HOW to DECLUTTER printed PHOTOS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
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Outstanding!! Thank you, Benita. We just moved my 97 year old mother and, in downsizing, a large cedar chest with family photos has come home with me. Your guidance has given a thoughtful, simple way to begin sorting through them. Can't thank you enough!!
I’m so happy if this is helpful to you!
Wonderful and so very helpful. I went thru this process many years ago after my parents passed. It was interesting for me to process the different emotions that arose. As I have no one to leave photos to when I eventually pass, the process of what to keep was a bit different than those who have children and siblings. I sent some photos to extended family who I thought may enjoy seeing them. I kept very few for myself. There was some sadness realizing the photo life of my parents wouldn't continue on. My own photos from my youth were much easier to declutter. I gained much insight into myself, and I am comfortable with my decisions. Beautifully filmed Benita.
I find the idea of decluttering photos very intimidating, particularly because we just lost my dad last summer. But your wonderful video has made me feel I could accomplish this in the near future. ❤️
I’m sorry to hear about your dad. Hopefully the video helps.❤️
"Random pigs" OMG! LOL!
When my mom passed away back in 2014 I took on this task and oh Benita, I'm still doing it. Every time I open an envelope or review the "final" album I see mistakes made during my sorting and classifying....but with music and your partner, if any, the stories and memories are amazing.
So many random pigs!
Benita I did it! Yesterday I decluttered my fabric stash and design-school notes. Today I did 35 years of photos and negatives! It feels fantastic, and you know what, those photos were so easy to go through once I got started.
Oh Benita, what a heroic thing you have done for your Mother! I am the custodian of the photos of our family and boy, do they weigh upon my mind😳 They have been lurking on a high shelf for a long time and you have now given me the courage to get that box down and make a start. Feeling lighter already!
I’m so happy if this was helpful!
My mother moved overseas, and to prepare her for the big declutter, I had her watch some of your videos along with some on Dostadning. She pared down to one medium-large suitcase of clothing and just five banker boxes of personal effects, three of which are being stored with me in the States. I became the keeper of all the family photos, and I must've thrown out one large black rubbish bag full initially, and now I am doing the secondary cull. This is by far the most helpful video available, and I just appreciate you so much! Thank you, Benita! ♥️🙏🏼🌻
Oh wow! What at great accomplishment! I’m so happy if my videos have been helpful. Thank you so much for the love!💕
I find sorting through photos so overwhelming that I can't even think of starting. This made it seem a little more atteinable. You are incredibly patient, disciplined and organized.
I did this 15 years ago, roughly. My kids' dad died, it was so emotional. A couple of years ago I made different piles for all of us. Your idea gives me a lead on how to declutter and divide it more. Thanks, dear.
Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow, you nailed humans and cameras 😂 We’ve started this process but it’s gonna take a while. Great criteria for decluttering!
Hope the video helps!
This is soooooo helpfull I have not sorted my photos for 20 years and your thoughts and tips have given me a vision on how to take it thank you so much❤
'Random pigs' made me smile. We seemed to have lots of animals and bird photos (in addition to photos of our own pets) so I've put some of them in an album to look at with my youngest grandchildren.
That's such a cute idea!
Great video! Thank you for doing this. I am in the process of doing this with mine and my parents photos. I am 27 and still live with my parents. I have kind of put our pictures on hold for a while since we are going through my grandparents belongings. My grandparents were born in the 1920's and lived during the great depression so they saved everything!!! There are pictures of not only my grandparents and my Dad and his siblings, but of Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, Great grandparents, great great grandparents and so on. I also discovered a while back a box of negatives. I originally wouldn't want to keep negatives but I happened to keep some of the older ones from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I actually took pictures of a few and uploaded them to a site that transfers them to positive images. There were a lot of negatives that I had never seen printed copies of. My grandfather loved to take pictures and would even take pictures of friends and neighbors. Thank you again so much for this video!
Such a useful video, Benita! Brought back memories of decluttering my own photos a few years ago, 23 albums down to now 3! I digitised most of them and they are stored on a couple of external hard drives.
Love this video! I never know where to begin so Thank you for the tips! Im feeling inspired, maybe next weekend I’ll have a look at my boxes full of old photos, and make a start!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and hopefully it will make it easier for you!
Same!
I loved how you sorted and organized. I need to do that with my old photos. Now how do you declutter and organise digital photos, can we have a video on that as well please 🙏🙏🙏.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I would love to see a digital photo decluttering and organise video as well, thanks Benita for your great content and channel x
@@Christine-ib5hf You can actually use the same technique on digital photos. Just think of your computer desktop as your physical one and files on your computer as the box lid trays and later cardboard box!
