Hi Everyone,
I was fully on the scrapbooking bandwagon approximately 15 years ago. I have who-knows-how-much money in supplies, papers, stickers, accessories, etc. I also have a silhouette machine (hardly used) and some older version of a cricut (never used). Sickening. I used to go with friends to retreats, so I do have a few vacations and other activities done. However, the majority of my photos are saved all over the cloud and various hard drives and are a disorganized, overwhelming mess. I look at the stacks of materials and feel nothing but guilt and distress, and I have even had a little fantasy that something disastrous would happen to the thousands of printed photos that I have in boxes so I can just have an excuse to tell my kids and future grandkids why there are no pictures! I want the clutter gone, but I do need to do something with the photos so my kids will have some memories!
Has anyone else been successful with a serious backlog of organizing photos? I'm hoping there are some easy ideas here. Should I just print them and unceremoniously stick them in an old-school scrapbook? Or just sell a kidney and pay for dozens of digital ones?
Thanks for any advice!
I was fully on the scrapbooking bandwagon approximately 15 years ago. I have who-knows-how-much money in supplies, papers, stickers, accessories, etc. I also have a silhouette machine (hardly used) and some older version of a cricut (never used). Sickening. I used to go with friends to retreats, so I do have a few vacations and other activities done. However, the majority of my photos are saved all over the cloud and various hard drives and are a disorganized, overwhelming mess. I look at the stacks of materials and feel nothing but guilt and distress, and I have even had a little fantasy that something disastrous would happen to the thousands of printed photos that I have in boxes so I can just have an excuse to tell my kids and future grandkids why there are no pictures! I want the clutter gone, but I do need to do something with the photos so my kids will have some memories!
Has anyone else been successful with a serious backlog of organizing photos? I'm hoping there are some easy ideas here. Should I just print them and unceremoniously stick them in an old-school scrapbook? Or just sell a kidney and pay for dozens of digital ones?
Thanks for any advice!