Here’s what I did with photos....first I took them all out of the albums. Yep! Exactly the opposite of what we spend most of our lives doing or trying to do. I weeded out the ones that weren’t important and then sorted the remainder into piles according to time-frames, locations, or people involved. Then I put them into clear plastic boxes such as those in the links below and labeled the boxes. I was then able to fit all of the plastic boxes into one large plastic tote, which I keep on the floor of a closet. It’s really easy for me to locate a photo or group of photos now and I’m amazed at how much less space they take without the albums. I agree that it would be ideal to scan them all into the computer, but that is a very time-consuming task in itself.
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