Organizing a Lifetime of Photos With My Mom
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- Today my mom and I are sharing her experience with decluttering and organizing a lifetime of photos. From overwhelmed to organized!
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Congratulations Kathy and Shannon ! This represents a lot of work and is much needed encouragement! Generations will benefit!
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This is a great undertaking of sorting old photos! It does take time and you cannot rush it. Reliving memories is my favorite part. Really like the idea of creating a photo album just for you Kathy!
Hello! Last year, my brother and I disposed of our parent's home contents that had been there for 53 years! It was quite the undertaking! My parents had bookshelves of slides, photo books, boxes of photos, and reel-to-reel movies. Overwhelming doesn't even begin to describe how we felt. This experience left me with the mantra, "I'm not doing that to my children!" It did take months, but I went through our family photos - everyone has a 'photo box' to pass along (one day). They are mostly in order and dated on the back. I agree with many of your tips as to where to begin. Thank you for sharing your story to help others!
I spent the pandemic isolation sorting thousands of photos. Some dating back to the 1860's. I gathered all of them onto a large table in an unused room upstairs in my house. It took months. It was a very emotional process. Now 99% of the photos have been sorted and put into albums with names, dates & explanations. At least one half of the photos have been discarded. Finally, I will set aside which albums I will give to each of my children. A mighty task, but, worth it!
I'm so stuck in sorting photos. It gives me anxiety that I have so much, but still want to do it, pair it down and share with our kids. I already threw away maybe 2000 paper pictures and more than 10 000 digital. It's crazy. It's sad photos became like a heavy burden, instead of something positive. We decluttered the whole house twice during the last years. But I could not go through all the photos.
You are doing so well! You too inspire me so much, and rise my engergy. I don't call myself a minimalist at all, and don't think I ever will be. I have a home that is beautiful, clean and airy with decorations.
Love your channel! Thank you for sharing.
I'm 55 & I inherited all of my mom's photos. I gathered them all into big bins. Hopefully, I can start the process of organizing this year🤞🏻
I have been putting off this project since I have 50 boxes of family photos and memorabilia in my basement from the past 120+ years. My dad took tons of photos, and printed doubles or triples. He was also in the family genealogy, so every time a relative died, they sent all of the photos and memorabilia to my dad. Now it’s all in my basement.
@@tgayer1 I’m 68 and have been doing the same with all the photos my Dad took and kept. Just so daunting to deal with them.
I’ve scanned all my photos and family history photos. I make small digital photo books for many people as gifts. One of my favorite things to do. I made two special books for my dad when he was in final stages of dementia. One was of his kids, grands and great grandchildren with captions. I also made one of his childhood up to his wedding. He and mom grew up as next door neighbors and their friendship and courtship are a special memory. The professionals at his dementia facility actually used the books during his therapy.
Yes … a large job! Congrats Cathy!!! I inherited large tubs and tubs of photos from my mother as she was the last of her generation prior to her passing. The weekend she gave them to me, she spent time with me and we sorted thru a lot of the pics - so I had first hand (recorded) knowledge of what she remembered. She felt bad ‘dumping’ it all on me. I had already been working with my dad’s sister that had been the genealogist for their family for years, which gave me a head start on how to go about sorting, purging, etc.
I went thru and pulled the photos/info I felt was most important, sorting out the extra stuff for each of my siblings. I then had a sibling get together one evening and gave them each THEIR box. In addition I had a large box of duplicates and photos I didn’t want that they could ‘paw’ thru and choose what they wanted from vacations, family reunions and every day life - but, there were still lots of photos left. Next I invited the cousins to come sort thru what was left. Lots of great laughter, tears, stories were shared. Once all the EXTRA MESS was out of my house, I put things away for over a year as by this time we had lost mother and then 9 days later my little sister and I needed time to grieve.
After I felt up to working on them again, I started filing them by year/event/people, while also doing a bit more purging. Then I started entering them into a digital form thru Blurb.com. It took about a year for me to gather it all together in book form and contacting my brothers and cousins for any extra memories they had before it was ready to be printed. That Christmas I gave a copy of the family book to each of my children, brothers and cousins that had helped. I also gave them the address should they wish to give copies to their own children/grandchildren.
