Storing Photos

[Kirsten]

I have my paper photos stored in a huge card board box, index cards help me not to create a big mess in there! LOL Only the very special ones are in a photo album.

I have my digital ones saved on dvds (which is said to be not safe because the data may get lost after a couple of years), I also have them on my main hard drive, and also on a second one.

Kirsten

[Laura's Babies]

I keep my actual photo's in a plastic box simple because that takes up far less room than those big ablums. I have so many that it would also take a room for me too, just to keep the ablums in.

I bought a external hard drive to keep my digital pictures on... I am so afraid of loosing them due to a virus, a crash or whatever and I keep that turned off unless I am adding to it or looking for something on it.

[Freedom]

When I was born, my Mom started an album for me. It has a photo of each set of granparents, pics of her and Dad as kids, then their wedding photo. Next, my brith announcement. She kept it up from there. When I was 16 or so, I started taking care of the albums myself. I am currently on album 47!

They are all stored in boxes in the cellar. I DO take them out and look now and then. (Not all at once, of course! That would be a few days of looking.)

I got a digital camera last month, and I am taking more pics than ever! I am way behind in printing them out.

The earlier albums have those sticky corners to hold the pics in. That is "supposed" to be the best way to store photos, have them last, not go yellow. And easy to take them out and read on the back who, what, when where. The later albums are the celophane, and those have already started to yellow. Plus it is a nuisance to get ONE out to check who, when, etc. and I find I just don't bother as often as with the corners.

I have never used albums with sleeves for the pics. I always get 3 x 5 prints, NOT the larger 4 x 6. And I have pages with them in "landscape" and pages with them in "portrait." I could never see how you would handle that with the sleeve type albums.