Got Photos?
Do you have loose photos in drawers, shelves, or closets scattered throughout your home? Maybe you’ve organized them in bins, in expandable folders for each family member—and maybe they are even in chronological order! But what do you do next?
Or have you taken the time to put your photos carefully in albums or boxes, and now… they are sitting there, gathering dust on a shelf?
Or has your parent or sibling or loved one died and left you with all their photos or slides to deal with? (My dad took thousands of slides—and we inherited the job of figuring out what to do with all of them.)
And now that we’re all taking digital photos, what do you do after you download them to your computer? Do you know how to tag them and make them available to family members and friends who would love them?
Some Professional Organizers would tell you to simply TOSS all those old photos. But not me. I’m a StoryTeller. One of my gifts is turning the hearts of the children to the ancestors. I want to honor and cherish the memories of my life—for myself and my posterity—not toss them!
I’ve got photos!
I have 5 children, and as they were growing, I spent thousands of hours working late into the night while they were sleeping, cutting out the best photos and gluing them into their baby books and photo albums. Before scrapbooking was a thing, I was scrapbooking. But decades later, my kids all grown and gone, those photo albums were dusty and yellowing, and no one was enjoying them or feeling the love and learning they represent.
Even though my photos were organized, they weren’t being honored and cherished as I’d hoped. And… those albums were taking up a LOT of space in our home.
Who you gonna call?
I called an expert I know, love and trust. My sister Dorothy Tucker and her friend Michele Doyle are Personal Photo Organizers. Their business, Preserving Your Heritage
http://www.preservingyourheritage.com/
provides solutions for individuals and families who want to preserve their memories and make them accessible for future generations. She recommend the safest way to digitally store photos: on a Forever account.
After talking to Dorothy, I ruthlessly sorted through the albums, saving only the best photos, tossing the blurry out-of-focus ones and the bulky old albums. She digitized them and posted them on my Forever account, and sent me the photos back. My children have access to my Forever account and are thrilled to have their childhood memories available again. I love posting cute or funny photos of them on Facebook or Instagram, and feeling their joy and appreciation.
Once again, my photos are fulfilling their purpose: as a family, we’re now cherishing our memories and each other.
Whether your memory collection consists of old fading photos, outdated media (slides, home movies, audio recordings), memorabilia or digital photos, Dorothy and Michele can help you create a plan to preserve those precious memories. If your (personal or inherited) photos are a chaotic mess, they will help you create a plan to organize them in a meaningful way. If your photo collection is organized, they can help you digitize, preserve and share those precious memories in a way future generations will appreciate and treasure.
Once your photos have been digitized, and for all those digital photos you take every day, Forever is the perfect place to tag, organize and share your memories with family members. It is the only cloud storage option that is not only private and secure, but also permanent. Once you purchase storage, it is yours Forever. It's like having your own private website to share with your family. Click on this link to open a free 2gb account to start uploading your photos.