So far I have 9 family history books, 2 large vacation books, 1 family recipes and just finished a book compilation of MY info from school year books and personal photos to take to my 60-year class reunion this year. Also, I am now working on a book of my husband & my 50+ years together …. with one to two pages per each year. We downsized and moved out of state to share a home with our daughter & husband 3 years ago. I was so grateful that I had tackled the photo project rather than have to move all those TUBS and then find space to store them once we got here. I just tucked the books into the bottom of my suitcase with my clothing and then set them on the shelf when I got here.
Keep at it … it is definitely worth the work you are putting into the project now. And, Shannon and her family will always have the memories you are saving!
I had 5 closets full of photos…. And I was way overwhelmed. My hubby and I decided to downsize and move to Texas. So before I left my large home (needed the room!) my sister and I pulled everything out! The first thing we did, was toss blurry photos and any photos that didn’t have a person in it, and duplicates! We had to do this all at once (not separately) cuz we didn’t have time to keep fingering through each photo. A week later… 9 hour days we got 95% done. Now I’m settled in TX and I am so thankful for my sister who helped me. I decided to pull out my photos again… now 1 closet full. I fingered through and weeded out even more. This time I separated my husbands family/ancestors, and our family/kids/grandkids. I skipped worrying about dates and years. On a few important ones I did write on the back the year…. But I just wanted organization! I have a window storage now with my hubby’s family…. And one hope chest with our family kids. No more closets! I never even looked at the photos before cuz all it did was remind me of a big chore I needed to do. Now I can look at my photos and each one is super meaningful. From now on I will be placing my future photos on USB drives. I have 15,000 on my phone. 😂
If you make a photo book of the old ancestral photos I highly recommend adding a family tree with peoples names to the beginning of the book so you're grandkids know who the people are.
That's a great idea, a copy for each adult family member. Would make a "great" gift.
This is a great idea!
Going through photos is definitely overwhelming!! I have photos in chronological order from the late 1950's through 2006. I still have heritage photos to go through as well as all my digital photos!! The plan is to make a scrapbook for each of my sons. I've been saying that for the past 25 years🙃 Thanks for your video!! It's nice to see what others do with their pictures!!
Great Tips! I am in the process of doing this now. I am 29 and am currently living with my parents. I have been slowly going through our photos, as well as the ones that my Dad's parents had. My grandparents were born in the 20's and raised during the great depression and they saved everything. My grandmother had over 60 albums stacked in her closet, not to mention photos in frames, boxes and drawers. I am still finding pictures when I look through books and misc. boxes. I have gone through all of the pictures and have given away a lot to my Uncles, Aunt's, cousins and other family members, but there are still tons of pictures left over. I am also into Genealogy so keeping most of the older photos is really important to me. My plan is to do scrapbook albums. I have started slowly organizing one for me (birth through high school) and then do one for my Dad and then redo the one that my grandmother made for my Mom (I found some more pictures to add to it). I hope to then work on the scrapbooks for the older family pictures after this.
I had originally thought doing an album on my grandmother's childhood and her extended family, one for my grandfather and his family and then one of them starting with their dating, marriage etc. Not really sure how to organize it all yet. My grandparents had 5 kids and I have pictures of all of them, plus my Dad's Aunts, Uncles, and cousins, not to mention pictures of the great grandparents, great Aunts and Uncles, great grandparent's cousins and friends and even some 2nd and 3rd great grandparents. The dates range from the 2000's back to the late 1800's ( Tintypes and cardboard photos). I would estimate that there are probably over 10,000 pictures! It will get done it will just take some time. Thanks for any tips or suggestions that you can give me. Again, such a great video.
I started the photo declutter in 2020. I used the same style of photo boxes with compartments for each of my kids. I also took pictures that were more important to others and sent them on. It was appreciated.
