🖼 Simplifying and Decluttering Photos 👨👩👧 (Family Minimalism 2019)
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- If you have boxes of random family photos, it can be a source of guilt! We feel bad that we're not taking better care of them, we're not honoring the people in them, and we never revisit them because it causes stress just to look at them!! Today, let's talk about how we can simplify photos so that we actually look through them and so that they are a positive thing in our life again!
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I went through 5 large boxes of photos with my mom. We made 9 albums (one for each of her kids) starting with early photos of mom and dad and then family photos as each child came along. We used an early school photo of the child on the front of their album. Then we sorted all the other photos by each kid and put them into individual zippered cases from the dollar store. Mom gave each of us an album and our case for Christmas that year. Not only did we get rid of the photos, but I heard wonderful memories from my mother. I then started talking with her 1 afternoon each week and by the next Christmas she was able to give each of us and all her grandkids a book of her life story that I helped her write. I got to know her as a strong women, not just as my mother.
Wow! This is SO cool Karla!!!
Love this idea
Awesome...I regret not doing that when my Aunt was alive she raised me and she passed away at 86. I think everyone should do what you did with your mom.
I don't know my parents or grandparents they all passed away when I was young.
Now my adult kids don't know them except through photos. Would like to pass on to my grandkids too. Great idea. Thx for sharing. God bless!
So special. My husband was able to have long talks about family history with his Mom. We're thankful because we lost her this summer to COVID. Pictures tell stories and are such a treasure.
@@spcatmom so sorry you lost your mother-in-law. May God bring comfort to you.
Conquering a backlog of family photos can take years, but it is worth the effort! They are one of the most cherished things I have seen passed on from one generation to the next. 👴👵 More than any physical item, except the family Bible.
📸 Now that we have our family photos organized (from multiple generations...it took years!!), I've learned two tricks to never let things get out of control again. First, we purpose to take fewer photos at each event and for vacations, and focus instead on being present with family. And then on the first of every month we clear off our phones and camera, transferring all the digital photos onto the computer. Everything gets organized by month and then by event, and poor quality pics get deleted. When I create an annual scrapbook at the end of the year, it goes so much more smoothy now! 🖼️
Great idea!!' Thank you!
I love this idea. I've tried doing the once a month thing in the past, but my computer is too old/running slow to hold all my photos/videos. I'm getting a new one soon and going to implement this because photos are something that's very important to me. Thanks for the tip!!
@@billy77511 Show some respect, please! Praying for you. 🙏
Long ago, someone might have had a picture of themselves as a toddler, maybe a wedding picture, and one in their older years. I actually hate that today we are drowning in pictures. The only time I look at my pics is when I want to declutter them. I'm probably an anomaly in this smart phone selfie world.
It's helpful to keep in mind that up until the last century, people just had to remember their memories without ANY photos.
Photography was invented in 1800
@@472_d3 1839. But, people would have only had major life event photos. Not a photo for everywhere they went. I struggle with this. And it wasnt really popular until kodak got into it and made it accessible to the common people. Polaroid cameras helped a lot too.
And they were incredibly precious when they did have them. They are still precious.
I think the same. My mother had so many photos but my siblings and I didn't really want many...including the ones from her Mum, my Nan's albums. I kept the best, shared and ditched the rest. I am doing my Swedish Death Cleaning: Margareta Magnusson now I have Marie Kondo's spark joy konmarie method sorted. I will keep only that which sparks joy and maybe do a forgiveness ritual when ditch the ones that bring up negative memories so my girls won't have too much to sort through when I fall off my perch.
I have had my photos in my too hard basket for decades but brought them into the lounge to go through with your statement in mind. Memories can be triggered by a scene in a movie or a person walking by...I see my Dad in many older men's faces. I have an old port that I think I will use for storing my photos...shoebox style...for the moment...maybe...we'll see...lol.
I may take two, or ten, sort throughs it is time...
Thank you so much! I didn't know how and where to start. Your idea of not putting the photos in chronological order was so good for me. It gave me a big push to start. I loved your video, thanks again.❤
Photo organizing can feel overwhelming at first. Good for you for getting started! How is it going so far?
I find that photo books are really the solution for our family to enjoy the digital mountain of photos. Each year, I pick the highlight pictures for our family and create one album as soon as there's a great coupon available. For the paper photos, I radically eliminated photos that show buildings, landscapes etc. and only kept photos that captured the spirit of the event or vacation and that had loved ones in it. If I ever feel the need to look at pictures of the Eiffel Tour or a certain beach, there are thousands available online in better quality.
Tanja Hermann this is a great point .... thank you!
My neighbor includes old photos in the birthday and holiday cards she sends to friends and family. I think it's a great idea I hope to try this year.
"Children want to be noticed and know where they fit in." This is going up in my craft room. I've been struggling with how to scrapbook my step children (we are at a hard place right now.) This gave me a lot of clarity on why/how to scrapbook our family!
That's so cool!!! Glad to hear!!♥️
Winner of a video, I have been researching "organizing the ideas" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Ponrooklyn Xeyichael Secret - (search on google )?
