The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

[freshstart]

Today my mom and I dragged a medium Rubbermaid container full of photos upstairs and went through all of them. Many many many of them went in the garbage. I've kept some of myself as a baby, nice ones of my parents and grandparents when they were younger, and some creepy old black and white ones of my grandparents and great grandparents. We don't think we'll regret getting rid of them, especially since we don't look through them, well, hardly ever. Now this container that needed two people to carry it can easily be picked up by one.

Wish we did this before we moved. A lot of the envelopes were full of negatives!

What are you going to do with those you kept? Keep them in the bin or make albums? That's where I get stuck. Maybe photo boxes with dividers so then you just flip through all the pics?

[pony mom]

I may do that. I'm planning on going through them again and culling some more. Luckily most of the baby pics are dated so I can keep those in some sort of order.

They are all in many different sizes: large thick ones on cardboard, black and white square ones with scalloped borders, 126-camera size, 35mm sized, and those stiff polaroids. We also have about eight boxes of slides; luckily we gave my cousin our little viewer so we'll be able to check these out too.

It was a bit sad letting them go, but we enjoyed seeing them. If we didn't do this today, we probably never would have looked at them again, as the task seemed so daunting.