HOW to DECLUTTER printed PHOTOS
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Wonderful and so very helpful. I went thru this process many years ago after my parents passed. It was interesting for me to process the different emotions that arose. As I have no one to leave photos to when I eventually pass, the process of what to keep was a bit different than those who have children and siblings. I sent some photos to extended family who I thought may enjoy seeing them. I kept very few for myself. There was some sadness realizing the photo life of my parents wouldn't continue on. My own photos from my youth were much easier to declutter. I gained much insight into myself, and I am comfortable with my decisions. Beautifully filmed Benita.
Outstanding!! Thank you, Benita. We just moved my 97 year old mother and, in downsizing, a large cedar chest with family photos has come home with me. Your guidance has given a thoughtful, simple way to begin sorting through them. Can't thank you enough!!
I’m so happy if this is helpful to you!
I find the idea of decluttering photos very intimidating, particularly because we just lost my dad last summer. But your wonderful video has made me feel I could accomplish this in the near future. ❤️
I’m sorry to hear about your dad. Hopefully the video helps.❤️
Thank you for making me feel better about tossing all my negatives!
There are so many ways you can get photos reproduced rather than to have dig around for the negative!
Yes, the negatives were also hard to decide how to deal with! Thank you!
Wow, you nailed humans and cameras 😂 We’ve started this process but it’s gonna take a while. Great criteria for decluttering!
Hope the video helps!
"Random pigs" OMG! LOL!
When my mom passed away back in 2014 I took on this task and oh Benita, I'm still doing it. Every time I open an envelope or review the "final" album I see mistakes made during my sorting and classifying....but with music and your partner, if any, the stories and memories are amazing.
So many random pigs!
Thank you so much for this video! I've got boxes full of loose photos and it seems overwhelming to go through! You really gave me the inspiration and I plan to get this done!
I rewatched this video today after receiving a package from my sister. Both the video and the package made me chuckle. My sister sent me a package of snapshots, mostly of her home and garden from yearrrrs ago! One person's clean-out might be another person's toss-out.
Thank you Benita! With thousands of photos to sort through you have given me a starting point. I had already started to only take pictures with people several years ago when I realized that noone will want the "pretty flower, landscape, or street scene" when I am gone. Some photos are used for reference in my paintings usually for the colour remembrance but once used I declutter.
That portrait of you! Ah… i can see it as an art work andy warhol style!
I love this idea Benita!! Thank you! I have many pictures from my grandmother’s family in Italy. Those have been sorted and stored. However, the photos of my kids from the past 20 years fill several large bins in my garage. I’ve been thinking of starting on photos. Thank you for this idea!
Happy if you got some useful ideas!
This is by far the best video I have seen on decluttering printed photos. Thank you so much!
Wow, thank you!
I’ve done all this too and your video brought back memories, good and bad but glad I took the time to do the culling.
Thank you very much for this video, I was looking for this and your video helped me a lot. Greetings from Argentina. PS I love your videos!
I loved how you sorted and organized. I need to do that with my old photos. Now how do you declutter and organise digital photos, can we have a video on that as well please 🙏🙏🙏.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I would love to see a digital photo decluttering and organise video as well, thanks Benita for your great content and channel x
@@Christine-ib5hf You can actually use the same technique on digital photos. Just think of your computer desktop as your physical one and files on your computer as the box lid trays and later cardboard box!
@@BenitaLarsson Yes but what do we do when we also have copies of files with thousands of digital photos in our computer but also saved on external hard disks for fear of losing them? I find it managable to declutter and find duplicates on my computer but what about all the photos/files that were saved outside the computer? How can we compare the files in the hard disks and on the computer without risking to lose photos? I'm generally organized but this is so overwhelming and something that makes me very anxious because I'm thinking of my children and grandchildren and do not want to leave them a big mess...
Super helpful! Points me in the right direction on how to get started on sorting photos.
Very interesting for the community ! I did that some years ago and proceded the same way as you !
No interest to keep photos without meaning, doubles etc. The mire time passes by the less family members to look at them....
