Thanks so much, Jeri! When I first tried to post, the photos were not visible, so I thought perhaps the album had to be public, but I'm glad it isn't so. Actually, it was viewing your breath-taking slide show that put the doubt in my mind. Those are seriously gorgeous flowers! What a terrible shame that the heat cooked your roses!! I am truly sorry, hopefully things will get back into a more "normal" seasonal trend soon. Thanks again! MayBee

I have the same problem and have "kind of" targeted this year to get them organized. I'm not ready to scan or digitalize, but am ready to prioritize and downsize. I agonized over the many photos I also inherited upon the death of my mother--SHE had boxes from her aunts and cousins who died before--I had gone through a few with her in the last years of her life and so was able to identify some of her friends and relatives, but there are still gobs of old-time photos of folks I don't know and there is now no one alive who knows or cares--my mother did not even know all of them. Still there is some kind of emotional pull that someone someday may want to see that photo taken in World War II or whatever. What's helping me is that I can't imagine my kids would experience it so differently, and I expect they too would just feel the burden passed on--that vague what do I do with these? thing that nags you because "photos" are special and harder to throw away. So far my plan is to save and label, and frame, our closest relatives, make 2 or 3 albums of "my" relatives, particularly with my brother and I as children with them--as these would be the ones that mean the most to me and might be amusing to my kids. That way, they would not inherit boxes! I still have years of our own nuclear family photos in boxes and again, I hope to mainly "albumize" just a few shots of each event and thin out the rest to keep some photo box storage; occasionally someone wants a photo for a project.

I'm awful - 90% of the time I just don't even take pictures (just don't think about it). LOL People get over it though...after they finish being annoyed that no, I can't show them pictures of that trip because I didn't take any, and no, there aren't any pictures from me of my hubby dressed up as a french maid this halloween. ;-) My mom does the one on top the other in the frame thing. My sis and I bought her a few really nice frames, and she just puts the most recent pictures on top, with the others still in the frame below. Saves photo album space and shelf space. I am the "keeper" of the family photo albums (ironically enough), so I have the photo albums (all 2 of them, the thin magnetic albums) that have my parent's wedding pictures and early family pictures from the 70's & before in them. They mostly sit languishing on a shelf, though I did get into one for a baby pic my sis needed of herself for work recently. Other than that, no one looks at them. When I went to Paris, I took all my pictures digitally, and bought postcards everywhere I went. So my scrapbook from that trip is very simple - my postcards, and my favorite digital pics printed out and pasted in the scrapbook, along with brochures, etc. No fancy stuff, just the stuff I got in paris. The rest of the pictures were deleted, and I don't miss them at all. 5 of my favorite postcards are in a very nice frame that I have hanging on the wall (one frame for all 5). It does me no good to post pics online for family - most of my relatives really aren't "online" as per se - they'd rather have a "real" copy sent in the christmas card or whatever. I did send a wedding pic with our announcements - our other wedding pictures were done by the parents, and my MIL got a small photo album and put prints of the digitals in there, I just added the "real" prints my dad took, and that's that - no fuss, no muss, and it's small (5x7 album), so it takes up very little room. :-) For grandkids, my grandma has 22 (I think?). A couple years ago, all of the aunts & uncles got together and bought a huge frame, and had a mat cut that would fit pictures of all of them, plus all the grandkids. One frame, all those pictures. Now when Grandma gets new pictures, she just has to put the new one in that frame, and everything is in one place...no tons of pictures on the wall anymore. :-) I have very few family photos actually framed and sitting out - a wedding pic from my sis (because thier expressions are hilarious, and it makes me laugh), a professional picture of my parents, and one from my grandparent's 50th anniversary. Anything else I get just gets tossed in a magnetic photo album - no fuss or anything else. That's where my wedding cards are headed too, very soon. :-) I would suggest you just keep some magnetic photo albums on hand, and when you get those cute little photos, stick them right in the album, and don't worry about anything else. Or get one of those huge frames and a mat cut with room for each grandchild, so you can have them all in one place. That will be easiest for you, and much easier on your walls! ;-)

Right, you make your pages and slide them in. THose are built in page protectors.