Great video! I am 71, so I have many more photos on paper than digital, but I have a lot of those, too. I have finally stopped taking so many, so that helps. I wish I had been more moderate the earlier years. Young people, if you are starting out, don't take so many photos! They become a burden later. With digital photos, you can make sure you have a good one as you go along. Organize other paper as you go along, too. I have a massive paper problem, so I'm warning you to start while you are young!
During the initial pandemic lockdown I paid my teenager to upload all my digital photos onto 1 external hard drive. It took him 8 hours. It was the best money I ever spent. 😁
Can you please let me know more? What do you mean all your digital photos onto one external drive? Were they on your phone? I put my photos from my camera on my computer. Aren’t they already in my hard drive?
@@fourleaf8055 your photos are on your hard drive, but you can store them on an external drive (search on amazon for one). An external drive plugs into your computer so you can access it, kind of like an enormous thumb drive. The reason you might want to do this is so that your computer's internal hard drive has more memory freed up so it will run faster.
@@fourleaf8055 as Katie Picciotoli stated even if you have all your photos on your computer hard drive the eternal drive is the back up if your main computer ever dies or get a bug, you will still have your photos.
It is a huge project!! I did it last year, and being older, I had old, old videos in various formats and even some old picture slides. It cost a tonne, but I took them to a specialist who transposed them onto an external hard drive. FYI - I save the HD now at my bank in a safety deposit box. Some photos from the past were lost in a fire. Back in the day, it was harder to get copies from others to replace the lost ones, and there were no digital copies then. Another pointer: It’s a great gift to do this as special Christmas or Birthday gift for someone who is a baby boomer in your family. Last note: I’m now journaling info about my photos. I’m starting with my paper photos. I don’t know how long my memory will be good, so I’m labelling them and journaling the experiences from those times. That way, if someone after I am gone wants to know the W5, they will know. And, if my memories go, the journal will be a great adult storybook!
I so needed to see this!! I have about 10 photo boxes plus I just got all of my mom's so I'm going through them in the basement, problem is my husband just installed a wood burning insert in the basement which actually is great and I thought it would motivate me since then I'm not freezing but now it's so cozy down there I end up on the couch watching tv! my goal is to have it done by month end! no excuses!!
I have an entire bookcase dedicated to paper photos and scrapbook albums. And I still anticipate another half bookcase full from my mother in law when she passes. I am so tempted to just put them all in a box and ship them to a professional digitizer. But then the guilt of throwing them away after that is huge
So glad you said to back it up. Some people actually have multiple hard drives in case your external hard drive goes too. Maybe worth it. Yes it's definitely good to have the copies because the one UA-camr I watched last picture she had stored on a website when the website switched pictures they accidentally lost hers and she missed a couple years of pictures that way. And the website had said there wasn't going to be a problem so she thought the pictures were going to be okay but they ended up not being okay. ☹️
I think many of us have struggled with this and feel like it is an overwhelming task, so we don't even start. But, I like how you broke the process down into smaller steps with an indication of how long each step took you to complete. And, though the length of time will be different for each of us, it is definitely not as long as we think. Also, I appreciated the precautions and the helpful tools you used while working on it. Thank you for sharing!
Yes, for sure. Steph normally makes so much sense to me, but when she started explaining what to do, my brain started to die, and my thoughts just went elsewhere. I dont have a computer, so i might be stuck, anyway.
@@TheSecretSlob I have a huge bin of photos. You gave me some hope! My son sent some off to a company to put them on a cd. So I have a jumping off place, even if I don’t understand the technology.
I've been working on organizing my family photos so I can start scanning them. My photos go all the way back to the late 1950s, so I have quite a few to go through.
Lol, that's amazing! Love how much space you saved. I have 14 "finished" scrapbooks. And I think I'm going to take them apart. It's too much and I don't want to look through them. Because I glued all my photos in, including the ones I don't care about. And saved Christmas programs and everything. And it takes up more space than I want it to. I also have most of my digital photos on google photos, and backed up, but there's a few that aren't added yet - prints from childhood, and some Facebook ones (thanks for that tip!), And a couple cds. Thankfully I don't have photos on old computers or zip drives. I do have some in my email though. You didn't mention that one! I have more than a terabyte of photos... It's going to take me quite a while to declutter them.
LOl - I have 10 of those photo boxes! Plus all the oversized photos in file folders. And I know what you mean about the digital ones. It's overwhelming - I have over 5,000 on my phone alone. I have been deleting photos, a year at a time, off my phone, when I'm waiting for a phone call or for an appointment or something like that. That is helping.
great work. this is one type of clutter, of an endless number of things people can collect or hoard, that i can honestly say i don't have to go thru. phew! i have never been a picture lover...so not easy cuz i am great at decluttering...just easy because i didn't have that obsession! thanks for the tips about how to get rid of the old computers ....i need a video just about that ...step by step!
