An old box full of photos.
A true treasure.
Handed down from my grandmother.
What will you hand down?
A flash disk or CD that may or may not work? They don’t last forever.
Photo CDs that are in an unsupported format? I have more than a few of those!
Me? I’m going to hand down scrapbooks with stories of the memories!
AND plenty of my own boxes filled with printed photos too!
I’ve uploaded my photos to various sources including flickr and Shutterfly and I have them on a hard drive and a back up too. But creating scrapbook pages digitally and then uploading them to be printed at someplace like Shutterfly or Blurb is truly the best way to go! It’s a great failsafe. If something like Hurricane Sandy or a fire or other natural disaster would happen, at least I could log on and reprint my books. That is truly priceless.
Why do we take pictures anyway? Because we want to remember our experiences.
Photos are the first step in documenting our story. Keeping a journal to document the details is a close second.
Photos and stories combine and you have pure gold, scrapbooks!
I can’t tell you enough how important it is to scan your photos, take notes and ask questions of your parents lives and their parents lives so the stories can be preserved for all those to come after you. Facebook, instagram, snapchat… memories are not going to be treasured there. They will be treasured in books you can touch, stories you can read.
No matter where technology goes we’ll always have our memories. Share them!
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This is so true, Katie! I’ve scanned all our really old photos and most of the 70s, 80s, and 90s – before we had a digital camera. I keep flash drives in our safe deposit box and upload all my layouts to Shutterfly, but it’s the actual scrapbooks we can touch and look at that I love!
Awesome Julie! So glad you’ve got a backup going!
I love that stack of photobooks! I’m just about to order my very first completed Days of December book on Shutterfly, as soon as I can figure out why I can’t add a title to the spine. I have a bunch of other books I’ve ordered through Shutterfly, too, mostly of trips I’ve taken with the boys, or outings. I’d love to get some more created around other themes like family history. I do print out pages regularly and put them into page protectors, because I love to be able to see them and remember them. But that’s a great reminder that if they stay on our hard drives, future generations may not even know they’re there or be able to access them. Awful thought!
Oh Stacia, I always make by own file for the spine and upload that thru the digital scrapbook trak at Shutterfly! I’m working up a heritage program in hopes of making family history books easier! It’s just taking more time than I had thought! And so true, those that come after us may not be able to wade thru our hard drives and find them! So important to share and keep the stories alive with everyone! 🙂
P.S. Those are fabulous heritage pages! I love that style. Saving them to scraplift. 😀
🙂 thanks stacia!