Organizing Your Photographs {52 Weeks to a More Organized Home/Life}

While smart phones and selfies may have taken away the popularity of a Polaroid being taken with your friends, there are still many photographs printed by everyone each year. Whether they are pictures of your pets, yourself or your children, Organizing Your Photographs is important. These are the long lasting memories you can look back upon for years to come. Preserving them and keeping your pictures organized is truly important.

Organizing Your Photographs

Sort By Year

One of the best ways to organize your photographs is to sort them by year. This can be hard with older photographs that you are unsure of, but in that case you can easily lump them together by decades. It is much easier to sort by year with your kids pictures as they grow up. Creating a box for each year will make it easy to access as needed. Depending on how many you have, you can also break down by holiday and season for making it easier to find ones you need or want.

Use Photo Boxes

This is a consistent standard in organizing pictures. Boxes are great for sorting by year, by person or by theme. Photo boxes are also simple to store and often attractive as decor in your home. The problems with this method tend to be potential for damage.

Store Electronically

While most people want to keep their photographs organized in a traditional storage method, it is also a great idea to backup digitally. Scan your photographs and save to an external hard drive, flash drives or to a cloud storage account like Dropbox, Google Drive or even Amazon Cloud.

Put Into Scrapbooks

This is one of the most popular methods, but also the most time consuming. If you enjoy arts and crafts projects, this is an organization method for pictures you can have fun using. It isn’t a project you will complete in one week, but it can be a fun project to take on.

Put Into Fireproof Safe

While this isn’t an organization method, it is important. While you don’t expect to have a flood, fire or other damage to your home and possessions happen – you always want to be prepared. Storing your images electronically is important, but also keeping the originals in a fireproof safe in your home is an extra step of safety.

This is probably the biggest task to undertake in our organization tips for your home series. It may also be one of the most important, as it keeps your memories preserved safely. Organizing your photographs is a big task to take on, but once you have an order established it will be simple to add new images to that as you print them out.

{52 Weeks to a More Organized Home/Life}

If you have any of the hoarding tendencies we describe in this post, you may want to work on getting organized for the New Year. Getting organized and staying organized always seem to be on my list of New Year’s Resolutions. Would you like to join me in getting organized for 2015? Each week we will tackle one area of the home to help you get organized, reclaim your sanity, and save money since disorganization can lead to spending more or missing out on discounts.

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