This is my project for 2021.....it may have to spill into 2022 :0. Being in my 50's, I'm afraid I have Sooo many more paper photos besides digital. Thank you for the ideas. Congratulations on getting the weight off your shoulders!
THANK YOU. I'm buried in photos. I have started to collect all photos from around the house. This is my New Years project. It will take all year. Taking baby steps I'll get it done.
Thank you for all the tips Stephanie! Instead of a hard drive I'd suggest an SSD drive which is very unlikely that will crash or break. Love your channel
I think photo storage is something we all find so hard to manage. I know people that just have boxes of loose photos they don’t know what to do with. I did scrapbooking for a while as it was more for my mental health at first but really enjoyed it. I’d like to do some more but they’re very time consuming. I think just having the mindset to start and do exactly what you’ve done is what I need to do. I will make this a priority for 2021.😊❤️
In March I sat down and organized photos on my computer. I sorted them by year. And then some special events into a seperate folder in that year. For exemple 2018 has photos and folder like vacation, friend wedding, kids birthday... I clean my phone almost every day. And google photos beacuse it uplodes. What I didn't do is a backup...
Great tips! I am 26 and have been going through my grandparents pictures. They were born in the 1920's and grew up during the great depression so they saved everything! They have all of their own pictures as well as each of their parents pictures and so on. Trying to organize everything by year. I then plan to sort pictures for my Dad, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins and will probably have to do this for my Dad's cousins as well since there are pictures of them and their parents. Trying to find the best way to do this. So far I have about half of the collection at my house (which is 32 albums worth and a large box of photos) and I am planning on going back to their house and get the rest (at least another 20 albums and more boxes). I have never seen two people save so many pictures. They passed several years ago and we haven't even started to go through their things. After I sort the ones for my family I plan to scan the majority of the others and either make Cd's or flash drives or something for each of them. My Uncle has also talked about a photo book or something. Great tips in your video by the way. It helped out a lot.
You have uploaded so many good videos over the years but WOW - this is the best EVER! I am sure that I will come back to it several times until I have this situation under control.
I have started this week every day 15min decluttering foto's from my phone. When that is finished i Will put the ones to safe in the cloud and on external disk. After that i wil do what you did! I hope it Will reach the finish 😄☺️😅. Thanks 👍👍
Helping my mom declutter, organize, scan and backup 80 years of paper photos. She is not going out at all at this time,as she is high risk, so it was the perfect time. We've just begun but already it feels so much better. Tackling one category of photos at a time. It will be worth it in the end. Doing the digital photos will be easy in comparison.
Love this and need to do this but definitely not as computer savvy. Would love after your January declutter series a step by step tutorial showing the process. Like is google cloud available through computer and phone, ? A app. Then showing how to put photos from devices and on hard drive to cloud. After sorting do you back up on same hard drive or different. If same do you clear out photos you uploaded first? Think visually seeing you go through the steps would really help so many. Your process sounds doable if one knows how do do those things without spending hours researching it on the internet(that seems to be me anyway)themselves. Just and idea if interested, thanks for all your motivating videos!
Always good to remember Cloud is only ever temporary storage. Google drop programs all the time. That external hard drive is a better place. Dup drives even better.
I have complete photo overload, from all of mine and my husband's family plus our own photos including hobbies and travel. That said they are pretty organised but still lots of room for improvement.
I’m definitely coming back to this video, because it’s so important, but right now I’m trying to find your paper declutter video pertaining to bills, etc. I’m in the thick of doing that right now and need motivation!!❤
Girl, you would not believe how many boxes of paper photos I have! I’ve got shelves in closets filled with boxes. And I also have tens of thousands of digital photos. I know it will be a daunting project, so I’m not letting myself start until I have more pressing projects completed. Granted, I am many, many years older than you, but it’s astonishing how much I have! Some of it I inherited from other family members; lots of it is mine. UGH! Thanks for your tips!
I love your shirt !!! I have only seen that movie a million times lol. I definitely have tons of concert pictures , albums , discs everywhere . yikes . I do have Google photos on my phone though .
Yas! I have 1000s Photos but still love to print. Manage to print all of them a year ago but STILL not put into albums/photo boxes etc then there’s the digital mess I need to organise!!
Last year I had 5000 photos digitized at scancafe. It feels so good to have all the falling apart albums gone. In years past I did 1500 slides. Two external hard drives-one I the safe-keeps them safe. Now to keep it up every year and make some albums so we can enjoy the memories.
