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What do you do with your photos you don't scrap?

In theory, I scrap everything in a project life kind of format which is designed to capture all kinds of photos -- even ones that aren't great technically. In reality, I'm woefully far behind so I have lots of photos on my EHDs that are waiting to be scrapped. I do make a photobook every year of the best photos of the year which we give to our families as a holiday gift (and keep one ourselves, of course). I also have a Nixplay digital frame that I LOVE and I put lots of photos to play on there.
 
I am VERY behind, and don't scrap any in one order or even semblance of order! So, I don't really have photos that don't get used (because who knows, I could still use them).

That being said, travel items get printed the most around here. If a photo didn't make it into a layout, to make it into the album...I just leave it be! I like to label all groupings of photos, and when a folder has been scrapped, I edit the title to say "DONE" so that I know not to rescrap those photos. But not every photo gets scrapped, so they just stay in their folder with the rest of them. I don't delete any GOOD photos, regardless of if I scrapped them or not. Only photos I delete are bad ones to start. I have tried to teach my girls good photography skills, so that we are limited on the bad ones.

Oh, I guess I should say all our photos, except the most recent few months, are removed from the laptop and phones onto 2 different EHDs. One is the main that I use when I scrap, the 2nd is just a backup. In 2020, when everything else was crazy...I had my laptop and my EHD fail within months of each other! I lost some photos and MANY MANY kits (it was my downloads EHD not my photos one). Since then, everything is backed up on 2 EHDs and I try to keep my laptop to just the most recent things.
 
Aussiegirl said:
Since then, everything is backed up on 2 EHDs and I try to keep my laptop to just the most recent things.
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We too have multiple backups. I have my PC, my EHD, a 2nd "side" of my PC (DH is in I.T. and he split my hard drive when he built my PC) we also subscribe to Microsoft Pro Family so we all get 1TB of cloud storage each!!!
 
We have a Google Home with a screen in the kitchen, so photos scroll through that all the time.

I print out snapshots and hang them up. Rotating them out every so often. I like the idea of a photo book of photos. That's something I could get behind.

I also share albums with friends and family through Google Photos. So, we look at them on our phones. I pull random ones for my computer desktop background. And of course, they all live backed up on my computer, hard drive and Backblaze. I've scanned all the old photos I have. So, they are all in one place, well, multiple places, but all together in those multiple backups.
 
I love the name of your yearbooks because I work for Edward Jones and we have step challenges during the year called Keeping Up with the Joneses! LOL All my photos get automatically uploaded to Google Photos, so I just download what I want to scrap to my laptop. I put my family photos in a shared album my kids can access. I've talked about this before, but sometimes Google Photos curates a slideshow of photos on a theme or spotlighting a person and that's a fun way to scrap a new page I might not have put together on my own. It sometimes picks up photos I might not have scrapped in the past. I don't scrap chronologically either.
 
I save photos all over the place and very happy for that, Icloud just lost 10 years + of my photos so I'm very happy that they are on several external disc at home too. Two of my grandkids don't want to be on the net and I respect that but Marley's mom, my daughter, is okey that she is here but not on social media anymore and I respect that too. My youngest daughter allows me to use all photos I have on her :) I use many photos for junk journals to the family and for each years calendar.
 
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