Great job! Yes, it’s ongoing. I’m 49 and have inherited all my parents’ photos after losing my mom 22 years ago and dad 1 year ago. As I started looking through photos, it was natural to edit down their memories like business associates or landscapes. Naturally lots of bad lighting or bad angles or even double exposures to edit out. Like Kathy said, I edited down similar angle photos in a single event. This becomes easy after I organize by year. Then I break each year up by month. Our wedding almost 26 years ago…about 10” tall stack of photos, Overwhelming for a one day event! So broke into sub categories: Morning Of, Church Ceremony, Post Outdoor Park shots, and Reception. Further sub categorized. For example, by people or place or time. The point is enjoy looking at the photos from whatever highly photographed event, Group and subgroup photos until you can work with a number at a time. You will quickly identify doubles or similars. This is best done in multiple passes over a period of time to give your mind rest from thousands of micro decisions.
Your Mom has done an amazing job! I did this exact thing two years ago. I am so relieved to have it done, it is real work.
A few suggestions I’d like to add…. 1. On the back of the printed photos write the info as if no one knows who any one is. A few general down the line might not know who Aunt Sally is. Write Sally Smith daughter of or sister of. Dates and places as well. 2. On scanning- I suggest loading everything onto an external hard drive. What if your computer crashes and all your photos and hard work are lost. I make 2 copies and keep one in a fire proof safe. Also while scanning add all the info date, people places in the “name” of file when saving. Then when you’re looking for a certain event or a certain person all you have to do is type their name in the search bar and all the photo they are in come up . Saves a lot of time. Great video
As a genealogist, yes, label thoroughly and keep copies.
Loved this video! I have such an appreciation for this video as someone who had a TON of family photos to deal with. I am the youngest of 5 and I inherited my mom & dad's photos and papers ( birth and death certificates of ancestors, etc.) I did not want to hand down a jumble of pictures and papers to my kids when I am gone (I have 6!) so I have worked very hard to sort, organize, scan and store what I had. I used the 5x7 containers your mom did to store pictures and I labeled them by families - my parents, my mom's parents, etc. I used 4x6 sized containers for the smaller photos for each of those families. I also use Family Search and Ancestry so I have meticulously scanned and uploaded photos to each of those sites. It took a lot of time but I worked on it an hour here and there most everyday till it was done! It feels soooo good to have it organized and usable! And the great this about having everything scanned in is that you can easily share them with people! ❤️ Great job!
You and your mother have such a lovely relationship. I seem to be the keeper of family photos and I am overwhelmed. Now, I am inspired thanks to you two.
Great to watch. I’m your mom’s age. All those years that we automatically got the duplicate prints! Many were sent to my dad, and when he passed away I got them all back. My goal for this past winter, that I did not get to, was to at least get rid of those duplicates. Oh well. Yes, the process is ongoing. I have tossed a lot of the bad ones.
Such a huge job, but so worth it. My parents have been identifying people on old photos, which is very important for genealogy. I would not have been able to identify many of them and my kids definitely wouldn’t know who many of them were.
What a fabulous job!! I have spent the last couple of months going through every scrapbook I made, I was a Creative Memories consultant, so there are many! I took a picture of all of the pictures in the album as well as loose pictures, and made Google Albums for groups of years. I went back to my parents and grandparents! I love having these albums in Google Photos for my family. I am going to store them on USB drives and put them in our safe for all of my kids. I then took photos of the family treasures and keepsakes and added text to them of why each item is important, who made it or who it belonged to and its age. Since I'm very minimal this was easy to do. I am loving having the Google Album with our family items that are displayed in our home or in my husband's and my one memory tub that we share. I have enjoyed the process of going through the photos, the wonderful memories, and special times so much! It is such a blessing to know where all of my photos are and have them all in one place!!
I sincerely hope there is more decluttering to do at your mom's lovely home...these are my favorite!!!
Photos are the final frontier of decluttering. I too have my grandparents collection and sooo many. I've made progress over the years like your mom but am nowhere near having an enjoyable curated collection. I guess they are next on the list. Now that my home is basically decluttered I have the mental/emotional stamina to get them done. Maybe ...