It is an awesome one off product for discovering how to declutter and keep your house tidy without the headache. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my brother in law got great success with it.
Yes I think this should be in print and hung
I have basically binge watched all your videos this last week. I am a SAHM. We have 7 children - his/hers/ours. Our 3 youngest have Autism. Over the last 3 years my Mother, Father and last living Grandparent all passed away. Yes, its a lot to process. But you can imagine...I inherited ALL of the furniture and photos and décor and clothing etc. etc. from my Mom and her Mom...I am the only daughter. As a result of that...along with therapy schedules and children who don't function well...I am become pretty overwhelmingly buried. My biggest obstacle was WHAT to throw out and WHAT to keep. I have the idea of "passing things down" because I am after all the last one that can. For the purpose of this video lets just cover the photos. I received thousands of family photos dating back 5 generations! Beautiful old shots of my 5th Great Grandmother in the late 1800's. I am a book lover and a lover of history. I didn't want to toss any of the photos...but I had to start somewhere. One thing I did was sort by decade. In my grandmothers generation, they always wrote on the photos, so many have dates. Next I separated the people I knew and didn't know. Then I had to look through albums to find duplicates. This process took months. I spread out on a large table and then had a cousin come over to take some and to verify certain people. Long story short, I decided to make an album/scrapbook of all the Grandmothers...including their stories (found on various other documents and journals). That way my daughters can learn where we came from through the eyes of each grandmother. The rest of the "random" photos I have sorted by shape and size...and color vs. black and white. I have tossed all blurry photos...or unattractive shots...OMG and scenary pictures! How many mountain and ocean pictures did my mother need! lol. Thank you for your cheerful spirit and your time in making such detailed organization tips. I am making my husband watch these next :)
I made photo cubes from our loose favorite photos. I sand and stain wood cubes, mod podge photos onto the cubes and display them in crystal bowls, vases, etc. Each cube holds 6 pictures. Seeing them on the coffee table makes me smile. 😊
I did the exact opposite. I took all the photo albums and took the photos out and put them in photo boxes that take up less space, protect the photos better and I have them in order. We always got doubles, so I gave the boys their childhood photos and we still have a set here.
Me too. Takes up less space!
Yes! Thank you thank you thank you for not just saying we should scan them! I also LOVE being able to physically flip through an album, and I find I do it more than looking through pictures on my computer. In terms of how to sort them, my dad ALWAYS said that nobody will care about landscape pictures, only about the people in pictures. I didn't understand that when I was younger, but now I do. It also helps keep me in check with how many pictures I actually even take to begin with. If someone isn't in the shot, I try not to take it. I think being conscious of how many pictures we're taking AS we take them is incredibly important in managing the inventory later. It's the same concept of only bringing really quality items into your house, but we don't apply it to taking pictures for some reason.
We got a really big album of every single wedding picture made because I didn't pay all that money to have the pictures sit on a computer! I have looked at it with friends and family members so many times, and it was 100% worth the time and cost. I'm super curious to hear your take on digital pictures because that's where I'm overwhelmed. I would love to make them into albums, but I struggle with actually doing that.
My mom past away 5 yearss ago and I'm still putting off going through her photos. My parents traveled and after my dad passed she continued to travel with groups. The pictures are numerous. Not to mention family pics. My criteria for what I keep in this ...... if the picture makes me smile, I keep it. I've started going through one album a week because trying to do it all at once was to emotional. I hope to be through them all by the fall. 😘
Love this approach Patty!! ♥️😘
Yes, my husband doesn't understand but when his parents pass, I hope he will have an epiphany.
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My mom also passed 5 years ago. My dad passed only 2 months ago. Like you, the number of photos is overwhelming, but I love your approach of one album each week! Thank you so much!!
@@kjohnsonshelton0923 The hardest part is just getting started. Once you get over that hump it starts to get a bit easier.
@@pattyatrumdycreations134 thank you for the encouragement ❤️
Scanning is overwhelming to me also. Chronological order was important to me so I took 3 months to go through every photo and discard and organize. It was a bit painful but oh so very rewarding and worth every minute of it! We do enjoy going through them as a family 😊
That's awesome, way to go!! ♥️
When we were selling our family home to downsize to a very small house, I was motivated to declutter the photos. I made an individual album for each child, my husband and myself. Then another one for special occasions ( holidays, vacations, graduations) and then one for just everyday life, so 7 in total.
I kept the photos to 200 per individual in their personal album. EVERYTHING else was divided up and given to the grandparents and our grown children. What was crucial to this step was knowing that I only have about 20 photos from my own childhood, but it’s enough. So I was confident that 200 would be plenty. 😂
This is one of the best minimalistic photo storage & sharing methods I have learned about. I personally will need a backup storage of all family photos, but I love this idea of curating up to 200 photos for each child, plus another album for holidays, etc. The curated photo albums can easily be shared on Google / Amazon photos.
@@Jerry_McKimm
Thank you! I hope it works out as well for you as it did for us.
