Photo Albums...?

[AKL_Megs]

Do YOU use them?

I was discussing with my MIL my need to head to Costco to get about 300 prints and two SD cards worth of pictures printed.


My MIL proceeded to tell me how she doesn't understand why people waste their time and money making prints when they can save everything on their computers, or use digital frames. She said, "Who looks at their photo albums anyways?"

She said that photo albums are obsolete!

I didn't argue with her...

But still, I have many photo albums, and on rainy/snowy days, or when the mood strikes, I will bring out a photo album and "remember when". You just can't get that same feeling on the computer.

And... 30 years ago, we didn't have computers, so who is to say that we will STILL have them in another 30 years!

I'll keep on printing and stuffing my prints in photo albums.

How about you?

 

[Lisa_M]

I hardly print pictures, but I really should. The last pictures I had printed were DD's 1st month pictures and the professional ones we had taken. My MIL gets hers printed a lot.

DD really enjoys looking through our photo albums, so I think I'm going to get some printed. This week I'll go through our pics for printing.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I started doing the Snapfish books once in awhile. Nice to have a hardcover & I agree I don't get the warm & fuzzies from the computer.

 

[RadioNate]

If you could see my house you'd know that I wholeheartedly disagree with your MIL!

Not only do I have run of the mill photo albums, I have SCRAPBOOKS!

The good news, is that I'm not an out of control scrapbooker but I want my kids to have some record of their life and have some record of mine.

I love the digital photobooks you can get from Shutterfly or MyPublisher or wherever. Those are great for me. All the photos are there and I get to caption and journal them.

I have all my grandparents photos on both sides and so many stories have been lost. I can't identify 1/2 the people or why that photo was important.

It is sad to me that all that history was just thrown in a shoebox.

So I record it and then my kids will have it to show their kids...or they will throw it in the trash.

 

[AKL_Megs]

If you could see my house you'd know that I wholeheartedly disagree with your MIL!

LOL! Glad to see I am not alone!!!

 

[DisneyBlonde]

I have a ton of older pictures that I'm trying to figure out how to organize. I'm not a big fan of albums (remember the sticky kind from the 70's that ruined all our pictures?). I kind of like the idea of photo boxes, and grouping the photos by subject.

The photos that I have are precious to me since my mom passed last year. But we haven't had any photos printed since probably 2004. They are on DH's hard drive and also on webshots and photobucket.

 

[daisyduck123]

I'm a scrapbooker.

My albums are absolutely gorgeous. I make a scrapbook of every WDW vacation. Not a week goes by that I don't look at at least one of them.

I think photo ALBUMS are becoming a little obsolete because they are rather "boring" as compared to scrapbooks. With scrapbooks, the journaling (writing things down, telling who is who in each pic, etc. ) are just as important as the pics themselves. I have run many "workshops" with my friends so that they could get started on the hobby.

 

[NMAmy]

I've made scrapbooks since I was a little kid. I have a great one from a trip to California in 1976. I had forgotten that airlines used to give you a little menu when you flew! I have a placemat with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as the Spirit of '76. And yes, I do print all our photos and we look at them pretty often. And my dd will have a record of her childhood.

When we switched to digital, I started putting the pictures on cd and then I put the cd in the last page of the scrapbook. But honestly, things have changed technologically so much and so quickly--I don't want to have to worry about transferring my photos to another medium in order to view them in the future. We got my parents' home movies put on video. Now we'll have to transfer them to dvd. It's a pain.

 

[december]

I love my albums and scrapbooks! Dd9 and I look through them all the time. And I usually order 2 sets of everything when I order prints (love Kodakgallery.com) and give a set to my parents. We lost a house over 8 yrs ago in a fire (lost everything), and that was before everything was online. I lost so many albums and pics. Thankfully, my mother had a copy of many (but not all) of my favorites, so I got alot back.

I actually just picked up some Tink and Princess stickers at Dollar Tree this morning to use in the new baby's 1st trip scrapbook, and we aren't going until next summer!