I see often albums on the flea market. The past of other people.
A bid sad...
Love from Paris 🌻🌼💜💛💙💚
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Always hit thumbs up before watching, cause I know it will be great 👍.....love from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤.
That’s so sweet, thank you!
I have a huge box of photos, that I just can’t tackle. I’m going to start today. You’ve inspired me to get it done. Thank you for a great content video x
So happy if this got you started on the big project!
Bra video! Jag gjorde något liknande när vi flyttade i början av året. Jag ska dock gå igenom dem en gång till och dina tips är värdefulla.
Thanks
Do I have any printed photos? No! Do I love whatching your video ? Yes!
Benita I did it! Yesterday I decluttered my fabric stash and design-school notes. Today I did 35 years of photos and negatives! It feels fantastic, and you know what, those photos were so easy to go through once I got started.
Geat video and sorting ideas. I feel like I have working on my photos for years and it is time to give it another go. Thank you Benita.
I’m happy if you found some inspiration to pick it up again!
Love this video! I never know where to begin so Thank you for the tips! Im feeling inspired, maybe next weekend I’ll have a look at my boxes full of old photos, and make a start!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and hopefully it will make it easier for you!
Same!
Did anyone else notice young Benita😍😍😍
Haha, those school photos!😅
Oh Benita, what a heroic thing you have done for your Mother! I am the custodian of the photos of our family and boy, do they weigh upon my mind😳 They have been lurking on a high shelf for a long time and you have now given me the courage to get that box down and make a start. Feeling lighter already!
I’m so happy if this was helpful!
Perfect timing. I have a huge photo decluttering project I need to start asap. I am moving within a year and tryng to get ahead of the hardest tasks. I have a box with photos loosely sorted by year, which will be easy to cull. But I also have five or six massive, thick, heavy photo albums from when I lived in Japan as an exchange student, and most of those pictures have become one with the sticky pages they are adhered to. I can't decide whether to try and remove them, or to photograph them, or scan them. Either way the albums are not coming with me, so I have some decisions to make.
Heat the photos with a hair dryer and they will peel off the sticky pages.
Love it!
I find sorting through photos so overwhelming that I can't even think of starting. This made it seem a little more atteinable. You are incredibly patient, disciplined and organized.
Such a timely video Benita - I’m just doing this at my parents house and with my own photos.
I did this 15 years ago, roughly. My kids' dad died, it was so emotional. A couple of years ago I made different piles for all of us. Your idea gives me a lead on how to declutter and divide it more. Thanks, dear.
Thank you so much for sharing!
I’m a librarian and archivist. And I am so so greedy for photos. I have all my photos, all labeled. All scanned. And all my family history photos. Even ones of people I don’t know. Plus I scanned all my brothers photos. My sisters photos, even college friends photos. I also have all my negatives, all sorted in archival sleeves and labeled. I’ve been wanting to reprint them all again, just in case I lost a print I want.but no one prints 110 negative film any more. I still want more and more. My online archive is getting there. But I never get tired of it. Don’t even talk to me about my memorabilia. I have it all in boxes all labeled by years.
Hi Benita, this was great! I'm sure your mum is very glad that you took on this job - I know myself how hard it is to let go of old photos.
I am stressed watching this video. My Mom is 94 and has albums of photos. No one has looked at them in 40 years. I have 3 siblings and no one will want them. We all try to live for today and in the future. They will probably just go in the trash. I have albums of my deceased husband before I met him. I don't know what to do with them. And I have boxes of my own photo albums. I am 61 and my son will not want any of it.
What a great idea Benita ! Thanks for the inspiration ! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm still watching, but this video makes me really sentimental and I want to go print all my photos now ❤️
Only the best, though!😉
What a great video Benita! When we downsized my grandmother and mother i digitized and sorted by branch of family and subject and gave a backup copy to each of the extended family to share. They loved it. My error I think ( maybe not error but my stage of life) is I want to go back to digital files and cull because they are too big to be enjoyable for us. I created a book of a few subject areas for gifts and let go of all the paper copies to kids and family. My mom still has the albums that we can hold up for her to see and rest of us have a lighter closet and nothing to sort when she dies, sisters can share them. I think some kind of folder of best of best and let files go so we actually enjoy them now that they are preserved and shared already. ❤️🇨🇦
Very helpful! thanks
Glad you found it helpful!