Unfortunately, my folks had been putting off going through loads of photos for years. It wasn't until near my Father's death that we took the time to sort through them. We threw out so many that never needed to be saved in the first place! When it came time to choose photos of my father for the funeral home presentation , it became an easier task to search through it all.
Additionally, it opened my eyes up to the fact that I avoided being in pictures for years. I was fat and hated how I looked. So I was either out of the shot or I was the photographer. It was surprising to me. Now still fat and in my 50's I will make a point not to avoid the camera any longer.
Bless your heart Lori, I always felt that way, untill someone said to me, how will anyone remember you?
Dealing with all the photos, including slides, that my parents have is my main goal for this year and it is crazy overwhelming. I really need to remember that not all are worth keeping and archiving. Thanks.
I watch your videos with my 6 year old and whenever you say a thumbs up is the best compliment, she actually gives you a physical thumbs up while smiling at the screen. It's the best! So know there is always another thumbs up added to your total, probably the best one of all... 😊
Looooove this Becca!!! Thank you!! 😘♥️
I’ve been scrapbooking for 15 years and it has completely changed through the years from my dating early 20’s to my married with kids life! I love it.
I’m currently in the “ everything shoved in bins in a closet/under the bed” stage
Pictures are the one area I haven’t had the mindset to deal with, but I can now thanks to you!
I was so stressed with the idea of having to scan everything in and/or put everything in chronological order that I didn’t want to tackle it
I love looking through photos and have fond memories of doing so with my grandparents... thank you for motivating me to start!
Thank you! I’ve been so overwhelmed with all the photos. I’m an only child and I’ve inherited both sides of my grandparents photos, my parents and my husbands family photos. I’m pretty sure my kids don’t want to be left with thousands of photos in boxes. I also stress out thinking about trying to get them in chronological order, so I like the idea of not worrying about that because it seems like an impossible task.
I did a major organizing of our photos in the Winter. I pulled all the photographs out of their bulky padded albums, which I gave away. I purged as I went; getting rid of all duplicates, poor quality, unflattering, and forgotten/incomprehensible photographs. All the photographs were stacked in order, and set into storage boxes which my husband took to work. There he scanned them onto a cd at high speed with the photocopier. We made copies of these discs for each of our four adult kids and put them with our Will. Then for good measure I took down the shelf that had held those forty years of photo albums. Done.
Wow Angela, that's awesome! Way to go!!
Excellent!
I am impressed. Wow. That was a lot of effort but so satisfying!
Hallo, I do the same ! :)) Lg Angela
I think an important point is to just make an appointment with yourself to keep working on it. Whether it’s 15 min. Or a day.
Yes! That's a great point!!! 👍♥️
I want to be able to grab the photo albums & run if I have to. So, I'm taking every one out of the frames and getting them ready for when I have the right kind of albums. A nice seated organizing project.
It's a great feeling when you know your photos are safe in case of a disaster. Have you considered scanning them?
@@thephotomanagers What does scanning your photos do?
@@rowan0331 create a digital backup copy so you can share your photos
I just got tired of photos taking up head space so I shredded 90% of my photos and all negatives plus the cd's that came with developing the pictures. 😲 I don't regret shredding most of it. Now I have a very small container of SD cards of pics, it's never ending lol
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Wow! That's quite the declutter!!! 👍
You know how some people feel the need to leave a legacy, I feel that this life is not about me and it's solely about Jesus (God). However I did keep a handful of pictures of my family. God bless you and your family....💜
@@tignim231 Agreed! 🙌🏻 ✝️
Good idea looking back good memories with family yes is it's true
I like digital photo frames. With just (one or two) special photos. Kids, weddings, family pet, brother, sister, parents, grandparents. That's it.
I hate throwing out pics but love taking a bunch of my family. So I started making collage books of them. I take all the pics from the year and print them out in different sizes, and make pages for the album that are completely covered in pictures. It's a mix of scrapbooking, crafting, puzzles and photos which makes it fun for me to assemble. My family loves looking thru them and it seems like you find a new picture everytime you go thru them.
I love those kinds of photo albums too. I have scanned 3 generations of our family photo's but that was before I had my daughter. Now the pressure is on because my daughter wants photo albums for her from since she was born which is all digital. Nine years of photo's and photography use to be my hobby. I gives anxiety when ever I think about were too start oh my ...lol....
Thank you so much for this video! I have on my list to tackle our photos this week...to get them into something manageable and that we can look at often. I have put it off because I want the albums I create to be perfect and organized by exact date of the event. But my son brought home his binder yesterday from preschool and has not stopped talking about how much he loves to look at his photos and projects. That binder is not perfect or in order but it is his work and he just loves it. It was a great reminder that he doesn't want perfection and I dont have to try so hard to give him the perfect photo album. Thank you for the affirmation that we are enough for our families without having to be perfect. ❤
I have to get past that notion that it has to be organized into years or holidays or events. I've been telling myself for years that I will get to it... first the physical photos, then making photobooks from digital ones (looking forward to next week's video!). Time to finally just tackle it.