Thank you for the Facebook tip! So many photos from my high school years and current there and last summer I'd spent forever on there pulling photos for a slideshow for my wedding. It'll be great to have the digital stuff in one place. Still chipping away at the physical ones since last April but the pile is so much smaller and the new albums I got all match styles and have an area to write ✍ next to them so I hope to preserve our stories that way too
Love your shirt! 😜 Yes I need to do this!! Thank you so much for the motivation..I bought a hard drive so now I can finally stop procrastinating pictures..blah
Just the motivation I needed! I’ve been dreading this for years. I’ve lost thousands of photos from a laptop crash and have been meaning to centralize my photos ever since. Didn’t have a clue where to start! Thank you for the inspo! 🤩
Thank you for making this seem possible. 🙌 It’s one of those things that just never makes it to my to-do list but is always looming in the background 🤦♀️
I started my photo declutter a few days ago as my phone was running very slow. I'm still busy moving photos to my external drive, there are tones of thousands of them but I'm glad I'm doing it. I didn't think of my printed photos. Thank you for the reminder.
I’m only watching this because I like you. The idea of dealing with digital photos stresses me out 😂. Also, thank you for sharing Jill’s bread baking video today. I laughed so hard!
😳😳😳 Wow!!!!! I NEED to do this! But the time it will take!!!! Ugh! You’ve inspired me for sure to add this to my list of projects to tackle! Thank you!
I think the recommendation is 1-2 hard drives and one cloud storage. I got an external hard drive to back up my computer, and then also used Google photos. I also agree to automate uploads to google, since I lost a phone and the 3 years of photos in it. Then I go through every few weeks to declutter and then back up.
Thank you for this video! I find it sooo intimidating to look at all my physical photos and think "Oh man, I have to make sooo many photo albums, it will take forever". I never thought about just storing them in a box. So simple. And then I can finally have a free mind. Brilliant! :D
It's still a daunting project, but I put it on my project list now and I will get to it eventually. At least I have an idea of how to get started now ... thank you! :)
❤️❤️❤️ A friend of mine clips greeting cards together per event, all birthday cards from that year, all wedding cards, etc. I don’t collect mine but I thought that was a cool idea if you do.
Steph You are soooo motivational! Thank you for the link for the adapter. I just ordered it and I can’t wait to start getting all of my SD cards transferred!😊😊. You have a gift for making even the most difficult task doable! Thank you for your sunny disposition! 🥰🥰
I definitely still have little disposable cameras from high school and I graduated in 2002. I don't even know if I could develop them right now I definitely want to though I feel like those are really happy times of my life and I had a lot of fun adventures with friends.
Recommended video. Just subscribed and am now "motivated" to begin tackling my photo problem. However, it's not just a photo problem, it's my kids' treasures from growing up. For example, all of the coloring book pages that went on the fridge or the art stuff that came home from school or the essays they got a nice note on from the teacher. I have 4 adult children and the youngest is in grad school. I had at one point 27 totes of treasures and photos. I have cut down some of it. My question though: how do you dispose of the items once you go through the process of backing it all up. I have such an emotional attachment and empty nest syndrome that I can't seem to let it go....😭😭😭 PS. You look like the age of one of my kids so I don't exactly expect an answer to that question, unless you are a therapist....😂. Thanks!
I feel you! I haven't stuck a single photo in album since my children were born - so for 24 years. Last year I sorted and pasted photos for weeks. All digital are in iCloud and on Google Photos. It feels so good now! Greetings from Germany.
Great ideas and ways to organize the photos... i was looking and needed this because i have a locker full of boxes with photos...I’m 63 so i have accumulated a lot of pic .....plus all the photos on devices....thank u so much i really appreciate it!!!!!
Been on this clutter series all month just waiting for this perfect video. I needed some validation on how I wanted to handle photos and my hoard of greeting cards. Thanks for this video, you have a new subscriber!!
I need to do this and thought about if for two years. But my brain is so tired so I don't know how. At least I am upploading the digital files to a cloud right now, in case the house burns down. This video was pushing me so at least I started that important step. Thank you for the inspiration!
Hello Steph! Thank you so much for this video...i am reading the omment section full of cries for help, so it's for sure a common struggle. What I love about you is your positive attitude and patience to do things step by step, having faith in yourself and not trying to make things perfect. It's incredible to discover that we are often our own worst enemy in that sense! You give me proof that are not projects to be overwhelming, but it's rather our expectations on our ownselves!...Please consider
Thanks so much for this video - I have been wanting to tackle this for years, but always felt overwhelmed 😩 Very keen to get started now so I can sleep easy too!
Just have ten photos on my iPad. I divided the physical photos between the children, They have scanned the historic ones, I have the originals in a museum acid free box. I have one annotated album. Senior senior here before the age of digital photography. A few of the favorites were copied onto canvas and are on the wall. We sorted Alan’s fam and picked out what he wanted in a physical album. We sorted the rest into envelopes to be mailed or dropped off for his fam. Two are being mailed out this morning. I personally do not have any paper or digital clutter, but Alan is a writer/ historian....
