That’s a phrase that sounds normal coming out of someone else’s mouth, but it doesn’t feel normal coming from me. “I’ve been working in my yard a lot lately.” It’s easier to say, “I don’t want that” to something you don’t yet have than it is to something already in your possession.When you’re decluttering, taking a “before picture” is so helpful. Now you can see, before you buy, whether you’ve taken a picture of your thumb or someone’s eyes are closed or you’ve got six practically identical images of the same person or thing. You were invested, even if the whole roll was a flop. With film cameras, you never knew what you were going to get until you saw the printed results, at which point, you had already paid for the service of having them printed. Not least among them, I try think, is the fact that you can exercise discernment before it becomes a physical reality. I’m sure there are a lot of psychological reasons for this. It is interesting how much easier it is to delete digital images. That’s one reason we focused on the not so good ones. Even though we may have far more than we need of a particular event, or there may be some than are very similar, it seems wrong to just toss out a perfectly good photo. Digital photos are just images on a screen, whereas printed photos are tangible. But I also think there is just a reality factor. For some, at least, it may be the cost factor. I think you may be on to something with regard to the difficulties of discarding printed photos. It would seem that Scrappy the Calico was a particular favorite of Mom's as we have at least 50 photos of her lazing about when three to five especially cute images are more than enough to create a scrapbook page to remember her by. The result was an inordinate number of images of the same cat. I mentioned that my mother loved photographing her animals. In some cases, we each opted to keep a copy of an image, but for the most part, one copy was enough. It's also true that back in the days of printing photos from negatives, people often chose to print duplicates with the intent of sharing. In our case, we opted to choose our favorite images and get rid of the ones we didn't like as well. While this is sometimes desirable for documenting the progression of an event, it is often just redundant. Often there are several that are extremely close in terms of subject matter and detail, having been taken a few seconds apart. One thing I have discovered as I have started scrapbooking is that I often have more photos of an event than I really want or need. Otherwise, we would constantly be asking one another "What about this one?"įortunately, we had no trouble agreeing on the types of photos we were comfortable throwing away. It quickly became apparent that some of the photos were not worth keeping, and I realized that we needed to agree on the criteria we would use for determining which photos to keep and which ones to toss out. Once again, my sister and I pulled out the big box of photos and started searching for our favorites of Dad. Throughout this ongoing process of photo sorting, I have been getting rid of pictures, but it wasn't until my sister and I were working on the big box that a sort of methodology formed in my brain. Most recently, my stepfather passed away. As part of this process, I have also been removing photos from old magnetic albums and putting them in scrapbooks. This includes all of the photos I inherited from my mother. Then, after finishing the mammoth task of writing a book with my husband, I decided to begin tackling a project I have been procrastinating for years (if not decades) - scrapbooking all the loose photos from the pre-digital camera days. Along with my sister, husband, and two of my children we sorted through boxes of old photos searching for our favorites to create a tribute to our mother/grandmother. In the past year, I have spent a lot of time sorting through old photographs.įirst, my mother passed away in June of 2021.
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