At a ladies' gathering last month, we were discussing clutter. One friend brought up old photographs. She said she could easily toss them as they aren't organized and just sit around, cluttering up areas. I was rather horrified! I'm a tried and true scrapbooking mom and while I'd be willing to part with some of the poor quality photos, I don't know if I could ever ditch the entire box.
It did get me thinking. How many pictures of Susie at age 4 do we really need to keep? Would 12, or one per month, of her 4th year be sufficient? If you are wanting to get into scrapbooking, it's pretty expensive to use all 200 photos of Susie from that one year. What if she's now 22 and you are a little behind on getting the photos cropped, placing stickers, and coordinating paper to accent each 12 x 12 page? It just MIGHT be time to whittle down the box of photos waiting for a home. Another avenue is to send them away to a company that scans them all, creating a digital version of all those shoeboxes full of photos. Digital copies don't clutter our homes, so you could ditch the boxes of curling photos and still have them on the computer if you wished to take a walk down memory lane.
Consider what you can do with all those old photos sitting in boxes.
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