Thank you for doing a video on this. Scrapbooking and photos occupy almost a full closet and I struggle with them so much
Looking forward to your digital one too!
Some time back I started looking through all my loose pictures and dividing them between my three older kids so they would have some pictures of them with family. Then I put them in albums for them to have. (It was because I was not getting any younger and they needed to go...)
On my oldest daughter 40th Birthday 🎂 I had hers fixed and gave it to her ... she was so excited! I then brought out the two boys albums for them!
So they they all looked at each other’s and laughed ... remember this or this ... it was just a blessing to hear and see. (I was witnessing how it would have be if I had passed and they where looking at single pictures and deciding which one got what picture!)
I still have their 8x10 pictures in an album with me. Just could not let them go! I sit down and go through them every now and then!🌹
Many years ago I spent several weeks with my grandmothers going through their photos, dividing them up, making albums of each of their kids and extra albums of extended family and friends. My grandmothers were able to identify many people and appreiated my time and efforts.
I sorted pics into events and holidays and then went through each pile. Example: Christmases. I did each year looking for duplicates and I got rid of dups and then bad or very similar pics. I did this for all holidays and then events like birthdays, camping and the like. It worked great cuz I first separated and then put each event in a big envelope and labeled it. Then I was able to sort them one event at a time without any mess. So much easier.
I started scrapbooking when I was 11 and it was my hobby for years. I stopped about 5 years ago bc we moved into an apartment and I lost my craft room so it was inconvenient to search for every tool, embellishment, or paper I needed and eventually everything was packed up in storage. Now I have a craft room again but I started minimizing about 3 years ago and now I don't want scrapbooks lol. I dont want an entire book for 1 event. I have so many already. Although I do have one 12X12 for my high school years. I did a 1 or 2 page spread for special occasions and I get alot of enjoyment from that one. But I have scrapbooks for anything and everything that I don't find enjoyment in. Now I'd rather frame 1 or 2 nice photos from an event or occasion and put them on the wall and make a nice statement wall with family photos so they can be seen and enjoyed all the time. But I feel bad getting rid of the old scrapbooks I already have even though I don't want them lol
Same here…..i am deconstructing my albums, cutting off those edges and putting the pages i want to keep in a 3 ring binder 12 x12 page protector. I am drowning in Scrapbook pages about the mundane.
I made albums for each of my kids several years ago so they can see their childhood and then I inherited my grandparents albums, so I intend to go through them and create new albums of just the important pictures so I am not carrying around 10 messy albums that can’t even be opened without stuff falling out. Once again you have inspired me.
It never occurred to me that I could put photos in an album out of order! That tip made me stop and realize I can theme it any way I need ("kids before age 8") and just put them in! Soooo much better than having them uselessly hidden in a box!
I love this video. We started to upload on photos to familysearch.org so we could type our memories with each photo. Then all our family could see the images and they were safe too. It is what works for us.
Ah, I hadn't heard of that, that's really cool!! ♥️
M Torres are you doing all your memories or just “family history” ones?
I have been making such amazing progress in decluttering my home, but those boxes...& boxes...& boxes....of pics in my storage closet are mocking me....
Cindie, I have 5 plastic shoe boxes of photos to organize. I stopped on my decluttering process with this part. I will pick back up after back to school. I see the boxes everyday. But it will be completed soon. You got this!
Christine Kennedy Thanks for the encouragement!😊
I wish I could come and help Cindie!!!! ♥️😉
@@TheMinimalMom Rest assured, you ARE helping. Cleaned all 3 bathrooms last night & realized I have EMPTY drawers in every bathroom because of YOU!
Help! Minimal Mom Dawn, I cleaned out a cabinet with 9 bins of clutter. I put them in categories but the amount of stuff in the categories is huge! I am asking myself questions to minimize but I'm stuck. I think I need everything on the boxes.
Your videos have helped me when minimizing the items in my home. Your phrase of "managing items" definitely keeps things in perspective for me when decluttering ❤
I have watched this three times during the process of cleaning up old photos...I had soooooo many and it was overwhelming. This helped to give me permission to keep one or two photos from events rather than all 24 x 2 photos.
I think albums are definitely the way to make photos safe and accessible; my family has quite a few because I used to put everything in chronological order (this was WAY back...in my younger days). One thing I would love to mention about yours...PLEASE GET YOUR PHOTOS OUT OF THE "MAGNETIC SHEET" ALBUM IF YOU WANT TO PRESERVE THEM. Those albums are NOT acid free (can you see the bit of yellowing around the edges of the pages) and that acid will destroy your photos (they will crumble into bits!). Almost all albums use photo safe paper these days, but those old ones didn't. :)
I love your pragmatical approach to this overwhelming task. I'm slowly learning to accept that 'done is better than perfect'. Your videos help a lot! Thank you!
Me too!! I used to edit my digital photos before making them into albums and I got nowhere. Now I’m just leaving them unedited and creating the albums. I feel that if any photos are so special when then I can go back and edit them individually to print out for display but having a physical album of slightly imperfect images is better than them all just sitting on my pc waiting for me to edit them 😁
SO many practical ideas! She spoke straight to my heart and need for decluttering and organization at this point in my life. Thank you Dawn!
