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Easy Organizing – 8 Tips For Storing Photos
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Today’s feature tip is from Good Housekeeping with Easy Organizing: Photos:
To keep precious memories on instant recall, first collect all the snaps that have been tossed into drawers or piled up in stacks. Then do a serious sorting-out job, ditching all but the best, and store the rest in archival-quality boxes and albums.
Tips include: Be choosy about the photo albums you use (acid-free only); don’t be afraid to toss the losers (blurry, etc.) and give away the doubles to reduce your “To Organize” pile; Stock up on supplies so you always have what you need on hand to stay organized.
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Organizing is one of my problems. Being spontaneous, I tend to be disorganized and do organize once in a while.
Here’s another tip about saving old photos… don’t use those “magnetic” photo albums! After a while, the photos become bonded to the adhesive and you can ruin photos trying to get them off.
Good ideas but the one about keeping negatives doesn’t go far enough. Don’t store your negatives in the same place as your pictures. I give my negatives to my sister and store all of hers. Everyone thought we were crazy until my brother lost everything in a fire. We were able to reproduce most of the ones he treasured. (The same thing applies to your computer back-ups. Take the time to make copies and put them elsewhere.)
Since the day my first child was born, I have always kept my negatives grouped in envelopes (labeled w/ date and topic) in my safety deposit box. Have you ever heard of a bank vault burning? Not me. I couldn’t bear to tell my kids that all their childhood pictures were lost to fire, smoke/water damage or tornado. I also have memories of my mother who died young and all my childhood pictures. Plus all my important papers are safely tucked away w/ all my precious photos.