Great job! I feel overwhelmed with all my pictures. 🤨 I’ve been married 30 years and I have all them in one place but really don’t know where to start. Maybe I should just separate them for each of my 3 children in a photo box. Thanks for the inspiration 🥰
If you don't know where to start,your children won't either. It's good you have them all in one place. I took time to sort my mum's photos for her - 55years worth! Start by binning the photos of scenery and animals....this can always be googled, bin pictures of ex partners, ex friends, ppl who give you bad memories. Then pics of ppl you don't know or who aren't in your immediate family....pass on to other family members if you feel they would appreciate them. Then with what you have left,sort by person....eg put all pics of your daughter on her own together and in a rough age order, then all ones of Ur husband on his own, then ones of family photos altogether,tho this is just the easiest way I found to sort my mum's. X
You’re so lucky. Photos in a small bin. I’m 60, have YEARS & YEARS of photos of all sizes, like 10x13 etc. Plus the digital photos since the beginning of that era. Not to mention the tons I have in frames. Ugh. Nightmare.
This is exactly what I have been working on for weeks! Ahhh I wish I was finished like you!!! Lol 😂 Some great tips, that I didn’t consider! Thanks Steph! 👏
I like to make photobook’s. It helps keep the photos organized and declutter at the same time. When i come home from a trip i try to make a photobook right away. I will upload all the photos onto my computer from my phone, decide which ones I’m putting in the book and then delete the rest. The ones I’m keeping get backed up onto an external hard drive for safe keeping. Photobooks takes up very minimal space and I can have hundreds of photos that are organized by event, year, person etc. It started with just me but now my whole family is involved in the photobook making process, helping to choose what photos they want to put in the book.
Thank you so much. That was my next job that I have been putting off for some time. I will start today now that I know what I have to do. Love you videos. Thank you for taking time out of your busy life to help so many of us to sort out our messy homes. X
Hi Steph, I found your channel with the January declutter challenge and love your content! This was so timely as I’m tackling this project right now! I was so glad to hear I’m not the only person who keeps greeting cards LOL. I regularly declutter my house so the other areas in the series haven’t been too bad and I’ve been trying to stay focused on my photo project. So much is tied into sorting photos with memories and such. I have been really good about putting all of my paper photos in albums up until 2005 when everything went digital. I love the way you showed how to do digital photos. This is where I have been stuck. Any ideas on how to digitize paper photos that are in albums? Short of taking them all out of the albums I’m not sure what to do. I have about 12 albums. Would love to see a video when you put your digital photos in albums and how you do that.
Alright you actually made me do it!! I was following you doing it on IG so i started by printing my digital pictures, i did part one, and i bought my first album ever lol
Great video! I am 71, so I have many more photos on paper than digital, but I have a lot of those, too. I have finally stopped taking so many, so that helps. I wish I had been more moderate the earlier years. Young people, if you are starting out, don't take so many photos! They become a burden later. With digital photos, you can make sure you have a good one as you go along. Organize other paper as you go along, too. I have a massive paper problem, so I'm warning you to start while you are young!
During the initial pandemic lockdown I paid my teenager to upload all my digital photos onto 1 external hard drive. It took him 8 hours. It was the best money I ever spent. 😁
Can you please let me know more? What do you mean all your digital photos onto one external drive? Were they on your phone? I put my photos from my camera on my computer. Aren’t they already in my hard drive?
@@fourleaf8055 your photos are on your hard drive, but you can store them on an external drive (search on amazon for one). An external drive plugs into your computer so you can access it, kind of like an enormous thumb drive. The reason you might want to do this is so that your computer's internal hard drive has more memory freed up so it will run faster.
@@fourleaf8055 my computer died- taking many photos with it- learn from my mistake
@@fourleaf8055 as Katie Picciotoli stated even if you have all your photos on your computer hard drive the eternal drive is the back up if your main computer ever dies or get a bug, you will still have your photos.
It is a huge project!! I did it last year, and being older, I had old, old videos in various formats and even some old picture slides. It cost a tonne, but I took them to a specialist who transposed them onto an external hard drive.
FYI - I save the HD now at my bank in a safety deposit box. Some photos from the past were lost in a fire. Back in the day, it was harder to get copies from others to replace the lost ones, and there were no digital copies then. Another pointer: It’s a great gift to do this as special Christmas or Birthday gift for someone who is a baby boomer in your family.
Last note: I’m now journaling info about my photos. I’m starting with my paper photos. I don’t know how long my memory will be good, so I’m labelling them and journaling the experiences from those times. That way, if someone after I am gone wants to know the W5, they will know. And, if my memories go, the journal will be a great adult storybook!
About how much did it cost because I have about 15-20 albums of my moms I need to do something with...and I want to keep them all lol. Thanks!
@@brieb9750 hi. I am in Canada. It cost me just over $800. However, most of the cost was to transpose videos.
@@myxochi Oh good to know! I might have some old video too. Memories are priceless :) Thank you so much!
Greate tips.
One from me. I have two external hard drives. One at home, and one at a friend's house. In case of a fire 🔥
That is smart! We keep some documents in the freezer for that reason!