@@BenitaLarsson Yes but what do we do when we also have copies of files with thousands of digital photos in our computer but also saved on external hard disks for fear of losing them? I find it managable to declutter and find duplicates on my computer but what about all the photos/files that were saved outside the computer? How can we compare the files in the hard disks and on the computer without risking to lose photos? I'm generally organized but this is so overwhelming and something that makes me very anxious because I'm thinking of my children and grandchildren and do not want to leave them a big mess...
Thank you so much for this video! I've got boxes full of loose photos and it seems overwhelming to go through! You really gave me the inspiration and I plan to get this done!
Where was this video when I needed it during the pandemic when I sorted through about 3,000 photos, that ranged from my parents' youth to my 48-year-old current situation?😄 It took forever to categorize and sort, but that was one of my big quarantine accomplishments.
I started this very project before the pandemic. I stopped because I got overwhelmed. That may have been because I started digitally scanning all of my photos. I thought I should do this because we live in a hurricane prone area of the US, and it’s not possible to evacuate and worry about bringing any photos. AI thought having them digital would be good in the event the hard copies were destroyed. I wish I had thought of using stacking trays, that would have taken up less space in between working sessions. I abandoned the project, and no I didn’t take it back up during lockdown. I just ended a contract job so I have some free time again-maybe I will start again using your very helpful advice. I looked up articles on the subject and never found any thing as straightforward and helpful as this. Thank you once again! Loyal follower since your blogging days!
Digitizing is a massive job so doing a big declutter first Is definitely the way to go! 💪🏻
Hi Benita, this was great! I'm sure your mum is very glad that you took on this job - I know myself how hard it is to let go of old photos.
What a great video Benita! When we downsized my grandmother and mother i digitized and sorted by branch of family and subject and gave a backup copy to each of the extended family to share. They loved it. My error I think ( maybe not error but my stage of life) is I want to go back to digital files and cull because they are too big to be enjoyable for us. I created a book of a few subject areas for gifts and let go of all the paper copies to kids and family. My mom still has the albums that we can hold up for her to see and rest of us have a lighter closet and nothing to sort when she dies, sisters can share them. I think some kind of folder of best of best and let files go so we actually enjoy them now that they are preserved and shared already. ❤️🇨🇦
I went through two large bins of photos and kids school work a few months ago. I kept one of each year school photo and threw away the rest of the packets, discarded duplicates and blurry and also offered pictures to my children that might be special to them. I discovered that I am the most sentimental about photos and my family wanted very few. I am now down to two photo boxes of printed photos and a few pieces of artwork/letters from my childrens younger years. It wasn’t an easy project but I am glad to be done. Your method looks great…wish I saw this before I tackled the project but it will be very helpful to others!
Great job on that declutter!✨
Thank you Benita! With thousands of photos to sort through you have given me a starting point. I had already started to only take pictures with people several years ago when I realized that noone will want the "pretty flower, landscape, or street scene" when I am gone. Some photos are used for reference in my paintings usually for the colour remembrance but once used I declutter.
Thank you for making me feel better about tossing all my negatives!
There are so many ways you can get photos reproduced rather than to have dig around for the negative!
Yes, the negatives were also hard to decide how to deal with! Thank you!
This is so helpful!! I had my children go through all the photo albums I had created and let them choose what they wanted. I still have several bags of pictures in envelopes that I never got around to putting in albums and old photos I took when my mother passed away 11 years ago. I’m going to use your sorting method and pair everything down to one memory box to keep for myself. Thanks for sharing this🙂
Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful!
Such a timely video Benita - I’m just doing this at my parents house and with my own photos.
I did this last year! I threw out two full bags of duplicates, bad shots, negatives, etc. I arranged them chronologically and some went into albums. I try to go through my phone once a year, print a few shots, and then delete everything. It feels so much lighter, and years from now my kids can enjoy the albums which are labeled so they will know what they are looking at! Great job!
Great job you too!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is the most helpful video I have found on this subject! Thank you!
I'm still watching, but this video makes me really sentimental and I want to go print all my photos now ❤️
Only the best, though!😉
Super helpful! I have a lot of work ahead of me, but this will help me get started. No to get my family’s blessing on the project. I am not too sentimental or attached, but trying to clean out or house.
