Is this the current state of your photographs?

Are you overwhelmed with the number of photographs you have stacked on your desk or thrown in your drawer?  Or worse yet, do you have a ton of unprinted pictures sitting on your computer.

I received a comment in Monday’s post about “memory keeping” becoming more of a chore.  This really got me thinking.  There was a time when I really enjoyed “scrapping” my photographs.  My daughter has some gorgeous pages in her scrapbook album.

I love these layouts, but let me tell you, they took forever to plan and implement.  Now that I am on child number 3 in four years, I have very little free time (if any).  I still want each of my children to have a written and illustrated record of their childhood.  I am so thankful that my mother wrote down information about all of my milestones as a young child.  I now have this list and reference it with my children.

So, What do you do to get started?  Every Wednesday we will take a step towards better organizing our photos/ memories and getting them in an album or scrapbook.  As we get busier, the photographs pile up and organizing them becomes more of a chore and less fun.  Let’s get things under control so we can enjoy our photographs once more.

For today, let’s start really simple.

1.  Start an album from today on.  Right now forget about all of those unorganized photos.  Let’s make sure we document everything from this point on.  I love the albums they have at Exposures.  They are a bit pricey.  Your local Michaels has a great selection of albums- make sure you use a 40% off coupon to make the deal that much sweeter

(An album I purchased from Michael’s .)

So, this week decide on what type of album you would like to use for your current photographs.  Let me stress again, for this week, Forget about your piles of pictures- only think about today forward!!

Photo Album Links:

Information on the Recollections Collection available at Michaels

Albums I currently use from Exposures