Great idea now I'm buying another hard drive I have millions and millions of photos
I so needed to see this!! I have about 10 photo boxes plus I just got all of my mom's so I'm going through them in the basement, problem is my husband just installed a wood burning insert in the basement which actually is great and I thought it would motivate me since then I'm not freezing but now it's so cozy down there I end up on the couch watching tv! my goal is to have it done by month end! no excuses!!
I never knew you can take Facebook photos and save them to the cloud! I need further know how on how to do this! Great video!
I have my external hard drives in fire proof water proof safe in my home.
I have an entire bookcase dedicated to paper photos and scrapbook albums. And I still anticipate another half bookcase full from my mother in law when she passes. I am so tempted to just put them all in a box and ship them to a professional digitizer. But then the guilt of throwing them away after that is huge
If you arnt using them and enjoying them now, then I think you should for sure!
So glad you said to back it up. Some people actually have multiple hard drives in case your external hard drive goes too. Maybe worth it. Yes it's definitely good to have the copies because the one UA-camr I watched last picture she had stored on a website when the website switched pictures they accidentally lost hers and she missed a couple years of pictures that way. And the website had said there wasn't going to be a problem so she thought the pictures were going to be okay but they ended up not being okay. ☹️
Wow! Much respect! You tackled THE most difficult De-Clutter Project! You ROCK!
I think many of us have struggled with this and feel like it is an overwhelming task, so we don't even start. But, I like how you broke the process down into smaller steps with an indication of how long each step took you to complete. And, though the length of time will be different for each of us, it is definitely not as long as we think.
Also, I appreciated the precautions and the helpful tools you used while working on it. Thank you for sharing!
WOW, you are amazing. For me, technology is more painful than taxes.
Me too! Great to get it done!
Yes, for sure. Steph normally makes so much sense to me, but when she started explaining what to do, my brain started to die, and my thoughts just went elsewhere. I dont have a computer, so i might be stuck, anyway.
You can do it at an office center too 🙂 i know its really daunting at first, you got this🎉
@@TheSecretSlob I have a huge bin of photos. You gave me some hope! My son sent some off to a company to put them on a cd. So I have a jumping off place, even if I don’t understand the technology.
Wow. Try 30 years of photos I have 15 plastic totes of photos and 16000+ digital photos.
Photos definitely feels like my nemesis. I’m so glad you tackled this!
I think its a problem for a LOT of people!
I've been working on organizing my family photos so I can start scanning them. My photos go all the way back to the late 1950s, so I have quite a few to go through.
Wow it’s a nice project though if at times I’m tiring & emotional! Good luck x
Lol, that's amazing! Love how much space you saved.
I have 14 "finished" scrapbooks. And I think I'm going to take them apart. It's too much and I don't want to look through them. Because I glued all my photos in, including the ones I don't care about. And saved Christmas programs and everything. And it takes up more space than I want it to.
I also have most of my digital photos on google photos, and backed up, but there's a few that aren't added yet - prints from childhood, and some Facebook ones (thanks for that tip!), And a couple cds. Thankfully I don't have photos on old computers or zip drives. I do have some in my email though. You didn't mention that one!
I have more than a terabyte of photos... It's going to take me quite a while to declutter them.
LOl - I have 10 of those photo boxes! Plus all the oversized photos in file folders. And I know what you mean about the digital ones. It's overwhelming - I have over 5,000 on my phone alone. I have been deleting photos, a year at a time, off my phone, when I'm waiting for a phone call or for an appointment or something like that. That is helping.
I love that Friends episode. "Richard, if you are in there..." Lol
I love when Chandler starts singing the Sanford and Son theme song. 😂😂😂
great work. this is one type of clutter, of an endless number of things people can collect or hoard, that i can honestly say i don't have to go thru. phew! i have never been a picture lover...so not easy cuz i am great at decluttering...just easy because i didn't have that obsession! thanks for the tips about how to get rid of the old computers ....i need a video just about that ...step by step!
This is my project for 2021.....it may have to spill into 2022 :0. Being in my 50's, I'm afraid I have Sooo many more paper photos besides digital. Thank you for the ideas. Congratulations on getting the weight off your shoulders!
THANK YOU. I'm buried in photos. I have started to collect all photos from around the house. This is my New Years project. It will take all year. Taking baby steps I'll get it done.
Thank you for all the tips Stephanie! Instead of a hard drive I'd suggest an SSD drive which is very unlikely that will crash or break. Love your channel
I think photo storage is something we all find so hard to manage. I know people that just have boxes of loose photos they don’t know what to do with. I did scrapbooking for a while as it was more for my mental health at first but really enjoyed it. I’d like to do some more but they’re very time consuming. I think just having the mindset to start and do exactly what you’ve done is what I need to do. I will make this a priority for 2021.😊❤️
In March I sat down and organized photos on my computer. I sorted them by year. And then some special events into a seperate folder in that year. For exemple 2018 has photos and folder like vacation, friend wedding, kids birthday... I clean my phone almost every day. And google photos beacuse it uplodes. What I didn't do is a backup...