This is soooooo helpfull I have not sorted my photos for 20 years and your thoughts and tips have given me a vision on how to take it thank you so much❤
Great video! Thank you for doing this. I am in the process of doing this with mine and my parents photos. I am 27 and still live with my parents. I have kind of put our pictures on hold for a while since we are going through my grandparents belongings. My grandparents were born in the 1920's and lived during the great depression so they saved everything!!! There are pictures of not only my grandparents and my Dad and his siblings, but of Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, Great grandparents, great great grandparents and so on. I also discovered a while back a box of negatives. I originally wouldn't want to keep negatives but I happened to keep some of the older ones from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I actually took pictures of a few and uploaded them to a site that transfers them to positive images. There were a lot of negatives that I had never seen printed copies of. My grandfather loved to take pictures and would even take pictures of friends and neighbors. Thank you again so much for this video!
I started this very project before the pandemic. I stopped because I got overwhelmed. That may have been because I started digitally scanning all of my photos. I thought I should do this because we live in a hurricane prone area of the US, and it’s not possible to evacuate and worry about bringing any photos. AI thought having them digital would be good in the event the hard copies were destroyed. I wish I had thought of using stacking trays, that would have taken up less space in between working sessions. I abandoned the project, and no I didn’t take it back up during lockdown. I just ended a contract job so I have some free time again-maybe I will start again using your very helpful advice. I looked up articles on the subject and never found any thing as straightforward and helpful as this. Thank you once again! Loyal follower since your blogging days!
Digitizing is a massive job so doing a big declutter first Is definitely the way to go! 💪🏻
Thanks for the suggestions and ideas to sort photos. I think that is one of the hardest items to deal with when decluttering. I have set aside time coming up in the winter to do this project as weather is bad and good time to stay in and work on this! Reminding us to use archival paper and boxes is also helpful. I also had many photos in frames and never hung up and I now have removed all the photos that I want to store, Any suggestions for oversized photo's? Great Video today.
I would try and find archival sleeves for the larger ones and a bigger acid free goat box to store them in.
Love this, you are amazing 😍 Would love to see how you keep digital files organised, great tips in this video 👍
Thanks for the suggestion!
Agree! I’m trying to do this at the moment and changes in technology over the years has made it a very long job ...
I feel like my life is a whole gigantic box of photos to declutter !
I also did this recently with many, many boxes and albums of photos. What a chore! I was able to get rid of 90% of the photos (I had to laugh at your “backs of people you don’t know”). I did not get as far as categorizing, so will definitely utilize your idea of a box with dividers!
This was so helpful, I have a big cupboard of photos I didn’t know what to do with 👍🏼
So happy if this was helpful to you!
Where was this video when I needed it during the pandemic when I sorted through about 3,000 photos, that ranged from my parents' youth to my 48-year-old current situation?😄 It took forever to categorize and sort, but that was one of my big quarantine accomplishments.
Hello Benita! 😃 Incredibly organized ~ I love the step by step breakdown (this was so relaxing to watch)❤ We have an incredible amount of photo albums (my mom was so organized like that) - they are very heavy to move - I have many bins full of albums (memories). This is giving me some ideas on how I can possibly combine some of those albums - I know that everything can all be done digitally but I love pulling out the albums, turning the pages, and my mom also wrote underneath each photo (names, dates, and places) - I really don't know how she had all the time to do that, my mom was always so busy! 💓💗💓 Thank you again for sharing - I am going to pull out my kids baby👶 albums and reminisce tonight! 🌼🌷🌼
I made quite a few albums for Wille and they’re SO heavy!😅
My mother moved overseas, and to prepare her for the big declutter, I had her watch some of your videos along with some on Dostadning. She pared down to one medium-large suitcase of clothing and just five banker boxes of personal effects, three of which are being stored with me in the States. I became the keeper of all the family photos, and I must've thrown out one large black rubbish bag full initially, and now I am doing the secondary cull. This is by far the most helpful video available, and I just appreciate you so much! Thank you, Benita! ♥️🙏🏼🌻
Oh wow! What at great accomplishment! I’m so happy if my videos have been helpful. Thank you so much for the love!💕
Photo of Mini 0:51 is too cute! Hope your mum is doing ok! Happy Friday Benita!
