When I saw how poignant, immediate and available everything was, I went home and did just what you are thinking of doing. The other had a jumble of photos, all labeled on the back as to when and who was who. One had personal letters, love letters, postcards from friends, letters from their now-very-grown children written when they were in college, etc. On their coffee table were two attractive 11x14 boxes. The husband had Alzheimers, the wife spent her time coping. Years ago, I did in-home care for a couple in their 80's. Jerseygirl, I'm wondering what your decision was? Still a work in progress, as each of the families continue to grow. Today I have my own scanner and printer, so that should make putting albums together really easy. taking many photos 40 miles into town to scan. I also made seperate albums for each of my 3 children. and then the rest of US when they come here to visit. I expect it will be fun to show him off to his new family. the time period when he lived with us during his baby/toddler years. We are about to visit 38 year old grandson who has just had his first baby, and meet his new wife and 2 children. and it is a still to be done chore to get some digitals printed. Digital is fine, but we do miss gathering around he 'albums' checking out the parents etc. Meanwhile, the very large 12x12 albums ARE looked at frequently and different 'times/people' are found easily.Ī couple of summers ago, youngest grandaughter made the observation that there were no photos of her in the albums (age 13), so this winter I did spend some time bringing the "Family Albums" more up to date. I still have one photo box with 'worthwhile' but unidentified photo's and duplicates, if any family members ever want to check them out and one box of negatives identified mostly as they were saved by the photographer. It DID take a year, and my large dining room table was like an ocean as I got it cleaned up from one year/era before the next came rushing in. I typed into a computer program all of the details I could gather about ancestors from obits etc.and sealed those clippings into album pages as well. I organized by year, cropped and pretty much made 'collage' pages.many photo's telling a 'story in photos' with few captions on only a few pages. Even postcards were put their own (plastic pocketed) album. etc.I spent most of one year re-organizing and putting stuff in albums of uniform size and archival quality.the timing was right for it to happen. When my Mother passed away and I inherited boxes of old photos, clippings, announcements photo albums of many sizes etc. As much as I love technology, I guess I'm a dinosaur when it comes to pictures, lol. I definitely don't want to put them on my computer or scan them, I love having the actual pics. I even went to my 25th college reunion last year and didn't bring the albums because they were so bulky to fly with, but my friend just brought all of hers in a photobox and we had so much fun looking at them. Will I regret this? I mean, I have somehow managed to put my pics in albums throughout my life, but the albums are so bulky. I could honestly get all of my albums in one of these and have so much more space. I have thought of using photoboxes, or one of those plastic boxes where you can index pictures in smaller little boxes and store them. A lot are in those magnetic albums, which, I have learned, are not good for pictures anyway. The albums take up so much space, and I'm thinking of dismantling them all, as they literally take up a full bookcase, which I need to get rid of, for her bedroom. I have a ton of photo albums from the past 20 years (mostly pre-kids, back college days,and those wild and crazy single days, lol) I now have 3 small children, and have decided to convert my office into a 3rd bedroom.
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