Organizing photographs

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Many people store photographs in plastic bags, shoe boxes, envelopes from the photo developing company, and in those old albums with sticky plastic pages. I was no exception, until two years ago when I chose to remove all of my photos from the various photo albums I had acquired throughout the years and transfer them into an archival, acid-free box like this Archival Photo Box from pixologieinc.com.

Best decision ever!

This photo box allowed me to organize the photos how I wished and to label them appropriately. Best of all, it holds up to 2400 pictures. 

The most time-consuming part was removing all of the pictures from the album and tossing any that were out of focus, or those in which I didn't recognize anyone, or places I didn't remember, or duplicates, so then I was left with a much smaller amount of pictures. Then it was a matter of putting the photos in (somewhat) chronological order and sliding them into the boxes' compartments.

I'm thrilled to have my loose photos all in one place, AND the photo box takes up much less room on my bookshelf than bulky photo albums. More space and more order. Bam!