Decluttering family photos is a long process. Like you, I got rid of duplicates, bad shots, unknown people, flowers, and scenes that didn't have meaning. My first sort was by date, ah but that didn't work. Second try has been by family and date, hoping this try will work. This was helpful to know, I am on the right track.
These tips were great. The hardest struggle I come across is getting rid of photos of people I don’t know. Just because I don’t know who they are doesn’t mean they’re not important/relevant to my family. So then I’m at a crossroad of what to do with them. I have a very small family but don’t want anyone forgotten or “thrown away”. Does that make sense? 😔
Thank you for this Benita - I had made a start some time ago by removing all the blurry shots, random flowers, scenery etc and now I know how to organise the remaining ones a lot better. I like your suggestion of acid free paper dividers. Very clever.
Glad you got some ideas!
This is so helpful!! I had my children go through all the photo albums I had created and let them choose what they wanted. I still have several bags of pictures in envelopes that I never got around to putting in albums and old photos I took when my mother passed away 11 years ago. I’m going to use your sorting method and pair everything down to one memory box to keep for myself. Thanks for sharing this🙂
Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful!
5:30 I saw a postcard from Thailand and my heart skipped a beat. I recognized Thai alphabet 😊 รัก ค่ะ❤
My mom and I did this recently when she moved from a house to an apartment--hard to start (mostly for her) but incredibly freeing in the end. We used the same decision-making process you suggest and it work wonderfully. The more we did, the more my mom felt ready to part with. On another topic, might you do an exacto knife tutorial sometime? How you selected your tools (exacto blade and holder, cutting mat, straight edge, triangle if you also have one of those). I've never learned that skill but I'd love to have it, likely applying it in ways similar to yours. Thanks for all the great content, Benita. You're an inspiration, and have been for a long time now.
Very helpful! I plan on decluttering mine also. I know I have lots of thumb shots, but I doubt if there are any "random pigs."
At the start I felt overwhelmed, but as you finished I felt inspired. Maybe I can do it too.
You totally can and like I said it doesn’t have to get done in a single session!
Benita, you did an amazing job.
I need to do that with my photos. I’m been procrastinating because it’s not an easy job to do. Well done!
From Canada 🇨🇦
It is a big job but the end result is very satisfying.
I'm almost there with the negatives.
I'm exhausted watching this. I've been doing mine for 5 years now. So hard!
Last year I tackled the big project of going through all the photos and photo albums, results are now all down to 1 small box. With your suggestion I will go through the box and see how I can divide them into categories and maybe just get rid of some more because at the end of day no one is even looking at these pictures anymore.
Happy if you found some additional ideas!
So my mom has a very large, very close-knit family who are all camera happy individuals. She was basically the family historian and passed away back in 2020. As the oldest child of the oldest sibling in her family, I have inherited all the family photos. They take up an entire bookshelf in my teeny tiny apartment, displacing some of my items. She had them divided up into these photo boxes already and by year. The problem I face is that she had 27 of these boxes with photos from the 1910s to the late 2010s (not including the 4 massive photo albums). So I am thinking the best solution is to scan the majority and give boxes to other family members, but it is a DAUNTING task lol.
This video helped me today, Oct 2023. Thanks!
Many work,i 've done it 2 years ago...greetings from germany, Heike 🌞🌞🌞
This is the most helpful video I have found on this subject! Thank you!
Is the portrait photo of a young lady you? What a beautiful girl. I’ve been battling guilt feelings over pictures and negatives for years. Thank you for this video.
