What do you do with hard-copy photos?

iJenny

iJenny

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I've been in our home office for three hours now organizing and cleaning it. And I'm almost done, but I'm a bit stumped about what to do with some hard-copy photos.
All of our pre-digital photos are in photo boxes and that works fine for me. But what am I to do with all of the large photos (ie, portraits, etc) that I have of my boys? I have three or four of those studio folders of 8x10 and smaller photos from portrait sessions. I don't have a file cabinet that is wide enough to hold the large photos and/or folders. So, what should I do? I hate having these just lying around!!
P.S. I don't want to scan them because the quality is never as good as I'd like.
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Jenny,
I bought a flat wrapping paper style box and put all our studio shots under our bed. Not the ideal storage system, but I feel safe with them under there.
LOL!
 
Frame them? Lol!

I can't remember if you paper scrap too, but LSS's have bags big enough for 12x12 paper. You could keep one of those (or I could send you one, lol) and wrap them in that and put them on a shelf or in a drawer or in a box like Shannon suggested.

I'm dreading going through my hard copy photos. I really want to scan them, but there are SO many. Maybe I'll go through some of the boxes tonight and pull out ones to have my dad scan this weekend......
 
Only thing I'll add is that I've always heard that you sould NEVER store photos flat. They can start to stick together from gravity, moisture, heat, time, or a combination of the 4. I'd go for an upright storage system, the 12x12 file folder sounds like a good idea. I've actually thought about buying one of those fire safes, the bigger ones, to store my photos and/or memorycards/flash drives in-as a form of backing up.
 
I'm making DVD back ups this week of all my 2007 scrap and photos. We looked into a safety deposity box but those suckers are expensive, so we're going to buy a safe. And all my backup duplicates will be going in there.
 
I have pieces of parchment paper between all my photos, I'm not sure if this wil help them "sealing" together in the long run, but someone told me this was how I should do it.
 
Mine are in 12x12 paper savers from the scrapbook store. I have them in a closet. Some I have hanging up, I don't have many hardcopy photos except from family and such. Most of mine are digital and I just print what I want
 
I was just doing some organizing myself and found a pile of envelopes of my boys' portraits from Wal-Mart. I have 3,6,9, and 12 month portraits of each of them, and plenty of them! (Obviously I have no solution to this question!)
 
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