Many of my pictures are in photo albums, but I still have many loose pictures that I mean to put in photo albums. But although I keep putting this project off, I still have the photos organized by the approximate years, vacation settings or holiday settings in a file box. I have another file box for pictures that were handed down to me that belonged to my grandparents. They are easy to get to because they are all stored in one place and organized.
If you have a digital camera and take pictures to download to your computer, it is a good idea to get a flash drive that you can label for the pictures. You can also have these printed at your local photo shop. You should organize your pictures so that you have them as a keepsake of a moment in time that you cannot recreate.
If you take videos of your children or family, you also want to make sure that they are clearly labelled so that they are not accidentally tossed out. One of the most heartbreaking things that I can think of is the fact that my daughter and her friends made a movie with our old video camera one time. It was cute at the time and I stored it with our other videos, but did not label it. I’m sure that it was tossed out accidentally as it is nowhere to be found. And that little video cannot be recreated - it was a moment in time that I would enjoy seeing now that she is grown and it’s gone.
So be sure to properly care for and store photos, videos and important papers in a safe place where you can have easy access to them and be able to retrieve them when you want them. At the time you get back a bunch of pictures, you will most likely look at them and put them on a counter where they will eventually move to a drawer and then possibly lost. You may not think of them at the time, but someday, you will want to see those photos to remember that event.
There are numerous ways to get organized when it comes to documents and photos. The best way is to use a waterproof file case where you can have everything at your fingertips whenever you need it. It can take you a while to sort through your papers and pictures to organize them, but it will be time well spent.