When I retired I did this. Quite an undertaking. Extra photos I sorted and made small albums and gave to close relatives which they loved.
Photos are tough to declutter. I had to get brutal with myself at one point with the duplicates and people I haven't seen since I worked with them, etc. Now I'm down the photos of family and close friends. I'm going to look into the photo box with the smaller boxes. Thanks for sharing!
I have done a ton of decluttering but I gave up on photos. I did the baggie thing several years ago. This is one thing I will leave for my kids. I told them if they do not know who is in the photo, throw it out.
I have downsized my photo collection. And will downsize it further. But, like you, I do not plan on extremely “over-organizing them”. It just gets to be too much, it’s not worth that much stress and time, because no one after me is going to care nor want even 1/2 of them. I’m not offended that they won’t ; I’m just stating a fact.
I love when you post videos with your mom. You’re lucky - she is awesome. I will have to dig my childhood photos out of a giant hoard after my mom passes away. So I like watching you & your mom.
Kathy, you have done an amazing job with your photos! I'm doing the same thing and it is not easy, but feels so rewarding. ❤
Shannon, you and your mother are amazing women who inspire me by your good and kind natures. I have enjoyed all your videos and look forward to more! God bless the both of you and your families!
Awesome! Family Search is a great way to store historic photos!
I just finished this weekend after months of declutters and purging duplicates. I used the same suitcase storage. My photos were from 1800’s to 2006. Now my next project is digital and I’m not excited about it😂 Great job you have done on yours.
Thank you so much for this update! I am also trying to organize and downsize photos, ( several people have told me they are as well), and you are sharing great ideas. I hope you continue to update and give motivation/inspiration to viewers.
I think the rabbit trails as we look at old photos slows us down but it’s also one of the sweet parts of the task. Thanks again for the encouragement!
This is something I NEED to do. I love ALL photos. Hobby lobby and Michael’s both sell that photo box. I agree with you have to be in the mood for sure.
We make a photo book every year from our phone photos and give them to our kids as a gift. They love it. Plus we clear our phone storage
I do the same for my parents and aunt overseas - the photo books are a great clutter-free gift and foster family connection :)
Great tips. I need the habit of deleting photos from my phone just like keeping my email inbox clean.
Great job ladies!
I've started this project. Indeed it's a process. I came across a photo out of a plane window of part of the wing and mostly clouds. It and a lot of negatives went in the trash.
This same task is on my todo list. Great tips! I will refer back to this video when I have the courage and discipline.
I love the “all in one spot” approach! I inherited all of my great grandma’s photos, and she had photos from her mother and mother-in-law. I have kids so that makes 6 generations so far! If I am a grandmother some day I will have 7 generations of photos to organize. It’s overwhelming!
Loved this! Photos are great, but stressful to decide what to do with!! Thank you! - Belinda
One of the benefits of doing this is knowing where they are in the case of an evacuation-they are all together and easily brought with. One thing I did was get some fire pouches to put our most important documents and pictures in it. We all know where they are and are grab and go.
Great video!
Yes, I got so tired of hauling the tubs of photos to the basement when we had tornado watches, etc. I couldn’t leave the tubs in the basement as it was known to flood. And I lived in tornado alley at that time. I now have it all condensed down to about 15 books that I have stored in a small wheelie suitcase under my bed that I can grab at a moments notice in case of fire, etc.
@@janicesmith3986 Great idea to put them in a suitcase!!!! I have one in my attic that I can bring into the house that will hold all our photos and memory boxes ❤️
Great job! I passed many ancestry photos on to a cousin who was active with ancestry and wanted to put photos on line as well as write a book about them. She is single, no children, retired professor. Perfect person who wanted to tackle all of it. That's my mother's side, but my father's side...still on me. I appreciate your suggestions so much! Thanks!
Wow Shannon, you have almost hit the 100k mark. When I started watching, you were around 25k. I have enjoyed the channel... Your mum too. ❤🙏
Thank you so much! I am happy to have you here. We are slowly creeping up to the 100K make and it feels very slow LOL. I hope you are doing well. =)
I need to do this with my parents' photos. It's so overwhelming. I appreciate your tips.
