(never admit guilt)
who could possibly use intervention...
(possibly. I'd rather everyone be wrong and there be no need for intervention)
and most likely seeks advice.
(from people whose opinions matter than those whom I am living with)
When someone mails you photos of their children,
who are easily 10-15 years older than when you saw them last,
do you save those photos?
Where do you put them?
In a book?
In a frame?
What if your own children photos sit in a hard drive somewhere in the grand company of 40,000 other photos?
I just left the dinner table after receiving a thorough ribbing from the Husband.
He seems to think that my photographic accumulation is a problem.
What do you think? Where is the cut off for too many photos?
I may be a hoarder...
i'm packing my whole house right now & i'm running into all the pics people have sent me of their kids over the years & i've decided that unless it's my own kid or a special pic of a kid who i really love, like nieces, best friends kids, then it goes in the trash. i've got enough aka, too many, pics of my own kid to be keeping pics of anyone else's.
ReplyDeletePics of MY kids go in Ikea frames and are displayed going up the stairway. As for other's kids, I'm with Sherilin, after one year on the 'Picture Board' and then if it isn't a cousin, niece or nephew, it gets binned.
ReplyDeleteHugs and quiches from Kitty
My husband has an aversion to picture frames (some residual baggage from his previous marriage)...we bought a digital frame, it holds thousands of pics, and only one hole in the wall.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they have to be scanned into the computer first...I really should do that.
You're not alone...and men are weird.
I have frames with the kids' pics up my stair wall too. The computer is also full to bursting and the loft has too many old albums and boxes of photos in it. There really isn't a cut off point, is there?
ReplyDeleteHe's just giving you a hard time because he's leaving soon. Give him a big hug and kiss and tell him you love him and will miss him too. :)
ReplyDeleteDon't ask me how many is too many, I'm pretty sure I'll never know as I have the same problem!!
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry that this affliction has spread to you. You see I have that problem and I may have infected you. I am so sorry!!
ReplyDeleteHa!
I have four rolling storage towers filled with slides and prints!!
Yikes!
Then several scrap books worth and a large drawer and...and...well you get the picture!! Sigh!!
Good luck
Hugs
SueAnn
PS There is no cure....sorry bout that!!
Every kitchen cupboard door is plastered with photo's over here - and hundreds of the framed variey have taken over virtually every other surface and wall in the rest of the house - oh, and I keep it all on hard-drive too, just in case (well you never know when you might want a copy, do you?)..
ReplyDeleteI think it could be much worse. Have him give me a ring, I'll set him straight!
ReplyDeleteI hoard photos too but I have most of mine in photo albums so the hubby actually appreciates them and doesn't mind me taking so many pics. I usually try not to keep the photos I take of a million different flowers or trees or landscapes and such(they are on my computer tho). My mom always had boxes of photos in random order and it always bugged me that I couldn't find a photo I wanted so I guess that is why I am so crazy about keeping albums. It is another reason why I had shelves built in my "library". For all my photo albums.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine sorting through 40,000 pics but you may have to start somewhere. Egad. Good luck with that! ;)
And you need to tell your hubby that there are worse things in life (like being deployed a million times). And definitely worse things to hoard than pictures (like stuffed animals. or candles. or those people who do extreme couponing- I think that is hoarding. or cocaine. HA!)
I keep finding pictures all over the place. I used to say I would start a better system to keep those pix organized. Now I know better. No amount is ever enough - even if you can't find them.
ReplyDeleteI go the hard drive route. But sometimes I will put them in a virtual frame.
ReplyDeleteAfter living with a garage door on my ceiling for 15 years I am absolutely no help whatsoever. During this move I have found pics of children I don't even know!! Now theres an odd feeling!
ReplyDeleteLisaLoo: Garage door on the ceiling??? My mind boggles. Why have you done this?
ReplyDeleteKind regards, Kitty
My grandma just sent me a pic of my nephew from 1987! I think she meant to send it to my sister, but what am I going to do with it now? I can't throw it away...
ReplyDeleteSandy
www.twelvemakesadozen.blogspot.com
Mom of 12: Send it to your Sister!
ReplyDeleteI harbor so much guilt about tossing pics, esp. of my kids. Even other people's kids. I just don't know how you part company with some things. I feel you pain Jeri.
ReplyDeleteNo such thing as too many photos of your kids! Of course, my blog has become my photo album- you know, incase the photos get misplaced or destroyed! I keep the photos of my nephews and nieces in a box with old cards. It's hard to believe they are all in their 30's now! Wait a minute...how old am I now?
ReplyDeleteI recently lost most of my pictures, so I say, Hoard Away!
ReplyDelete~FringeGirl