Sorting pictures

24 years ago

I am starting to sort my pictures. I bought boxes and was wondering what and how many catorgories do you use to sort your pictures. I was thinking maybe holidays (ie: xmas, thanksgiving etc), vacations , birthdays events (ie parties, graduations) Do you have any other catorgories? TIA

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Penny
24 years ago
I have a couple for you, my children had TONS of cousins, grandmas, grandpas, uncles, aunts, etc.. So I made a category for each of these plus these others: Pets, school trips & photos, Friends - a category for each child, sports, house, cars, weddings, garden, work, church, and last but not least a category for: Who is this person?, I have needed this often, and have filed a picture away in it until someone can identify the person for me. Hope this helps. Penny
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pam
24 years ago
I have a 'book worthy' catagory. You know pics, you want in your book but don't know where. I sort those last to make different themes from them. Then spread them throughout the book. Sort of like commercials.LOL!
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Mar Ontario Canada
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Rosemary
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Mar the diamond thingy sounds great. Think I'll try it. Judy I have a lot of pictures of birthday cakes. How would you journal that page. Also just starting out I don't have notes on the back of the photos. Do you guess and if that fails make somthing up? LOL All these ideas are wonderful thanks alot and keepem comming. Rosemary
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