slo’s WEDNESDAY 4/9 poll - Photo Albums

[slo]

Photo Albums are such a nice way to display photos, but they aren’t very popular now. At one time, most of us would develop our photos and then put them in a photo album so we could show those pictures to others. Today, many of us put our photos on social media to show others or many show people from a device (phone, tablet or computer). What inspired this poll today, is the 2025 WDW photo album sitting here waiting for photos, of which I need to pick up at Walgreens after work. So tell me if others are like me and still enjoy a photo album to display photos…..

Do you still currently use a photo album to display photos?
If yes….have you used a photo album in the last 5 years?
If yes….when was the last time in 5 years?
(multiple choice)



For Me…….Currently, the only time I use photo albums are for vacation pictures. I prefer showing people my photos from an album, instead of my phone or tablet. I think it’s nicer for the person looking at the photos too. I will use a photo album for special occasions when they happen in the future, like when/if my DD21 gets married one day. In regards to the last 5 years…..I’ve used one in 2025, 2023 and 2021 (all WDW photo albums)

 

[Kitty 34]

I keep all my photos on some cloud thing my son set up but I also have many many hand held albums from the past. I love my pics!!!!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I remember photo albums! It has been sooooooo long since I have seen/held one. I know there is a stack of them at my dad's house. We don't have any here, seems like everything is digital now.

I am so old I remember carrying around those "brag books" (I think that's what they were called) back in the day.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I have a ton of photo albums and would have more but my computer which had a bunch of pics on it I was planning i’m getting developed to put in a photo album crashed and I cannot get the photos off of it nor can I find the photo cards that had the photos so I lost about four trips worth of photos these were really big trips with lots of photos and I really have not taken many pics since then but I do have several photo albums full of pics I enjoy looking at photo albums versus looking at them on a phone
I’m very confident that I’m going to find those cards and be able to find those photos it’s a process

 

[Meriweather]

So many photo and scrapbooks.
I used to scrap everything, now only grand kids (one a year) and family vacations.
The rest go into photo albums.
And all are saved on an external hard drive.

 

[lanejudy]

I have many old photo albums, but haven’t put pics in one for over a decade. I almost never get prints made, it’s all digital now.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

I have photo albums and I am filling one currently for my 32yr old son.
It all started back in Feb with the sudden passing of my 57 yr old cousin and her family going thru alot of photos and they divided them by families and gave them to us at the luncheon.

If I don't put these in an album, how else are those specific pictures going to keep those memories alive for him. It's been a somewhat sad, painful process ( many relatives have now died) but there does come a time when looking thru photo albums gives a special kind of comfort. It proves we belong to a family.

 

[ronandannette]

I can’t remember the last time I printed pictures and compiled a photo album and I don’t see myself doing it in the future. Over the past 10 or more years, sadly the only time we’ve pulled out pictures/albums is to compile memorial tributes for loved ones’ funerals. I must say it is a heartwarming thing to be able to go back and see them though and I’m a little sorry the practice has all but completely fallen away.

 

[jo-jo]

Way back when lie went fire was invented, you could send out a roll of film, x amount for one print, x plus 5 % for two prints. We got 2 prints. Not knowing what anything looked, we still ordered two prints. About 10-15 years ago, I found a bin with tons of prints. I went thru them........put them in piles....DS, DD and don't have the slightest idea what this is. Gave the copies to the kids, told them , do what they want with them.. I may have some in an album somewhere. Tossed the third group.


We are pretty much like Kitty 34 now.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I have all my pictures in albums however I have moved to creating them digitally rather than in print.

Fifty years from now our media won't be the same and may not be able to access electronic items.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I haven't placed photos in an album for many years. I used to be heavily into scrapbooking our Disney trips though- but I haven't done that in years. I love looking at my old family photo albums from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and I find it sort of sad that the generations to come won't really have this pleasure.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I have many old photo albums but haven't added to them in years.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I have a number of old photo albums, boxes and boxes of old pictures, and even some rolls of film from the early to mid 2000s that I never got around to developing. Once everything shifted digital, I fully embraced the transition. If anything, I am hoping to find a time when I can go through all of those physical photos and transition them to digital. I'm just not sure when that will be due to schedule demands and the emotional challenge of reflecting on the passage of time. Nearly everything I've taken in the last decade and a half is stored on a cloud service...easily over 100,000 pictures. While I know family of ours always liked to keep pics and albums on display, I tried for a while and it's just not my thing.

 

[NAB]

I have so many photo albums.

I get a family picture done every Christmas and have a scrap book type book I put them in . They are all 8x10 . Love looking thru the books I have. Started when my first was born he is turning 28 this year.

I have 2 kids and I have already split the albums up for each so when I’m gone they will just take their books won’t have to go though thousands of pictures…lol

The only other pictures I have are cruise pictures of my husband and I but we haven’t brought many of those for years.

I always loved pictures, I’m the one at holidays and stuff that takes lots of pictures of my siblings and family. Everyone comes to me for pictures I might have taken.

 

[soccerdad72]

We haven't done them in years now. My wife used to do a Shutterfly album with every vacation we would do, but we're way behind on that. She's talked about trying to get some done of the last couple big vacations we've taken, but there's a lot of catching up to do.

We have some "old school" photo albums with actual printed pictures from our early trips to WDW and other vacations, but haven't done anything like that in probably 15+ years.

 

[fla4fun]

It depends. If I go on a once in a lifetime trip or take photos of a special event, even today I may either get the photos printed for a photo album or get one of those photo books made. Occasionally, if I take a particularly good photo, I may have it enlarged and framed. Otherwise, they are organized and saved on external storage to keep memory open on the devices.

 

[Micca]

DW curates photos in albums, annotated and decorated with stickers, they are really nicely done. I don't know that I have ever looked at them, nor has anyone else in the family. I think the hope is that one day our grandkids will be able to look through them, maybe with their own children.

 

[tvguy]

I literally put together a photo album just two weeks ago. Photos of my 65 Mustang as it was before, during and after restoration. Had the car 9 years and finally got around to assembling the album. Yes there are pictures online, but those are useless at "Cars and Coffee" and other car events. Many have photo albums of their project cars progress on display with the car.
And we have an elderly friend who enjoys seeing pictures of our Grandkids, so we frequently have them printed at Walgreens. She does zero social media or computer use, so that isn't even an option.
Digital storage is great, until something happens. So have your photos stored digitally in more than one place. My daughter is overseas and is locked out of her Facebook page. Facebook won't let her in. They will give her access, but they will only send the link to gain access to the e-mail on file, and that e-mail account she hasn't had access to for 15 years. When she comes for a visit she hopes her log in is cached on the computer she left here to retrieve photos she wants off Facebook. Or I can copy them as I can see her page.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I have done a few Shutterfly photobooks, last one was of Christopher's 8th grade graduation last year. I guess I will be doing another soon, for Jeremy's high school graduation in a few weeks. Before that, last one was from my WDW trip with Natalie and the kids' first trip back in 2013. Thousands digitally, almost none printed. Sad.

 

[cabanafrau]

Haven't used a photo album since younger DD's senior year of HS, almost ten years now. Can't think of the last pictures I had physically printed even.

Ironically I was just talking with my daughters about photo albums recently in relation to a craft project they had been working on. Back in the day I remember getting nice quality, hardcover photo albums from the dollar store with really pretty covers on them that I used for so many things beyond just photo albums. I was even buying them to cut up and used the photo pockets for identifying their garment bags for dance costumes for competitions and recitals.

Their eyebrows shot up well past their foreheads when I asked if they'd seen any photo albums at the dollar store these days. Uh, no, mom, that's not a thing anymore.