Hi Kathy & Shannon, I’m gradually getting done photos too; taking me about 5 yrs. I’m scanning most including framed wall photos and marking the back of framed portraits that they are scanned so they can be easily disposed of when I’m gone. It was awfully hard at first (memories) but easier as I get to end. Very helpful video. Love you both ❤❤
I love those frames. My kids gave me mine for Christmas. It’s my new favorite thing.
This was fantastic! Thank you both. I have a lottttt of photos! I also love family history and love seeing how to store the heritage photos
Totally inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Was a retirement project of mine but has been too overwhelming to get started
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! So I don't have much anymore, but I do have like a solid brick of pictures and memorabilia that has got to weigh ten pounds or more. I was going to go through it last week, but I just put it on my desk to go through this morning 😂😂 I just noticed this video and felt relieved!
Good timing! My eldest daughter will be 40 tomorrow (how?!!) and I was asked for photos of her childhood - which of course were all physical format... I spent a long time pulling all the photos, boxes and albums together, sorting them into piles, discarding fuzzy ones and brittle plastic albums and generally tidying them up, then dividing them up for me and my three girls and putting each girl's pics into chronological order and then digitising a select few for the "party". I won't be getting rid of the physical photos because I know (not simply distrust) that digital is not "forever" (they told us that when CDs came out LOL) and had I not had physical photos I would never have been able to make the wonderful photobook for my grandma's 100th birthday that she loved till the day she died. Thanks to digital I have almost no photos from 2000-2010, because they were lost from old cameras and laptops, that makes me so sad for my younger two girls. I may digitise more and make family books for the girls, but my own personal, curated and decluttered collection stays right here with me to enjoy and show the grandkids - naturally also the old family photos dating back to 1893!
That is a lot of work but it will be so worth it in the end. My sister and I had huge totes to go through after our mom died. It was so much work and we only knew a small number of the people. It would have been nice to have had it so organizeed.
Shannon, your Mom has done a amazing job with her photo organization. Great job ladies!❤❤❤
I'm working on this right now. After attending a funeral & seeing a slideshow of photos, with tons before digital, I realized I need to get busy scanning all of my old photos. I'm also doing this for my parents. It's going to be a LONG year or so ahead, but necessary.
I use sticky notes on the back of the photos with as much info as I know. I've started separating them by person so that when someone passes we can pull all the photos of them for a presentation. I too have been able to delight distant and close relatives and even children of my parents friends with family photos they didn't have.
I think you both are such great examples of what families should be doing. I have gone through all my photos of my kids and divided them up and have given them to them. I have gone through my parents photos and thrown away the unnecessary photos. I am stalled at the next stage so you are giving me motivation.
Awesome to create a book of the family history and giving it to the family! Lots of great ideas.
Love this video! I am beginning the process of organizing years of photos and am definitely feeling more encouraged. Great job, Kathy! 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
I am in the process of doing this same thing. I also have been giving relatives many photos when we have get togethers!
Love this video. I just cleaned out my 5’x10’ storage space and had thousands of photos and albums (I’ve been a scrapbooker since 1999). I also went thru the pics and got rid of bad and duplicate pictures. I took the pictures I wanted to keep out of the albums so I didn’t have to keep the albums anymore. Now comes the sorting process where I will put family pics on thumb drives for each of my family members. Very freeing
Thank you! This is exactly where I am at right now, with many generations just like you to go through
Everyone should subscribe to your channel. I love watching you and your mom. You both give great advice. This looks like a huge task, so wonderful your mom is up to this. That is so lucky for your children.
I’ve been on the photo organising journey for a few years. I am also the keeper of all of the Family and Ancestral photos. Your videos encouraged me to declutter unneeded, duplicate, blurry photos. I did that. Now I have to re position all of the photos in the albums and combine some. I’ll get back at it but what a challenge!! 🥴 your video was very encouraging!! ❤
Omg I started doing this too.!!! I made newhoto books into photo albums and scrap book with old artifacts combined. It was also emotional for me. I am a 68 year old only child. It's been my honor to do this. Because I want to keep them but must be organized. Love you and your mum together. She is my age. I'm in jersey. Married and retired. Love your channel.