My aunt died with 10 big albums and no children. She spent a lot of time and money taking,developing and putting in albums pictures that mostly went into the trash. I make one photo book of about 30 pictures a year on google and delete the photos from my phone. Going through my mom’s and my aunt’s pictures has made me not want too many actual pictures.
Your Uncle or even your Dog blinked😂😂Love your humour!
I still feel overwhelmed. Just watching the fast forward of constant shuffling of the photos made me exhausted. I think I shall just throw out almost all of the photos. I will choose three beautiful ones. How many of these photos do you need? They have sat in envelopes for so long. Doubt your family needs them.
Thank you for the video. Never tought of decluttering pictures can be so important. Need to start looking for duplicates & picture of people i dont know
Super helpful! I have a lot of work ahead of me, but this will help me get started. No to get my family’s blessing on the project. I am not too sentimental or attached, but trying to clean out or house.
Detailed, concise and specific. Brilliant video, and in my view, your best yet. Your guidance has helped me, and l believe it will help people everywhere because it demonstrates this is a project that can be completed in a timely way with your example.
Useful and inspiring. Thank you!
I went through all my photo boxes the last time that I moved and did as you suggested. How many photos of decorated Christmas trees and beaches can one need? Also photos of people we met on holidays who we don't remember and who definitely our kids would not care about! Now my collection is more manageable. It felt good. I found out that the old photos cannot be recycled but have to go in the garbage. I also assembled stacks of photos and gave them to my now adult children so that they would be able to enjoy them.
you had greyhounds growing up? that’s so cool! I have a whippet and loved seeing the old photos of your doggies :)
This was so helpful and inspiring. Thank you.
I went through two large bins of photos and kids school work a few months ago. I kept one of each year school photo and threw away the rest of the packets, discarded duplicates and blurry and also offered pictures to my children that might be special to them. I discovered that I am the most sentimental about photos and my family wanted very few. I am now down to two photo boxes of printed photos and a few pieces of artwork/letters from my childrens younger years. It wasn’t an easy project but I am glad to be done. Your method looks great…wish I saw this before I tackled the project but it will be very helpful to others!
Great job on that declutter!✨
This video was so artistically done and full of helpful information. It was also a real treat to have you share the pictures with us. Thank you!
Or like my husband when he took a picture of relatives at a picnic table and as he took the picture everyone turned their back to him. A bunch of backs of heads went into the trash.
I store my old photos and their negatives,in old translucent VHS cases. they fit perfectly, stack nicely and don't take that much space. plus you can tag them easily.
That’s a cool idea!
This is perfectly timed because I plan to do this with all of my photos this summer. Thank you for the tips! ❤️
We mark photos on a label and then put the label on the photo so the impression of the pen or pencil won’t bleed through and ruin the photograph
Your video has made what seemed like a monumental task into something more manageable. I too have MANY photos to sort through and your approach gives me hope that I can do it … though I’ll be keeping a few of the “thumb” photos of a Europe trip with my mother, father and sister. Dad was notorious for accidentally edging his thumb into photos, so having a few of these photos are a funny reminder of a wonderful trip 👍🇦🇺
Yes to keeping thumbs if they’re part of your family travel history!🙌🏻
Thank you, this is my last major declutter area. And it is hard with some.
It can be sentimental so keeping it for last is the way to go if you’re sentimentally inclined!
Very well made video Interesting to watch
I need to dot his soon Benita. Thanks for the inspiration.
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I did this last year! I threw out two full bags of duplicates, bad shots, negatives, etc. I arranged them chronologically and some went into albums. I try to go through my phone once a year, print a few shots, and then delete everything. It feels so much lighter, and years from now my kids can enjoy the albums which are labeled so they will know what they are looking at! Great job!
Great job you too!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome video, definitely original content with a very important topic for many people
Glad you enjoyed it!
Omg, the last image light leaks! Memories!!!
