I highly recommend you start by decluttering your old photos. The next question is how are you supposed to decide on which ones to toss?
Blurry, duplicates, or pictures you know you don’t want, need to be trashed. If you can’t bring yourself to throw them away, make a stack that your family may want.
While you are browsing through the pictures, know that if they bring you joy you should definitely keep them. Think about if you would like them displayed or in an album that guests can look at. Sometimes this can make the decluttering decision easier if you are having trouble deciding.
Sort The Printed Photos Into Groups
After you declutter all the photos, you don’t want to keep then take all the loose pictures you have and sort them into groups.
There are a few ways you can do this.
With our pictures, each family member got their own container plus I did some for vacations, pets, and a few weddings we were in.
I preferred to sort them into larger groups to make the sorting easier and because the containers store a lot of pictures.
However, if you are using smaller envelopes or have a lot of pictures you may want to organize them into smaller categories.
Another way to go about organizing printed photos is sorting them by year. This is an easy way if you are just dealing with a few years worth of photos.
If you are dealing with 30-plus years of photos, it may be harder to sort them into years.
You can choose a way that works best for the photos that you have.
Organizing the printed photos into groups takes the most time, but can also be fun. I had a good time looking through all of our photos.
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