This video was so artistically done and full of helpful information. It was also a real treat to have you share the pictures with us. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. Never tought of decluttering pictures can be so important. Need to start looking for duplicates & picture of people i dont know
This video helped me today, Oct 2023. Thanks!
I also did this recently with many, many boxes and albums of photos. What a chore! I was able to get rid of 90% of the photos (I had to laugh at your “backs of people you don’t know”). I did not get as far as categorizing, so will definitely utilize your idea of a box with dividers!
My mom and I did this recently when she moved from a house to an apartment--hard to start (mostly for her) but incredibly freeing in the end. We used the same decision-making process you suggest and it work wonderfully. The more we did, the more my mom felt ready to part with. On another topic, might you do an exacto knife tutorial sometime? How you selected your tools (exacto blade and holder, cutting mat, straight edge, triangle if you also have one of those). I've never learned that skill but I'd love to have it, likely applying it in ways similar to yours. Thanks for all the great content, Benita. You're an inspiration, and have been for a long time now.
I just did a photo declutter a week ago. My Mom got emotional and we argued because I wanted to get rid of some photos. Then she actually had fun looking at them with me and we separated some for my aunt that lives abroad. We will digitalise it for her. I used nearly the same criteria you used here. Good job!
Decluttering can be difficult but I’m glad you found a way to go about it that made you both happy! And your aunt!
Thank you for this Benita - I had made a start some time ago by removing all the blurry shots, random flowers, scenery etc and now I know how to organise the remaining ones a lot better. I like your suggestion of acid free paper dividers. Very clever.
Glad you got some ideas!
5:30 I saw a postcard from Thailand and my heart skipped a beat. I recognized Thai alphabet 😊 รัก ค่ะ❤
At the start I felt overwhelmed, but as you finished I felt inspired. Maybe I can do it too.
You totally can and like I said it doesn’t have to get done in a single session!
This is absolutely the video I needed! What a great gift you gave your mom.... the time and decisions are endless! I appreciate all of your ideas, and the box lids are brilliant.I am so overwhelmed by pictures that I am not sure how or where to start. SO thank you so very much for these ideas.
This is brilliant!
Thank you for the inspiration.
Also…the last shots with your patio in the background look so calm and lovely.
Thank you so much!🌿
I love this idea Benita!! Thank you! I have many pictures from my grandmother’s family in Italy. Those have been sorted and stored. However, the photos of my kids from the past 20 years fill several large bins in my garage. I’ve been thinking of starting on photos. Thank you for this idea!
Happy if you got some useful ideas!
Your video has made what seemed like a monumental task into something more manageable. I too have MANY photos to sort through and your approach gives me hope that I can do it … though I’ll be keeping a few of the “thumb” photos of a Europe trip with my mother, father and sister. Dad was notorious for accidentally edging his thumb into photos, so having a few of these photos are a funny reminder of a wonderful trip 👍🇦🇺
Yes to keeping thumbs if they’re part of your family travel history!🙌🏻
I will be tackling my family photo's (both sides of the family) this winter. Watching this video has helped me set guidelines -before I pull out the photos so I don't get sucked down the sentimental path quite so quickly. Thank you.
Did you manage to do it??
This was so helpful, I have a big cupboard of photos I didn’t know what to do with 👍🏼
So happy if this was helpful to you!
Really like your idea of using box lids for sorting categories. It took me three years to sort my mom's photos, since I had so many questions about the people, year and locations. Those photos made many trips back and forth between my house in Virginia and my parents' house near Chicago! Years later I digitized and edited many family photos and old 35mm slides. The colors in old slides are outstanding. Many of these digitized photos made personalized gift photo albums for Older relatives.
Detailed, concise and specific. Brilliant video, and in my view, your best yet. Your guidance has helped me, and l believe it will help people everywhere because it demonstrates this is a project that can be completed in a timely way with your example.
Thank you for these great suggestions. I’m sorry to hear that Mom hasn’t been well, hope she feels better soon.
Thank you, at 93 she’s not going to be great all the time.
@@BenitaLarsson , for sure. I lost my father last year at 91, my mother at only 76. Difficult times.
This was so helpful and inspiring. Thank you.
I rewatched this video today after receiving a package from my sister. Both the video and the package made me chuckle. My sister sent me a package of snapshots, mostly of her home and garden from yearrrrs ago! One person's clean-out might be another person's toss-out.
I needed this step by step soo badly. Thanks so much Benita!
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant, what a well composed and useful video. Bravo, Benita! Your cinematography keeps getting better and better and the subject matter was so creatively and clearly explained. A classic. Thank you.
