Keeping "real" pictures

[Karen]

I can't believe that this is a problem I'm having, but I'm wondering how others keep actual real physical pictures. Ha ha. I have school photos and sports photos for both of my boys and I don't know what to do with them. Ideally, I think I'd like to have one album to keep all of those types of pictures all in one place. Right now, I scan them (only when I own the rights to do so or just buy the CD with photo release for each photo) and just use them in my regular albums. But most of the time, they send real pictures too and I just can't throw them away. Sometimes they are 8x10, sometimes smaller like 5x7 or wallet sized. Is there a fun album with slip in pockets for something like this?

 

[bderby]

This, for me, is the beauty of how I am doing PL where I have a binder and print my PL layouts and put in page protectors. There are so many different sizes of page protectors out there, that I just include them in my PL binder. For previous years when I just have my 8x8 binders, I bought a 12x12 binder and a variety of page protector sleeves and have slipped them in. This is where I have also put pictures that other family members have sent me. Sometime I fill in little journaling cards (since I couldn't resist buying some even though I wasn't technically doing PL.

 

[rach3975]

I have one of the newer (ie, photo safe) magnetic albums that I use for professional portraits, team pictures, etc. I like that it can hold any size picture I happen to have. I tried using a pocket-style album system for a while, but I never seemed to have the sizes I needed and it got expensive to always be buying more. Not even sure that album system exists anymore; it was a Target line that I think disappeared when Project Life and similar systems became popular.

Last year I used a 12x12 binder for PL, and I did use a few different Becky Higgins page protectors for team photos and enlargements. But this year I've gone back to a post bound album that those don't fit as well in, and I'm just as happy to put them in the magnetic album.

 

[Karen]

Hmmm... I didn't know they had photo safe magnetic albums. I'll have to check into that. I was looking yesterday at a 8.5 x 11 three ring binder and the different size Becky Higgins pages that come in 8x10 and 5x7 pages. But, I agree, that might get expensive to keep buying pages for that.

Becky, this is when I wished I did PL so I could just slip them in. Lol. Maybe I'll figure out which direction I want to go and ask Santa to bring me the stuff.

 

[Celeste]

scan them and scrap them.

 

[staciahall]

I also scan them but then keep the physical photos in the kids normal scrapbook album. I just pick whatever page protector works the best, label them and put them in. I'd rather work with the scanned photos but then I think about the box of photos of my dad when he was a kid that my grandma saved. Where would I be without those REAL photos of my dad in his cap and gown?

 

[anrobe]

I'm struggling with this as well - I've added them to teh school notebooks that I make and given some to the grandparents but I still have a stack of them. They have all been digitized and I just keep staring at this stack of printed photos and wondering if I'm ever going to be OK with just throwing them away!

 

[Karen]

Well, I ended up buying a 8.5 x 11 3 ring binder this weekend at Joanns for 50% off. I also ordered some 8x10 pages to hold the bigger school photos. At least I'm not out much money and they'll all be in one place and it won't take any work for me to get them organized this way.

 

[Dalis]

I have a drawer full of photos!!!!

 

[Lynnette]

I have a simple 8.5 x 11 binder for each of my kids. I slip sports photos, school photos and a selection of school work and art work, and report cards into page protectors and call it good! It's just another form of memory keeping, albeit super simple and kind of haphazard Sounds like you are doing something similar!

 

[jaye]

I have file folders of those photos and I have a file folder of his certificates, report cards and a few cute little booklet he made in the primary grades. I think of doing something with it all but get overwhelmed and just close the drawer again.

 

[Karen]

I have file folders of those photos and I have a file folder of his certificates, report cards and a few cute little booklet he made in the primary grades. I think of doing something with it all but get overwhelmed and just close the drawer again.

This is why I want to start now before it gets too out of control! I already have filed some of these types of pictures away when my one folder for each kid gets too full. I'm going to have to dig through their put away file box each and make sure I find all those and get them in one place. I'm eagerly awaiting my album and pages to arrive in the mail. Hopefully it'll arrive soon, but 5 days later it hasn't even shipped yet. Too many people shopping online on Black Friday for them to keep up I guess!