Saturday, February 26, 2011

Physical Photo Organization

So if you are not a regular follower of my blog, or missed the entry, I did a huge part of my photo project when I scanned my negatives and saved them to CD's. I have also found a way to organize my photo CD's  in a binder that I made for quick and easy access and also for backup protection. What I could not do, however, was find the motivation to go through the beach bag (yes, you heard right) of photos that were loose, in envelopes and a complete mess. At least they were all in the same place, right?! So this afternoon, I set out to get as much of this beach bag done as I could. Suprisingly, I got the whole thing emptied, and a majority of the photos sorted! I went on a major purge of photos that just didn't make the cut. Photos of places/scenery that I didn't care about, photo's of ex's (who wants a reminder of that?), any blurry photos or pixelated ones and finally the ones that shouldn't have been printed in the first place! Now all of my photos are in a photo box, organized by sections. Some include- high school, college, pregnancy, birth, baby's first year, baby's first birthday, Easter and Christmas of various years, and various months or seasons Summer 09 or October 2010. Now that they have all been put in their various sections or categories, I can pick out a section at a time to chronologically put them in order. Eventually I would like them to all make it into photo albums, but I want everything sorted and saved first. I spent about 2 hours and about 20 minutes cleaning up on this project. Something I was dreading taking hours longer. So any ideas what I should do with the beach bag? :)



9 comments:

  1. Great job! I went through my excess photos and put them in a photo box too. I still have to go through and cull some of those out, but at least they are all in one place now!

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  2. I sooo need to do this. I have tons of loose, unorganized photos as well. Thanks for the inspiration! {coming over from Org Junkie}

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  3. Wow I am so impressed with your photo accomplishment. I really need do get started on that chore.

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  4. Love your blog! I just became your newest follower! :)

    http://purplebookbloggingmommy.blogspot.com/2011/03/staying-organized-cleaning-and.html

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  5. What a great accomplishment! Are you a scrapper? I try to keep all my photos in those boxes. I have gotten a bit behind. Thanks for the motivation.

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  6. I have alot of photos from the film days that need to be organized so I feel your pain. All my digital are on cds. My husband gave me a cd file box a yr ago Christmas. I've not used it yet but will when I'm getting my computer desk space organized soon. It's on my list! Keep up the organizing process! It's work but don't ya just feel good when it's accomplished? :0)

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  7. Great job! I need to do this too. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  8. NIce, I am scared to even think about doing this.

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  9. Wow, great job! I have a huge box that I have to do that to. Not a top priority right now, just basic decluttering & organizing.

    I'm currently decluttering emails & came across this older OrgJunkie post & found you...

    So? What did you ever decide to do with the beach bag? My suggestion would be after all that hard work you should reward yourself with a trip to the beach!

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