Wow! I currently have quite a few boxes stuffed full of tons of photos that I have been too overwhelmed to deal with for several years now. Needless to say, I really needed these tips. Everyone else I've heard always talks about scanning them all and I find that way too daunting to fool with. I appreciate how you always keep things so simple and practical! Thank you girl! God bless you ❤
I am glad to know I am not the only person with boxes of old photos in my house 😁Good advice!
Thanks Dawn! We’ve gone to making/ printing photo books but I do have one box of old photos that I would like to get albums.
Thanks so much for all your encouragement! I am on my 4th pass through my home and making another pile to give for an upcoming garage sale. I can’t believe all the things I missed the first 3 times! We have 5 kids and it gives me so much peace to see all these items leaving my home!
I loved these tips. So nice to see someone who likes albums instead of digitizing. The handwritten note next to the photo idea is one I’m going to do!
Scanning photos or having a physical album is NOT an either/or concept. I love my photo albums and the scrapbooks I've made, but I've also taken the time to scan. If there's ever a fire or other event that can ruin my photos, I still have access to them because of the scans. The other bonus of having scanned the pictures is that I can create meaningful cards with the pictures for my friends and family. Everyone anticipates the personalized cards I send.
After bringing home all my Mothers pictures, I felt totally overwhelmed!!! So, I took ALL of my pictures, grandparents, my childhood, my family, etc., and went in my spare room. In increments of time, I separated into piles on the floor all of the photos starting with my grandparents, and coming to the present, the pictures into decades. I got picture boxes from Hobby Lobby and started with the first decade pile. I tackled one decade at a time into order and put them, labeled by decade, into the picture boxes. This took a few weeks, but I didn't pressure myself for time. It's finished now and I am happy with my solution. I hope maybe this idea can help someone with this emotional and time consuming job!! 😊❤️💕
So wonderfully timely for me! I gathered and saved my grandmother's albums when she moved from her home to assisted living. I need to go through them and make it a manageable amount. Now I have some tools to make that task seem possible. And then I can tackle my own hoard of photos next!
My husband made a collage slideshow for our Amazon Fire screen saver on our TV. My girls love seeing their pictures and other family members pop up on the screen.
Yes I love this. I have something similar for my computer screen saver. But I need to limit it to favourite specials photos. At the moment I have random things like pics of things I've sold or things my hubby took a photo of for work puts all the blurry pics or ones that didn't work out.
Thank you so much! Very timely! I appreciated too that the albums don't need to be perfect. We can all be hard on ourselves, can't we?! I've wrestled with how to begin - I literally do not have one album created, but LOTS of boxes of photos. I've recently decided on a way to do it, and wondered if others have done it this way, or may like the idea.
I am going to buy acid/lignin free oaktag and acid free protective sleeves for a 3 ring binder, put photos on the paper and insert two pages back-to-back into the protective sleeve, then put them into the 3 ring binder in chronological order. When I find random photos, since its a 3 ring binder, I can insert a page where it belongs. And, I can write on the oaktag. I think this will be the least expensive route for me to go knowing I have so many to do.
I searched for bigger protective sleeves and albums - besides 8.5 x 11" but the price was so much more that I'm sticking to normal paper size and albums.
Wondered for a long time about "how many" albums to make (as in: 1 for each child, etc?) - decided to make ONE set of albums, and then I plan to take them to a copy center to make a hard copy for each child as well as a digital copies for them and one on a flash drive to keep in a safe place.
Thought I'd share in case others are at this wondering/beginning stage as well. It helped with not having to have everything perfectly in order, since I can insert later if I come across things - and can just get started.
This is a wonderful idea! I like with the binders you can rearrange the order like you said!
@@TheMinimalMom Thank you so much, I am hoping the plan works as well as it does in my imagination!! I get lots of ideas! :) I truly enjoy how you share about your journey with minimalism with your family - it has been very helpful, and also your Sunday messages with your sister. You've done a great job with your site, and have been such a blessing, thank you.
Also, I sent an email recently to your Ithinkwecouldbefriends, and I'm sure that you get overwhelmed with so many messages from people, but wanted to share that I had also written there.
Thank you again for all you share - and how you share! Blessings to you!
It took days but I went through all of our photos. I purged and focussed on people rather than places. Now the books are in order and fun to flip through. Thanks for sharing your method.
I have watched this probably 5 times in the past day. So much resonated with me….especially that kids/people want to be noticed and a part of a group. That statement alone has hit the nail on the head from my life of feeling unnoticed and not part of a group.
After 48 hours of impleminting some of your tips, i am still drowning in photos and still have 27 scrapbooks that are now bringing me more misery than joy. I have discarded well over 1000 pics and have more to go through.
Thank you for lighting a fire under me.
