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Originally Posted by jane032657
What does everyone do with all the pictures/phototgraphs from life when they are getting ready to move to TV? Is if my own life collection and that of my husband were not enough, my dad just died and my mother is passing away as well and I packed up all their things. I found pictures, drawers of pictures, going back to WW 2 when my dad was a medic. Keeping all the pictures seems like it will fill every nook and cranny in our new place. What do people do with multi generational pictures when they downsize?
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I've just spent days going through years and boxes of photographs from my parents, grandparents, and my own stacks and albums. Whew! As was previously mentioned, I have oodles of old pictures of family etc. that are unidentified. It's hard to pitch those because the really old sepia pictures are so interesting but they must go. I tossed out a whole album full of pix of my mother and her friends from the '40s. Sorry, Mom.
I did genealogy reports for my sons for Christmas and included pictures of everyone that I had an identifiable picture of.
My dad took pictures of
everything and to top it off, he had multiples of all developed. Throwing away 3 copies of the Thanksgiving turkey from 1984 was easy. People pictures are harder. Thank goodness there was a huge time lapse in the hard copies because he had everything made into slides for years and my younger brother is the custodian of those! And, honestly, how many pictures of my adorable children do I really need?
And then there are the scrapbook items. Good grief! Some items are interesting - the closing document from my family's first house in 1954 was one short page. Payment due: $54.00! Greeting cards are another thing. Aren't those hard to pitch, too?
Okay. I apologize for being so long winded and putting everyone to sleep. Thanks for letting me ramble.