Jättebra video, Benita! Jag behöver också ta tag i alla bilder från min uppväxt. Jag har gjort en rensning och slängt alla suddiga, dåliga eller dubbletter men vill sortera ut mer för jag vet inte när jag skulle vilja kolla på dem igen. Sist jag hade dem framme var när jag rensade senast. Känner dock inte att jag vill slänga alla rakt av. Så tack för alla bra tips!
I smiled at some descriptions of your photos. I have over 70 years of not so great photos. I like the box lid idea of sorting then the divider box. This seems a good way of sorting the good, the bad and the ugly…Haha
Happy if you got some new ideas!
I just did a photo declutter a week ago. My Mom got emotional and we argued because I wanted to get rid of some photos. Then she actually had fun looking at them with me and we separated some for my aunt that lives abroad. We will digitalise it for her. I used nearly the same criteria you used here. Good job!
Decluttering can be difficult but I’m glad you found a way to go about it that made you both happy! And your aunt!
Such an awesome video!! I find decluttering photos really hard for two reasons: they can’t be recycled here in the uk and I just can’t bear the idea of photos of people or pets sitting in landfill for some reason (irrational but here it is!)
I just about managed to get over throwing away random/bad photos with no people or pets…there was just no alternative and I couldn’t keep them!
I had to have a few little bonfires of photos of people and pets…for some reason it felt better than putting them in garbage! 🔥🔥🔥
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello , You visited Thailand too!
Åhh, va svårt det är att rensa ut foto. Jag hittade denna video när jag sökte på rensa foto. Det är det jag har kvar❣️jag har redan gått en runda men måste göra det igen. Du e bäst, kram❤
'Random pigs' made me smile. We seemed to have lots of animals and bird photos (in addition to photos of our own pets) so I've put some of them in an album to look at with my youngest grandchildren.
That's such a cute idea!
This was a great video, thank you! Could you please also show us how to declutter photos in our computer and external hard disks where they are saved? It's so hard when they have been copied and saved in different places for safe storage. I'm a (very sentimental) grandmother so have multiple generations, themes and so many years of scanned paper photos, scanned slides, recent photos, whatsapp photos... it is overwhelming. I do have lots of different files but couldn't find a great system when saving them in different places for fear of losing them. I often declutter a file here and there but with no real method and then don't remember where and when I saved the decluttered files. I would appreciate it so much if you could do a video with some guidelines! You are such an organized person :) Best wishes!
I had a horrible mess of over 40,000 digital photos on many different devices. Many were duplicates with different naming schemes that had occurred as a result of hard drives crashing, CD backups, and uploads to google photos. I finally bought a subscription to microsoft365 last fall which gives me a terabyte of space on one drive. The one drive app automatically copies the photos from my phone into a monthly folder on my hard drive and automatically backs up the folders to the cloud so things are safe. After I shoot photos, I go into onedrive and make sure that the photos are there, then I delete them from my iphone and delete the ones that are not great from onedrive. Last fall I created year folders in onedrive for the previous years and did my best to move things into onedrive. Because of the different naming schemes I had to match photos visually, rather than by name, so it was an enormous task which I still have some work to do on. I also created a favorites folder for each month where I put a copy of all of my best photos over the years, so I can use them as background on my computer. I'm also thinking of buying a digital photoframe which will do the same thing. Finally I've created a couple of folders by theme, for example of my garden over the years, so that I can do a slide show of that too. The nice thing about digital photos is that ultimately you can create copies so that you can sort them in a variety of ways. I suppose I could also sort them by name and avoid making copies, but until I get all photos named correctly, it's easiest for now to just dump them into folders. Hope this helps.
You can use the same method if you think of your computer desktop as you physical table and files on there as the box lid trays.
@@ericajansson9035 Thank you so much for your wonderful help, taking the time to share your experience and explain your method in details! It is so helpful :) I appreciate it so much and am sure it will help me tremendously. I wish you a great day and all the very best!
@@BenitaLarsson Thank you for your response but I already do this. As I think I explained, my problem is that older copies of folders and photos are also saved on various external drives so when I decluttered photos on my computer or on those drives I could not compare what I have as a whole, risking to lose precious photos or make unecessary duplicates.