Thank you for watching!!! I know it's not "one size fits all" when it comes to topics like photos and other sentimental items but I hope this helps!! PLEASE share your best tips for simplifying family photos below (you have such GREAT ideas!!) or other roadblocks you're running into with them! Oh! And PHOTO ALBUM (holds 300 photos with room to write next to the phots): amzn.to/2IDLN8f or a set of 4 ALBUMS for an even better deal amzn.to/31tCMY4 😘 Dawn
I have stacks of photos just waiting for a video and here it is! Thank you Dawn.
Thanks so much for tackling this subject Dawn!! It is a HUGE help! I will be returning to this video to help me reset my mind while I sort through ALL THE PICTURES!! 😅
You have a video about scaling down sentimental items... could someone here direct me to it, please?
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Love your channel. I scrapbook for my kids and because it's a creative outlet for me and it makes me so happy to see them look through them. I am so glad you mentioned digital ones not being enjoyed bc when people dont ever print pictures it's unlikely the future generations will actually see them! I recently decluttered childhood photos of my husband and me and realized we didn't need everything. We took time to mail some to family members and friends which made us happy :) I'm recovering from surgery now and so happy to have gotten in that one big project beforehand!! Keep up the good work!! P.s. love your hair!!
The whole point of simplifying our house, is so we can highlight the things we enjoy and we like and we appreciate.
I had to type this to remind me of the purpose. Well it is one of many reasons, but this one motivates me the most.
This video helped me get going on organizing and minimalizing my photos! I bought the albums you linked on amazon and I love them!
Your grocery and meal planning videos also have changed my life! So simple to have my grocery and meal list on one piece of paper! Thank you!!!!!!
Wow..This is timely...I've been decluttering every room and cupboard except the drawers with the photos. I will start putting them in albums because I definitely like photo albums better than digital photos. So thank you so much for the inspiration!!!
Oh my goodness 😌 thank you so much for the tips. So needed this. A big load off my shoulders. 😊
This is my project right now (well last 3 years it has been an on/off project!) I am not brutal with photos I keep no blurred no duplicate and agree with backgrounds they tell a story.
I only use albums for my children’s 1st photos, big holidays abroad then the rest are in photo boxes where they hold 6x 100 each so it helps me keep my limit to 600 a year! Still a lot but my family is extending & I don’t like just keeping them digitally…I want to touch & see them😁
Thanks! I started going through my photos late last month with the goal of getting them all cataloged this year (I started throwing pictures in boxes in 1994!) I have seen several videos on how best to do it, but I like yours the best because you like albums and your suggestions were practical, especially copying just the *special* photos to digital as backup.
You nailed it, Dawn, when you said that one of the problems is that we'd get duplicates of our pictures and we would often take multiple pictures to make sure at least one was good. Because of those two things, I have way too many pictures!!
THANK YOU for mentioning not keeping ALL photos! I throw out photos because there are tooooo many and also, as you said, not all are needed to tell a story! Knowing that someone else says this makes me feel better about tossing photos.
Thank you for your advice! I went through boxes and boxes of pictures at my moms house last year and got rid of over half. It was actually a lot of fun reminiscing and now we can actually find them. 😀
How funny! I'm binge watching your channel to catch up on the last few videos I haven't seen before I'm all up to speed. This video popped up as I'm going through two full photo boxes of my own from childhood! Luckily I grouped the photos into years at one point, and now I just mindlessly getting rid of doubles... but I'm ready to let go of the mediocre pictures and just keep the photos that tell the stories best, and get them into books where they can actually be enjoyed! What's even more daunting though are the boxes of my husband's family photos... Slowly but surely I'm getting more organized. I won't let another 15 years of marriage pass before we can start enjoying our memories! Thank you for all your valuable advice! It really has been so helpful and relatable!
Thank you for this video. I have got several big boxes of photos I've been meaning to get round to sorting (I've been feeling the guilt and the load of this inventory for years now) but have been feeling overwhelmed by it. You are SO RIGHT: it doesn't have to be perfect! This is what I need to remember. Looking forward to next week's video too.
You are a life saver, Dawn! ❤️. Because of this video I had the skilled mindset to conquer my Leviathon of 120 years of family photos and film and paper “keepsakes”. The closet no longer makes me cringe in my gut when I open it. The burden is gone! You are Proberbs 11:25 - thank you for sharing with us what you’ve learned. Blessings!
So timely! I was just doing this yesterday. I sorted the keepers to put in photo albums and tossed the duplicates and bad ones. It's a slow process if you have 10 photo boxes to sort through but worth it. Love your videos!
Thank you Dawn for the reminder! I have gone through physical photos but have over 7,000 in my iPhoto library....... I have been dreaming of making some albums because the children love to see our wedding album and I'm sure they'd love to see more of themselves too. I needed the reminder and encouragement. The Lord is using you in ways you can't imagine ;) Keep it up my sister!
I have a whole tub and albums upon albums of photos to go through. Thanks for the great tips!!
So I have an idea for the extra photos.... I don't know about you but with my family every time they flip thru an albumn someone will always end up saying something along the lines of wanting a copy etc...but some of those family members are not always reliable for returns or one photo turns into twenty that they want to copy... so what I do is put a few extras of the same photo behind the photo in the albumn. It is not the best way because your still keeping them (however all in ome place and not in a separate box) but it never fails that someone always mentions wanting a copy of certain photos. I also love throwing photos in with bday cards,etc so it keeps me from driven an extra trip to the walmart photo centre!
