slo’s WEDNESDAY 4/9 poll - Photo Albums

[Lumpy1106]

I have used Shutterfly to put together a book of photos from trips and I do recommend that. Photo albums though - I will caution you;
I just got done helping DM clear out her house to put on the market. She had not only her photo albums, but also the photo albums she inherited from DGM. What a massive burden those things are! You don't want to throw any of them out but she now has dozens, maybe even > 100 of these albums and nowhere to put them. The most rational solution seems to be to digitize the pics and throw out the albums - but then what? Pay to keep them stored in the cloud forever? Who is ever going to look at them?

 

[Diznygrl]

I have many photo albums from the past but I don't think I've had new photos in physical form since I got my first digital camera in 2006. I haven't really had the need to print any out. Sad, but true.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love photo albums!! I used to be a big scrapbooker when DS was little, but I don't keep up very well now.

I have done a couple of pages this year, though, and I have some other photos ready to put in.

I really enjoy looking at the books I have.

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

I am terrible about this, but my wife has been making a conscious effort to get our photos printed and putting them in an album a lot for the last couple years. We went to WDW with our moms January 2024 and we have a lovely album of the whole thing, including my DMIL asleep on the bus back from MK.

So I have to thank my DW for our lovely albums.

 

[RangerPooh]

I upload mine to Facebook. I do t even have my wedding album on display. The last photo album I had printed was before my 4th child was born.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Dad and I God willing next month when I'm back to normal health will add photos of happy memories together to our joint scrapbook. I also have some greeting cards on scrapbook pages. I prefer a physical photo to looking at one saved on a phone or computer. What matters is the blessing of the time the photo shows not its format

 

[NC Belle]

I miss my personal photo albums and they will hopefully be getting them by summer. I lost some of my digital photos due to various reasons.

 

[DodgerGirl]

My mom has about three or four photo albums of our family and the biggest one we have has my very first baby photo and some of my other baby photos and Mom and I looked through that album so much the cover is torn and the spine is falling apart. My mom's second photo album has photos of my family's Disneyland vacations and I love looking through that album a lot since it has me interacting with characters and I was about nine when those photos were taken in that album. But these days I think family photo albums got out of style when Kodak invented photo CDs that you created by taking your film to the store getting it developed and then while the photos were being developed the store clerk would ask you if you wanted the photos on a CD and you took the CD and put it in your computer and you had you had your photos. Once Kodak Photo CDs became popular the trend of digital photos took off like a rocket. And family albums became a thing of the past. And the only time that you will see photo albums is at memorial services and funerals where they are referred to as memory albums and are usually placed next to the family guestbook and also they use photo albums at high school graduations to give students. But do you remember a mail order photo company where you could mail your film and they would develop your photos and then once they were finished the photos were mailed back to you and I think the company was named York Photo Lab?

 

[loves to dive]

I used to have tons of them and have slowly been scanning all the pictures and storing them on my computer (or actually on Hubby's server). We have two of the digital picture frames that cycle through specific ones we've chosen. We have been talking about getting one of the ones that are internet based but just haven't gotten around to it. A year ago at Christmas my son and his SO gave me an annual album that she would send digital pictures to the service and they sent printed pictures to me every month and it came with a little memory book to put them in. I took pictures of all of them with my phone and uploaded them to the server but also put them in the book. I do use it sometimes to show family pictures of her but since they aren't recent, I don't show it very often. I don't keep many pictures on my phone, mostly just ones they send me of her.

 

[lilmc]

I held on to my film camera longer than most because I knew the change to digital would result in less actual photos. I predicted no one would sit and look through pics anymore, so when we finally switched to a digital camera I made a promise to myself that I would keep up with photo albums and I have. I’ve done Snapfish or Shutterfly for all our family pics, not just big vacations. Sometimes I get behind by a few months, but we have a large family reunion every summer that keeps me from slipping too behind because I put the photo books on the coffee table so distant family members can flip through and keep caught up with our family.

 

[DodgerGirl]

Does anyone remember a photo album called a Showbox? Showboxes were battery operated photo albums where you put a battery in it and some photos and you pressed a button and your photos would be displayed and then the Showbox would show the next photo and so on. I remember seeing these Showboxes at Macy's in the 90's and I thought Showboxes were neat photo albums

 

[PollyannaMom]

Does anyone remember a photo album called a Showbox? Showboxes were battery operated photo albums where you put a battery in it and some photos and you pressed a button and your photos would be displayed and then the Showbox would show the next photo and so on. I remember seeing these Showboxes at Macy's in the 90's and I thought Showboxes were neat photo albums

I don't remember a battery-powered one, but I did have a frame that you put a whole stack if pictures in and then you slid the side out and back to change it as often as you liked - it somehow grabbed one photo and shuffled it to the back / brought the next one forward.