This came at the perfect time. I've decluttered my entire place. The only things left are paper clutter, letters, cards & photos.
Great tips! I am 26 and have been going through my grandparents pictures. They were born in the 1920's and grew up during the great depression so they saved everything! They have all of their own pictures as well as each of their parents pictures and so on. Trying to organize everything by year. I then plan to sort pictures for my Dad, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins and will probably have to do this for my Dad's cousins as well since there are pictures of them and their parents. Trying to find the best way to do this. So far I have about half of the collection at my house (which is 32 albums worth and a large box of photos) and I am planning on going back to their house and get the rest (at least another 20 albums and more boxes). I have never seen two people save so many pictures. They passed several years ago and we haven't even started to go through their things. After I sort the ones for my family I plan to scan the majority of the others and either make Cd's or flash drives or something for each of them. My Uncle has also talked about a photo book or something. Great tips in your video by the way. It helped out a lot.
You have uploaded so many good videos over the years but WOW - this is the best EVER! I am sure that I will come back to it several times until I have this situation under control.
OMG...this is hanging over me...I am going to tackle this now!!! 10,000+ paper photos and 100,000+++ digital!!!😬
Thank you so much for the tip about transferring photos from fb to google photos! Did it today!
I have started this week every day 15min decluttering foto's from my phone. When that is finished i Will put the ones to safe in the cloud and on external disk. After that i wil do what you did! I hope it Will reach the finish 😄☺️😅. Thanks 👍👍
good for you I've got a ton of albums and bins of moving totes of photos. I so need to do this
Helping my mom declutter, organize, scan and backup 80 years of paper photos. She is not going out at all at this time,as she is high risk, so it was the perfect time. We've just begun but already it feels so much better. Tackling one category of photos at a time. It will be worth it in the end. Doing the digital photos will be easy in comparison.
Love this and need to do this but definitely not as computer savvy. Would love after your January declutter series a step by step tutorial showing the process. Like is google cloud available through computer and phone, ? A app. Then showing how to put photos from devices and on hard drive to cloud. After sorting do you back up on same hard drive or different. If same do you clear out photos you uploaded first? Think visually seeing you go through the steps would really help so many. Your process sounds doable if one knows how do do those things without spending hours researching it on the internet(that seems to be me anyway)themselves. Just and idea if interested, thanks for all your motivating videos!
Good for you Steph! 🤗
Always good to remember Cloud is only ever temporary storage. Google drop programs all the time. That external hard drive is a better place. Dup drives even better.
I have complete photo overload, from all of mine and my husband's family plus our own photos including hobbies and travel. That said they are pretty organised but still lots of room for improvement.
I’m definitely coming back to this video, because it’s so important, but right now I’m trying to find your paper declutter video pertaining to bills, etc. I’m in the thick of doing that right now and need motivation!!❤
I found this information super helpful. Thanks for sharing. Appreciate the links you provided.
Girl, you would not believe how many boxes of paper photos I have! I’ve got shelves in closets filled with boxes. And I also have tens of thousands of digital photos. I know it will be a daunting project, so I’m not letting myself start until I have more pressing projects completed. Granted, I am many, many years older than you, but it’s astonishing how much I have! Some of it I inherited from other family members; lots of it is mine. UGH! Thanks for your tips!
I love your shirt !!! I have only seen that movie a million times lol. I definitely have tons of concert pictures , albums , discs everywhere . yikes . I do have Google photos on my phone though .
Yas! I have 1000s Photos but still love to print. Manage to print all of them a year ago but STILL not put into albums/photo boxes etc then there’s the digital mess I need to organise!!
Last year I had 5000 photos digitized at scancafe. It feels so good to have all the falling apart albums gone. In years past I did 1500 slides. Two external hard drives-one I the safe-keeps them safe. Now to keep it up every year and make some albums so we can enjoy the memories.
Wow! Well done!!
Thank you for the Facebook tip! So many photos from my high school years and current there and last summer I'd spent forever on there pulling photos for a slideshow for my wedding. It'll be great to have the digital stuff in one place. Still chipping away at the physical ones since last April but the pile is so much smaller and the new albums I got all match styles and have an area to write ✍ next to them so I hope to preserve our stories that way too
I needed this video so so much 😨. I have a pretty good handle on paper clutter but photos are another story 🤯.
Love your shirt! 😜
Yes I need to do this!! Thank you so much for the motivation..I bought a hard drive so now I can finally stop procrastinating pictures..blah
Just the motivation I needed! I’ve been dreading this for years. I’ve lost thousands of photos from a laptop crash and have been meaning to centralize my photos ever since. Didn’t have a clue where to start! Thank you for the inspo! 🤩
I am so proud of you, Steph! You lay it all out there for us to see that we are not alone. Thank you!