Myheart2yours I do this too!
Being retired, I look for easy gifts, I put in a picture of their childhood in their birthday card for my kids
@@barbfrank917 perfect!
I actually just had to go through my photos to make a video for my daughter's wedding and wished I had them organized already because it took so long. Since I had to get them all out, I researched ways to organize while I was dealing with them and I cannot remember where I saw this, but they have these plastic containers where you can put pictures in smaller plastic containers (clear) and it is like a suitcase, but the little individual containers fit inside the suitcase so you can separate by category, etc. I found one at Hobby Lobby. That is a good alternative instead of the boxes you cannot see through and to keep in one place, but after trying to utilize that, I am with you in thinking the albums are the way to go so we can all enjoy. I too remember going to my grandmas when I was younger and I would ask her to pull out the pictures and she loved showing me and sharing, so I know my family would love that. I am glad you said do not try to put them in an order because that is overwhelming because that is exactly why I kept putting it off - thinking of how big of a task that is....this is motivating to get it going!! Thank you!!
Thank you. Yes, we have photos here that need attention. For our daughter’s 50th Birthday I put together an album of photos from her baby days until now. She loved it. She said, “Thank you for my gifts, especially the photo album.”
I’m very fortunate that my mom likes to scrapbook, but my husband and I have a huge bin full of his and his siblings’ childhood photos. Thanks again for the great tips, it’ll make helping him pare down so much easier! We plan to scan the best ones and give memory cards to everyone in the family.
I make photo collages to hang on the wall. It serves as art while cherishing pictures.
Scrapbooking is my passion so photos bring me the ultimate joy, but because of that I also take a lot of photos. I can understand how it can easily get overwhelming. One way that people can sort photos without doing so chronologically is using Stacy Julian’s Library of Memories system which basically just sorts them into four categories - Things We Do, Places We Go, People We Love & All About Us it works for photos in albums or just stored in boxes. Scrapbookers will have lots of ideas on photo management so they’re a great source of help and knowledge if anyone needs assistance with their photos and best thing is they’ll actually enjoy helping out in this area.
I can't believe I did SAME THING with our photos! Just a few of every event! Not cronologicly, not perfect ones, just a few that show event and atmospfere....
Only diferent, I make digital photos to paper ones because I NEVER look trough those digital, but LOVE ph.albums! Thanks for sharing!💜
That's so awesome!!
We love looking at photo albums! Need to get my photos organized into albums too!
Oh boy, I’m going through my digital ones on my computer and trying to pare those down! I have thousands. I love this video! I can’t bring myself to throw away the old negatives!
I have do many photos, so overwhelming. they are in boxes they are in the containers that they came in from the store so so many all over the place. A few are in albums but way too many still in the bags when I pick them up from the store. I have been putting this off for years! Still working on clearing the clutter and getting rid of things, but I am going to take care of these photos as soon as I pair down. Thank you for this video. I did get into scrapbooking, a ways back when my son was little. That became overwhelming to, because you wanted to make the perfect page and I had so many pictures that I wanted all of them there. It was just crazy, so now I have some books that are scrapbooking some half-done just crazy. I just need something simple get the pictures in label be done. Thanks again have a great day.
A very helpful video! What motivated me to sort through old photos and put them into albums is when you said they do not have to be in chronological order. As I began to place pics in my album, I just started to gain a better understanding of where to place them. They are not in order, and that is okay, in fact it makes it a far better adventure when leafing through. I agree, too, that leafing through a physical photo album is nicer than just digital pics. My happiness level went way up after completing my first album and seeing lots of happy moments with family and friends. Thank you!!!
I like real photos best ! more fun flipping through an album then clicking through it
Me too!
We also get photo books done through Snapfish. We are much more likely to flick through a book than a folder on the PC.
E photo frames are great but they never last more than a year or two.
You gave me permission 😁😊 to use a regular album. 👍 I used to scrapbook back when it was so popular. What a daunting task! I started to smashbook and that was fun. Now I just need to get the rest in an album and be done.
We scan our favorite photos of the year to Shutterfly and make a book. The size is perfect and take up way less space than photo albums. When sorting boxes of old photos make piles of people or places. In group photos put them in the oldest person's pile or just distribute to whoever needs more pics in their pile. Hope this is useful.
Yes, love this!! ♥️
I spent hours and hours scanning ALL our pictures (we have 6 kids) a few summers ago and it was a HUGE project but I am glad I did it. I also keep a few photo albums, like the one you mentioned that came from Walmart, where I keep favorite random pictures of the family and I can write a little snippet next to it. It’s not in any particular order but that is what makes it fun to look through!! Thanks for another great video! You’re awesome!
