If we had a fire in our house, I’d grab my passport, kids and photos. (Not in that particular order!) So clearly photos are precious to me yet I spend the least amount of organizing time on them. (Sound familiar?) Likely, because our disorganized pics don’t disrupt our day to day lives. We can keep shoving them into boxes and closets…and just shut the door.
But it is important to organize and preserve these meaningful memories. So what’s the first step in this organization nightmare? Purging. That’s right, get your urge to purge on, because if you follow my rules for purging pics, you could cut your collection in half. Watch my short video to see how it’s done. Plus, see me in the 80’s and 90’s. Like, Oh My God! You may want to sit down for this one!
Which are the hardest photos for you to part with? Let me know in the reply box below. At the very least, please tell me you have pics that are as scary as mine!! 🙂
As always, thanks for your support! xoxo,
Mridu
Hi Mridu!
As always… Great video!
I hate having too many pictures as well….
But… I have a challenge for you.
I have 15 or 20 albums that captured the years of my wedding until the birth of my first child.
The pictures are as edited as I like…. But they are all in albums that take up a lot of room.
I would like to edit them… But it would be a pain to rip apart each album.
Any easy suggestions?
Thanks again for your helpful and very enjoyable videos!
Xoxo – nim
Hey Nim,
I so hear you about the room that traditional photo albums take. It’s just too much! That was one of the main reasons I switched to digital books…they literally take up 1/4 the space (in some cases even less). You have a few options for converting your traditional albums. You can take out all your pics, get them scanned in (I can even do this for you!), and them upload them to a digital book. Or if they are scrapbooked (pasted down), you can send to a company called ScanDigital, where they can scan each page, send them to you digitally and then you can create a digital photo book from there. Either way, it will take some work (and cost) but I promise it is well worth it!
Thanks for all your support! xoxo, Mridu
My photo issue is without question the multiple shots of the single event. And by “event” I mean things like Henry at age 2 eating a carrot. [!] Sometimes I can just delete-delete-delete. But the problem I have with cutting the shots from, say, the semifinal 6 to a more manageable 2 is that each smile is a little different, and I love each one… I think Im frightened to think about losing the connection to those far-away moments that made the fabric of life. There is no way to recall the details that are captured by the different images without each one, and one of the reasons I go back to old pictures is that it shows me that fabric, it shows me a story that gives me a backdrop to whatever surprises the present has on offer. Henrys many smiles at 2, even with the same carrot, help offset the confused scowls at 13. So really, my relation to these past images has everything to do with this particular moment of viewing and editing…
Sara, dont know how I missed this on Friday. That is a beautiful way to think about your photos. I really resonate with capturing the details of every single shot. Its not easy to choose!
A way to think about purging photos is not simply getting it down to that “1 or 2” but maybe keeping 10% of your “like” shots. So if youre taking 25 photos of an event, deleting 20, (and keeping 5 or 6), is really very good! Bottom line is that if you are keeping similar photos, but each one is evoking a distinct memory or feeling, keep them. But if thats not the case, then see if you can pare them down further. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love hearing from you. -mridu