I did exactly this in 2020! Not completely done yet, but I love it
Thank you for making this seem possible. 🙌 It’s one of those things that just never makes it to my to-do list but is always looming in the background 🤦♀️
I will tackle this today.... Waaaaa. Thanx for your inspiration 🙏
Love your hair!
I started my photo declutter a few days ago as my phone was running very slow. I'm still busy moving photos to my external drive, there are tones of thousands of them but I'm glad I'm doing it. I didn't think of my printed photos. Thank you for the reminder.
I take soooo many photos! I scrapbook traditionally and also Project Life style. I definitely need to get them all in one place.
I’m only watching this because I like you. The idea of dealing with digital photos stresses me out 😂. Also, thank you for sharing Jill’s bread baking video today. I laughed so hard!
Thank you!! Not very many people make a video about organizing photos. This is super helpful!
😳😳😳 Wow!!!!! I NEED to do this! But the time it will take!!!! Ugh! You’ve inspired me for sure to add this to my list of projects to tackle! Thank you!
I think the recommendation is 1-2 hard drives and one cloud storage. I got an external hard drive to back up my computer, and then also used Google photos. I also agree to automate uploads to google, since I lost a phone and the 3 years of photos in it. Then I go through every few weeks to declutter and then back up.
Thank you for this video! I find it sooo intimidating to look at all my physical photos and think "Oh man, I have to make sooo many photo albums, it will take forever". I never thought about just storing them in a box. So simple. And then I can finally have a free mind. Brilliant! :D
I found a roll of film too in a box from my teens. I think it was Cher from late 70's I doubt it will come out well ; ) Thanks for all the tips
haha yes!! I hope you get it developed! I am waiting on my mystery roll at the photoshop now!
This is so crazy, I was just searching the other day for an idea of what to do with all my photos. Then you read my mind and made a video! Thanks!
I'm so glad!
Some really good tips . Thanks
I don't have much paper declutter , however pictures I'll try to do this one a couple of days!! Paper photos oh my goodness😜!! Thanxs for this video!!
It's still a daunting project, but I put it on my project list now and I will get to it eventually. At least I have an idea of how to get started now ... thank you! :)
Getting started is that hardest part!
Yes!! The blinking photos!! Aaargh!!!
❤️❤️❤️ A friend of mine clips greeting cards together per event, all birthday cards from that year, all wedding cards, etc. I don’t collect mine but I thought that was a cool idea if you do.
Such perfect timing! I have been enjoying ALL your videos but this has been the most needed advice. Thank you!
Ps. Love your Top Gun inspired shirt
Steph You are soooo motivational! Thank you for the link for the adapter. I just ordered it and I can’t wait to start getting all of my SD cards transferred!😊😊. You have a gift for making even the most difficult task doable! Thank you for your sunny disposition! 🥰🥰
I definitely still have little disposable cameras from high school and I graduated in 2002. I don't even know if I could develop them right now I definitely want to though I feel like those are really happy times of my life and I had a lot of fun adventures with friends.
Recommended video. Just subscribed and am now "motivated" to begin tackling my photo problem. However, it's not just a photo problem, it's my kids' treasures from growing up. For example, all of the coloring book pages that went on the fridge or the art stuff that came home from school or the essays they got a nice note on from the teacher. I have 4 adult children and the youngest is in grad school. I had at one point 27 totes of treasures and photos. I have cut down some of it. My question though: how do you dispose of the items once you go through the process of backing it all up. I have such an emotional attachment and empty nest syndrome that I can't seem to let it go....😭😭😭
PS. You look like the age of one of my kids so I don't exactly expect an answer to that question, unless you are a therapist....😂. Thanks!
I need to do this. So helpful!
I feel you! I haven't stuck a single photo in album since my children were born - so for 24 years. Last year I sorted and pasted photos for weeks. All digital are in iCloud and on Google Photos. It feels so good now! Greetings from Germany.
WOW! well done! I know that feeling!
This was extremely satisfying to see the end result! Thanks for the inspiration!!!!
Great ideas and ways to organize the photos... i was looking and needed this because i have a locker full of boxes with photos...I’m 63 so i have accumulated a lot of pic .....plus all the photos on devices....thank u so much i really appreciate it!!!!!
Love your shirt!
Been on this clutter series all month just waiting for this perfect video. I needed some validation on how I wanted to handle photos and my hoard of greeting cards. Thanks for this video, you have a new subscriber!!
This is a HUGE goal for me. I neeeeed to organize photos!!!
I need to do this and thought about if for two years. But my brain is so tired so I don't know how. At least I am upploading the digital files to a cloud right now, in case the house burns down. This video was pushing me so at least I started that important step. Thank you for the inspiration!
Hello Steph! Thank you so much for this video...i am reading the omment section full of cries for help, so it's for sure a common struggle.
What I love about you is your positive attitude and patience to do things step by step, having faith in yourself and not trying to make things perfect. It's incredible to discover that we are often our own worst enemy in that sense! You give me proof that are not projects to be overwhelming, but it's rather our expectations on our ownselves!...Please consider
Thank you for the inspiration! ❤️
Your eyes are unreal :) new lighting?