Thank you so much!😊
I did this a few years with thousands of photos. I worked on it from morning till night for about a week. it was a lot of work but it feels so good when I paired it all down.
Great job! It is a big project if you have a lot!
Love this, you are amazing 😍 Would love to see how you keep digital files organised, great tips in this video 👍
Thanks for the suggestion!
Agree! I’m trying to do this at the moment and changes in technology over the years has made it a very long job ...
Benita, I am a die hard minimalist, but when it comes to photos, I will and make all the effort to keep even the ''irrelevant'' ones. It's a snapshot in time, it's as important for the future generation as it is for us looking at Victorian photos or generally vintage photos. I feel like printed photos and books are for me, above all stuff to be decluttered.
Thank you so much for this video! It’s the best one I’ve found on the process of sorting photos and decluttering them. I appreciate hearing your thought process!
Useful and inspiring. Thank you!
Hello Benita! 😃 Incredibly organized ~ I love the step by step breakdown (this was so relaxing to watch)❤ We have an incredible amount of photo albums (my mom was so organized like that) - they are very heavy to move - I have many bins full of albums (memories). This is giving me some ideas on how I can possibly combine some of those albums - I know that everything can all be done digitally but I love pulling out the albums, turning the pages, and my mom also wrote underneath each photo (names, dates, and places) - I really don't know how she had all the time to do that, my mom was always so busy! 💓💗💓 Thank you again for sharing - I am going to pull out my kids baby👶 albums and reminisce tonight! 🌼🌷🌼
I made quite a few albums for Wille and they’re SO heavy!😅
Awesome video, definitely original content with a very important topic for many people
Glad you enjoyed it!
Benita, you did an amazing job.
I need to do that with my photos. I’m been procrastinating because it’s not an easy job to do. Well done!
From Canada 🇨🇦
It is a big job but the end result is very satisfying.
So my mom has a very large, very close-knit family who are all camera happy individuals. She was basically the family historian and passed away back in 2020. As the oldest child of the oldest sibling in her family, I have inherited all the family photos. They take up an entire bookshelf in my teeny tiny apartment, displacing some of my items. She had them divided up into these photo boxes already and by year. The problem I face is that she had 27 of these boxes with photos from the 1910s to the late 2010s (not including the 4 massive photo albums). So I am thinking the best solution is to scan the majority and give boxes to other family members, but it is a DAUNTING task lol.
Excellent organization and ideas for a project I find overwhelming. Thank you Benita.
Wonderful tips and ideas on how to declutter a very sentimental subject! Your mom must have loved it when you brought the new box to her - perfect!
She’s getting it when I go see her next time!
Åhh, va svårt det är att rensa ut foto. Jag hittade denna video när jag sökte på rensa foto. Det är det jag har kvar❣️jag har redan gått en runda men måste göra det igen. Du e bäst, kram❤
I smiled at some descriptions of your photos. I have over 70 years of not so great photos. I like the box lid idea of sorting then the divider box. This seems a good way of sorting the good, the bad and the ugly…Haha
Happy if you got some new ideas!
This is an incredibly helpful video. I’ve only done a little photo organizing, so now feel the courage to dive back in. Thanks Benita!
Glad you found it useful!
This is by far the best video I have seen on decluttering printed photos. Thank you so much!
Wow, thank you!
Did anyone else notice young Benita😍😍😍
Haha, those school photos!😅
Benita! I was procrastinating starting my photo organization project today by grabbing a cup of tea and checking out your latest video. Lo and behold, you provided the answers to getting this big project done. The box lids for sorting was brilliant! I'm ready to tackle these photos now. Thanks.
Yay! I’m so happy to hear that!
This is perfectly timed because I plan to do this with all of my photos this summer. Thank you for the tips! ❤️
Omg, the last image light leaks! Memories!!!
I have been gifted (ha) with all of the family photos. I have made several sweeps through, but definitely appreciated the tips in this video. I need to give myself permission to get rid of photos of people I don't know, and the bad photos. If I don't know them or want the photos, there isn't anyone left who will. Thanks much!!
Yes, you can now make the decisions!
I’ve done all this too and your video brought back memories, good and bad but glad I took the time to do the culling.
I’m so bad, even seeing your stack of ones you were removing made me feel sad. I’m glad you posted the inspiration
Thanks Benita for making this video… I have started sorting 47 years of photos many times and have culled some but I see now that your way of initial cull then refining later is probably a better way for me to go.