Thank you for being here! It can be very emotional to go through photos and sentimental items, that is something my mom mentioned to me.
Thanks for sharing your family photo organizing/decluttering journey with us. You've given me some great ideas to help me with mine. Just yesterday, my two daughters came to my house, and we went through a large bin of photos together. They didn't leave until nearly 2 am, but we all enjoyed laughing and sharing memories. In hindsight, I wish I had the pictures more organized before my oldest daughter pulled them out of the envelopes (along with the negatives). I had written snippets of information (such as dates, events, and locations) on the outside of each envelope, but now it's a jumble of negatives and photos (lost envelopes with the written info), so I need to reorganize the mess again.
Thank you both! Great tips and information. This is probably the most overwhelming project I need to get done. So I guess I just need to get started and whittle away each day.
Oh this has been so helpful and great to see
I am in the process of doing this huge task as well
It is so overwhelming…..
I am boxing up and scanning photos it takes time
Thank you so much 🙂
Thank you!! I have put this off for far too long. You all help so many. Thank you for sharing your authentic process, life-changing!
Yes pictures please!!!!
Good job!!! I have gathered all family photos, including ancestral photos, in a big plastic bin. I haven’t been able to open that bin in 2 years. Hope that this will be the inspiration for me to get started again.
This sorting of pictures is daunting, personnally I have done this around ten years ago.
It is true it is a big process but so worth it. Now, I do not owned even one paper pictures, it has been all digitals.
Thank you for sharing.🙌💟
I recently bought a clear plastic photo holder, just like the smokey gray one your mom has, but it’s for 4x6 photos. When you mentioned that you were looking for one that you really liked and what would work, I thought, oh, I wonder if they know about the one I bought, lol
I have yet to start sorting and using, but your video has great information to know before I start, so thank you! 😊
I did this many years ago and need to do it again ….but me and my cousins did the same thing….we all got together and reminisced and brought photos home .😊❤️
This is timely! I'm in the process of culling/digitizing/loading to my photo frame. Your mom's collection makes mine look downright manageable!
I really need to do this too. Now we have my mother's and my husband's parents photos to go through also😢
I gathered all my photos into one place and 2 years later haven’t started the real work. Thank you for this video - I think it has inspired me to tackle this huge task - my stacked photo boxes are 5+ feet high 🤪
Yay! Step one complete, now on to the next step =)
Photos are so hard! I'm going to pay a professional to scan them I think. My gift to myself after years of decluttering ❤
I so appreciate when you showcase your Mom decluttering her belongings. Five years ago I was given all the family photos (unorganized) from my in-laws when they downsized. We’ve been working on decluttering our home since we became empty nesters 3.5 years ago, in January we finally got to the point where I could start on all those photographs. I’ve designated a spare bedroom for this project and have organized 6 flat boxes with the names of our three kids and three nieces/nephew. Sorting pictures - one shoebox at a time has made it less overwhelming. My goal is to have everything sorted by Christmas, and your idea of creating a book is really exciting. I now plan to create six books, and include a page with our family history/genealogy as a Christmas gift.
Thanks so much for another inspiring video!
I purchased a digital photo frame that holds an unlimited amount of photos. I take my phone and snap a picture of the photos and then send it to the frame. This way every 15 seconds, I see a new photo and it brings me back to that special time
I think for me I finally got to all the physical ones. Kind of was one of the last major things. I have yet to tackle all the ones sort of lost in cyberspace from the time we started taking all our pics on our phones/devices until the current phone. 😅😅 (ugh. Tech is not my strong suit). I work on my current phone but Idk where to even start with “past devices” and I’ve had problems accessing at least one device.
