Ded I was thinking about this and I am wondering if you could just take a big poster board or something like that and tape or staple all the pieces of paper on a category on them. You'd have several poster boards but at least it would be relatively in one place. Then you could take a photograph of them to have them whenever you wish to look at them as you go about your day. It's a thought anyway. I buy poster boards for various things and I also get those large desk calendars and use the backs of the paper for various things so that's what made me think of it.

Richard, Mo - yeah, I need something like a meta-data tag that I can alter per file, quickly and easily. Then search and sort by tags, and various configurations of tags. It could/should be more complex than renaming a file, but simpler than Foobar's display capabilities. Maddie, I played with my search function and it's less than I want. For instance, I can search on "daffodil" and get lots of pics of yellow flowers. But I can't search on "yellow" or "yellow flower" or "flower yellow" -- I get a null result for those terms. I could make up an album scheme but then I'd have to drag/drop or click/paste each time I put a pic in an album. So if I had albums for yellow, flowers, landscapes, national parks, insects ... one picture of a daisy with a butterfly on it in the park overlook would go in five albums. [edited to add: still one picture file, not five picture files, but that's still more clicking than I want to do.] I'd rather have one big tag field that I could type those words into, and later search on them. Dedtired, what do you mean by keeping photos in categories? Is that the same, or different, than folders aka albums?

JJ, when you put the photos into a different format and when you singled out the photos, they came into focus for others. That is one of the values that you get from both culling out the insignificant ones and organizing the reamaining ones. The importance or the significance of what is left comes into much sharper focus. I am in the middle of culling and organizing our photos and I it has become evident to me that much value and appreciation is stuck in oblivion when the photos are a mess in boxes. They must be curated and organized to tell the story. If not, they are like a bowl of alphabet soup with letters that don't spell anything. I had started a post about organizing photos, if you are interested. One example is that we had a box of photos that FIL had brought home from WWII. They had been languishing in a box that was casually shoved into a drawer and mostly forgotten about. I took them and put then into a small book and placed the book on the dining table. Hubs picks it up and finds himself absolutely drawn into them as if he is seeing them for the first time. That is not the case, He knew about them. He had just forgotten about them because they have been hidden in a drawer in a box for so long. After composing them in a book and noting the inscriptions that FIL wrote on the back, they have become a personal story of a young man who turned 19 years old and arrived for D Day one day later. He was but a boy when he went to be a part of a tank crew in Europe. This is his story and now it has been revealed for us to share. I think that it is priceless and to think that it lingered untold for so long. He told us his story and we just relegated it to a hidden box. I find that to be rather sad in retrospect. In organizing our photos, I have gained and experienced some revelations and realizations of who and where we have come from and who lurks in the heritage of my grand children. Life's moments and lives that have gone have come forward and I am truly enjoying the journey. It is important to cull out the debris so that you can see the value of what you have. I have yet to discard the rejects. They will get one more pass through before they go out. In my estimation, I have rejected somewhere around one third of what was being kept.maybe a bit more than that. Now, the remaining ones are being divided into two collections, one for each of our grown children. I plan to keep none for us. I want to hand them down to my kids in a format that they can be seen in. I don't want to pass down a mess of stuff that has no voice. After the photos are taken care of, I plan to include some genealogy documents in the pages. It seems a perfect compliment to the photos and will explain some of them. I have also made sure that the kids have all the information that they need after I am gone and not have to go searching for bank accounts, revolving charges on credit cards or any of the stuff that they are going to need to know. I even have a document of all my passwords for any forum or bank account, etc.

Hi! I’m currently in college and will be moving into my first apartment. the bathroom is fairly small, but i’m looking to make it cozier. I am looking for decor advice as well as any organizational recommendations to keep the space open and cute. I have attached an image of the bathroom and my current plans for it, which are pretty plain for now.