Otherwise I spend too much time pondering whether to keep each photo or not. Im inspired to start today especially since we have no electricity today due to an upgrade it’s the perfect time to start🌷
I’m so happy if you found some inspiration!
Very well made video Interesting to watch
Thank you. Very helpful.
Super helpful! Points me in the right direction on how to get started on sorting photos.
Thank you so much for this extremely helpful and well produced video. Not only was it full of useful advice, but it was also very calming.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've inherited so many photos over the last couple years, this really helps!
Excellent. I did this about ten years ago when I split all the family photos between my children. I also wrote I to on the back to make sure the next generation to see them understood what they were.
That’s crucial because if they’re not marked they make no sense.
Lovely, well done video. I'm almost done my first pass thru my photos. Ur way is great + answers some of my questions + gives me a plan for phase 2! Thanks. Shalom
Thank you very much for this video, I was looking for this and your video helped me a lot. Greetings from Argentina. PS I love your videos!
Such an awesome video!! I find decluttering photos really hard for two reasons: they can’t be recycled here in the uk and I just can’t bear the idea of photos of people or pets sitting in landfill for some reason (irrational but here it is!)
I just about managed to get over throwing away random/bad photos with no people or pets…there was just no alternative and I couldn’t keep them!
I had to have a few little bonfires of photos of people and pets…for some reason it felt better than putting them in garbage! 🔥🔥🔥
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Benita, very helpful thank you. I have many boxes, lots of duplicates. I have culled some and used a few of the methods shown, but seeing you work through the process was super inspiring. 🌺
Very interesting for the community ! I did that some years ago and proceded the same way as you !
No interest to keep photos without meaning, doubles etc. The mire time passes by the less family members to look at them....
I see often albums on the flea market. The past of other people.
A bid sad...
Love from Paris 🌻🌼💜💛💙💚
Love from Paris
That portrait of you! Ah… i can see it as an art work andy warhol style!
Last year I tackled the big project of going through all the photos and photo albums, results are now all down to 1 small box. With your suggestion I will go through the box and see how I can divide them into categories and maybe just get rid of some more because at the end of day no one is even looking at these pictures anymore.
Happy if you found some additional ideas!
THANK YOU for showing me how to organise the last 64 years of my photographs 😃💖
So happy if you found some useful tips!
I went through all my photo boxes the last time that I moved and did as you suggested. How many photos of decorated Christmas trees and beaches can one need? Also photos of people we met on holidays who we don't remember and who definitely our kids would not care about! Now my collection is more manageable. It felt good. I found out that the old photos cannot be recycled but have to go in the garbage. I also assembled stacks of photos and gave them to my now adult children so that they would be able to enjoy them.
Wow. Such good tips ❤
Thank you for this video! I need to do this with all my photos plus those at my Mom’s house. Inspiration to get started😊
I am a photograph fanatic (especially vintage family photos) so this video was extra fun to watch. I have done a good job organizing the physical photos, but my digital photos are a giant mess. The issue is that there are so many more of them and the best thing to do would be to pair them down as soon as they're uploaded to the computer. I did that for a few months but then got behind and now feel like it's an unsurmountable amount of work. There's something very different about organizing digital photos that definitely doesn't bring me any joy. Tips from you would be very much appreciated. I've watched all of your videos and this was the first one that I laughed out loud with several times as you described the kinds of photos that went into the eliminate pile. THANK YOU!
You can use the same method if you think of your computer desktop as you physical table and files on there as the box lid trays.
Thank you Benita! It so much helpful, without any drama and tragedy made hard task.
Awesome information, motivation and explanation of what in reality is involved. I do feel motivated now to start going through my collection
I need to dot his soon Benita. Thanks for the inspiration.
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You did a great job decluttering the photos. I’ve culled mine twice but now thinking about taking them out of the photo albums and putting them in all one acid free box. Thank you Benita for the inspiration 🥰
Glad you found some inspiration!
Many work,i 've done it 2 years ago...greetings from germany, Heike 🌞🌞🌞
Thanks Benita, I'm currently in the process of culling down my late mum's photo albums, not to mention my own, which will be a later project. Your suggestions have been really valuable, and are sure to be useful for me. It's a massive job as I have all mum's diaries and memorabilia to collate as well, then the family history stuff! At the moment I'm asking my brothers and sisters to look through the albums and take any photos they'd like, I'm also making piles for mum's grandchildren. Love your videos, especially Mini and Bonus xx
That is a massive job but you can do it!💪🏻
@@BenitaLarsson Thanks Benita, luckily I'm now retired so have plenty of time 👍👍💕