The video is super helpful, and at the perfect time! Thank you.
Thanks! Maybe because my shirt is green?
Thanks so much for this video - I have been wanting to tackle this for years, but always felt overwhelmed 😩 Very keen to get started now so I can sleep easy too!
i save birthday/christmas cards so you made me feel better
I love them :)
LOVE IT! You always seem to know my hidden stressors---clothes, photos, storage room!! I hope we do the garage too!! Have an AMAZING day Steph! :)
I needed this inspiration!!! 🙌 Thank you so much!!
Thank you! I have tons in tubs like 5/6 tubs and several devices to get together!
I am so glad I’m not the only one that has rolls of film🥴
I have saved this video to reference as we go through photos. I especially appreciated the explanations of technological resources. Thanks so much.
Just have ten photos on my iPad. I divided the physical photos between the children, They have scanned the historic ones, I have the originals in a museum acid free box. I have one annotated album. Senior senior here before the age of digital photography. A few of the favorites were copied onto canvas and are on the wall. We sorted Alan’s fam and picked out what he wanted in a physical album. We sorted the rest into envelopes to be mailed or dropped off for his fam. Two are being mailed out this morning. I personally do not have any paper or digital clutter, but Alan is a writer/ historian....
Wow!! This is exactly what I need to do!! Thank you, this is soooo helpful!
Great job! I feel overwhelmed with all my pictures. 🤨 I’ve been married 30 years and I have all them in one place but really don’t know where to start. Maybe I should just separate them for each of my 3 children in a photo box. Thanks for the inspiration 🥰
If you don't know where to start,your children won't either. It's good you have them all in one place. I took time to sort my mum's photos for her - 55years worth! Start by binning the photos of scenery and animals....this can always be googled, bin pictures of ex partners, ex friends, ppl who give you bad memories. Then pics of ppl you don't know or who aren't in your immediate family....pass on to other family members if you feel they would appreciate them. Then with what you have left,sort by person....eg put all pics of your daughter on her own together and in a rough age order, then all ones of Ur husband on his own, then ones of family photos altogether,tho this is just the easiest way I found to sort my mum's. X
Thank you! I need to declutter 20 stick on photo album!
You’re so lucky. Photos in a small bin. I’m 60, have YEARS & YEARS of photos of all sizes, like 10x13 etc. Plus the digital photos since the beginning of that era. Not to mention the tons I have in frames. Ugh. Nightmare.
This is exactly what I have been working on for weeks! Ahhh I wish I was finished like you!!! Lol 😂 Some great tips, that I didn’t consider! Thanks Steph! 👏
I like to make photobook’s. It helps keep the photos organized and declutter at the same time. When i come home from a trip i try to make a photobook right away. I will upload all the photos onto my computer from my phone, decide which ones I’m putting in the book and then delete the rest. The ones I’m keeping get backed up onto an external hard drive for safe keeping. Photobooks takes up very minimal space and I can have hundreds of photos that are organized by event, year, person etc. It started with just me but now my whole family is involved in the photobook making process, helping to choose what photos they want to put in the book.
I so needed these tips. Thank you!!
Excellent ideas! I'll get to work today!
You’re so beautiful!!! And this is such a wonderful and helpful video! Always a pleasure to watch your videos! Have a wonderful week! 😊
Thank you, Steph! Photos have been a real stumbling block on my road to organization.
Thank you! I like the idea of an external hard drive. You've given me inspiration
Perfect timing for this. I was just saying I need to start working on all the photos I have and this will help a lot!! Thank you.
Thank you so much. That was my next job that I have been putting off for some time. I will start today now that I know what I have to do. Love you videos. Thank you for taking time out of your busy life to help so many of us to sort out our messy homes. X
It is my pleasure 😊 I was dreading this task too, but once I got started, it was actually quite enjoyable!
Hi Steph, I found your channel with the January declutter challenge and love your content! This was so timely as I’m tackling this project right now! I was so glad to hear I’m not the only person who keeps greeting cards LOL. I regularly declutter my house so the other areas in the series haven’t been too bad and I’ve been trying to stay focused on my photo project. So much is tied into sorting photos with memories and such. I have been really good about putting all of my paper photos in albums up until 2005 when everything went digital. I love the way you showed how to do digital photos. This is where I have been stuck. Any ideas on how to digitize paper photos that are in albums? Short of taking them all out of the albums I’m not sure what to do. I have about 12 albums. Would love to see a video when you put your digital photos in albums and how you do that.
I am not sure about scanning photos in books. But I recommend searching a photo scanning specialist, they will know!
Double the age (yours). And triple the photo collection and you might have my photo collection. It is huge, and this is very useful!
Alright you actually made me do it!! I was following you doing it on IG so i started by printing my digital pictures, i did part one, and i bought my first album ever lol