D I would love to have them (because we have years of my dodgy school photos in my parents photo albums), but all my photo albums are now digital ones. If they sold me the digital image (wouldn't even have to be a high res file) for not very much, I'd love to get them. But paper copies? What would I do with them? They aren't photos I would put around the house.

Allyfe we can buy them on disc at our school

This time out we got the regular school photos, and some extra ones from another company with a massive great OWL on their shoulder. For £8. I ordered those ;-)

I always buy mine. I find it odd that some people don't have any photos up in the house???

But I know what my DC look like-I see them every day toms-why do I need a photo of them up?

Have only ever bought the ones of my three when they were in reception. Have them on display. Is great to remind myself (and them) how cute they used to be. They are now 18, 15 & 13

I bought them all, 3 grown up DCs . I am so glad I did, came across them all recently and loved looking at them again. I have mine from school and DH's too.

I love looking back at how much mine have grown and changed.....and how cute they were in reception! there is always the most recent one on the fireplace. and as others have said, they make fab xmas presents for the grandparents :)