I just have like one big pretty momento box where I have a couple of large stacks. (Along with other special things). Grabbed up a few albums at the thrift store and made a kind of “summary life collage highlights.” And that’s really all I kept. (Except for in digital land. Lol). It also made me feel proud that I could get something like that all organized and “pretty.” Like an art project or such. Lol.
This is exactly my problem,,, well done
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A beautiful time consuming journey! Sorting, Gathering, Organizing n Scanning can b extremely overwhelming but well worth the effort! I would like 2 share something, tho. Unfortunately, Occasionally, Electronics can fail! I had years of "work" scanned on a 4T External. We have 5 children and I had lots of other family's photo memories in folders that had folders that had even MORE folders stored n organized! My 4T External was actually Less than 1 yr old n somehow it crashed! I had a person help retrieve as much of the files that he was able. However, most were lost! 😭😱
I advise that precious n important information b stored in Multiple places!!! On Multiples Externals! Downsizing extra n duplicate pics is understandable but Always keep those hard copies! U never know who might want them! 😉💞📸
Thanks 4 sharing! I always enjoy U n Ur Mom's Decluttering journeys! 💞😘😘
Yes so true! One of my coworkers from IT dept gave me that same advise 10 yrs ago when she had a thumb-drive fail and lost some of her photos. Digital back-ups are a smart plan.
I’m still going through several large bins of photos, slides, (movies 16mm, 8mm and super 8) these go back to the 1920’s. So many but I’m getting through them slowly. Getting rid of the ones with people I don’t know.
Love your mum! I decluttered my photos years ago. I have about 6 or 7 of the 4x6 photo holders like your mum's black one (Mine are rainbow coloured) I got bored when sorting the photos and just ended up shoving them all in the containers... I should probably revisit that project one day. I had thought that it will be my niece's issue one day but that is mean haha (Most of the photos are of her and her brother growing up).
My mom started making books through Google. She titles them “Best of whatever year”. So the family sends pictures to be included in the book.
Well done on what I find to be a daunting project! Would your mom be open to sharing her copious (and undoubtedly super helpful) notes?
My mom is in the middle of picture organizing and decluttering. So overwhelming! What an amazing job, Kathy!
I have to hand it to you Kathy for keeping on this difficult process. I have done some of it but had to take a break as well. I was Wondering if you could post your notes 📝 of helpful suggestions you had there?
It's nice to see your mom back on a video with you.
Hi Shannon & Kathy, This video is much needed... Especially in Swedish death cleaning! Luv you both and your content!!❤
This was so encouraging. It’s a daunting project!
Great video and very helpful! I just started this process with photos. I love the photo box idea and labeling each year. Plus how you would take a break and go back. It seems to cut down on the overwhelming task it could be. Thanks again ❤
Currently on this journey with 100 years worth of photos. Emotionally draining but so worth the effort.
That is EXACTLY the way I store my pictures! I have several of those cases. I also have a clear case the same size without dividers for each of my kids for school pictures and other larger size photos of them.. And I pretty much did it the same way-got rid of all the duplicates and LOTS of multiple pictures of the same event. And pitched all of the photo albums that took up an enormous amount of space. Kathy, great minds think alike! 🤪🤣
Such a great video! This is one of my favorite RUclips channels ever!
Thank you so much! I am happy to have you here.
Love to see videos of you both.
I'm sure you do this already, but I'd like to advise saving important things like digital/scanned photos and documents on at least one additional storage device. I use several usb sticks and ssds (redundancy is important and also replacing them after a few years) even though I - as a linux user - don't have to worry about viruses so much. But electronics can fail and I had some scares over the years, so I'm quite paranoid at this point 😅
I also have one usb stick with my most important data in a small bag with my ID etc., which is always right by my door so I could grab it in an emergency like a fire (knock on wood) and leave quickly.
So true! Thank you for sharing that.
Bravo Kathy!
Thanks for this! I’m currently doing the same thing, and out of all of the decluttering projects I’ve done, photos are by far, the most overwhelming😮💨! Love your updates! Thanks again for the continued inspiration and tips🙌🏼🤩!!!
This is inspiring! 👍😁