Wow, way to go Loretta!!! ♥️👍
Honestly, the only photos I kept printed were the ones from my younger childhood from birth to around age 12. After that, I was in charge of taking pictures digitally and storing them on an external hard drive so there was no need for printing them out. When I was decluttering I saw that I have thousands of pictures from over the years of people that made me upset, sad, or angry. I ended up ripping up all the scrapbooks and albums that I had made in my youth and tossed many away in the bin. I am happier now that I only kept the ones that were rare and special. Now my mom... that's another story. I will be going through her loose pictures she has giant bins of them in her house. I know I am going to be the one who has to sort and place in albums and I am excited about it. :3
Green Serene thanks for your comments as this helps me realize what I’m keeping may not be what my child enjoys. I do have a daughter who does have a lot of bad memories from childhood so I may ask her to go through photos and see what makes her happy to keep. Then put those in an album for her.
LOVE THIS!! Thank you so much for explaining this for me. I have boxes of photos that I put off going through because it's so overwhelming but no one is looking at them because they are in a closet.
I love the idea you gave about not laboring over putting pics in the perfect order...never thought of that!! That is AWESOME!! What a great way to provide an exciting photo album and challenge how we organize our memories!!!!😀
The tip on not putting your photos in chronological order is golden! When I first learned I don't have to have my photos in order, it was so freeing & so much easier to organize photos. The system I used, grouped photos into 4 categories (& I created sub-categories from there): 1. Us (our immediate family - hubby, kids & g-kids), 2. People (extended family & friends, or others), 3. Places (travel photos or where location is the main focus of the photo) & 4. Things (food, the new car, ... ). I still try to organize in order as much as possible, but no longer view it as a requirement of getting photos put into albums so we can actually enjoy looking at them & reminiscing with loved ones. Blessings!
My mom and my grandma did the album’s they rote in and those are so sentimental! And it’s funny how they took less photos but they mean more! I have been a scrapbooked and digital lately but we always seem to go back to those photos that were truly picked for us from our ancestors.
I really like making printed Photobooks. I know it can be time consuming but they take up way less space then a regular album and you can fit so many pictures in a relatively thin book so you don’t have to sacrifice on deciding which memories to keep. It also helps keep the photos organized by year, event, vacation etc. I do this with all my Digital photos and have started the process of scanning in my printed photos and creating printed books with them as well. It does take time but it’s worth it. You can also order copies of the same book to give to kids, grandparents etc.
You just gave me the freedom to get rid of all of the pictures that I won't use. I don't know why I needed that permission, but I just did! Thank you!
Great video. This is a big topic I love how you make it practical to start.
When converting a lot of pictures digital instead of scanning I took a picture with a tablet of the photo. Much faster and simpler than scanning. With device cameras so good these days it looks as good as original. It makes it easy to share the photos with friends and family too.
Just make sure you have good lighting on the photo and click away. I then uploaded from device to shutter fly with their app and then backed up all on hard drive.
This was very helpful! Photos have been on my to do list for awhile now! I think I’m finally going to tackle the photos & organize my husbands photos for father’s day so we can share the photos with our sons! Your video couldn’t have come at a better time!
My simplifying journey is coming along so slowly. I'm a little lost in photo/scrapbooking clutter. I have taken thousands of pictures of my son in the past two years. I planned to create some scrapbooks and have a huge box full of pictures, momentos, scrapbook paper and stickers. I really want to get back to it once my son is a little older, or when I have more time. Thanks for turning me on to FlyLady. I have decluttered a lot and learning to have more grace and patience with the process, with myself and others. Thanks for the tips on managing a household, raising kids, having a healthy marriage, etc. I also enjoy your and Diana's Faith + Simple Living videos. I also am using your meal planning/grocery template, which I have made my own. I can't say "Thanks!" enough. I'm also stuck in the weightloss struggle. I should probably go back and watch your videos from earlier this year.
I am sooo happy with your advise to keep the foto's printed because I don't like the thought of scanning either but I simply forgot there is another way. The option you suggested gave me the motivation to finally start minimising photo's. Thank you for the clarification!
1) 1:42 how do you want to store your photos? 2) 3:00 simplify and pare down the photos (keep highlights, keep the ones that tell the story) The goals is to get it to a manageable amount. 3) 5:50 select you album. Remember that it doesn't happen to be perfect and doesn't have to be in chronological order. 4) 6:52 don't tackle sentimental items first.
A word on Culling, Storage, and Sorting - Culling - This really helps, especially when you talk about saving just a few of the special occasions. Sentimentality can get in the way of culling less-than-good photos that should be tossed. Storage - Photo albums are way too expensive for those of us with hundreds of photos. I will purchase archival sleeves that can be put in 3-ring binders. The sleeves on Amazon are fairly inexpensive. Sorting - I started sorting my photos by primary person, that way when the photos are eventually given to family members, each of my children has their own album of them and their children. As you mention, this is always a work in process, but getting photos out of boxes, and keeping them safe is the primary goal. Thank you for this! - gus (Florida)
I am watching this video for the second time. Working my way slowly through years and years if.unsorted photos. One step at a time, but still very much in the messy middle. At least I can watch your videos while sorting 😍😊. Thanks for your steady motivation to just keep going, very much appreciated 💝