Old photo album ideas

First we tackled scrapbooks. Today we're moving on to photo albums, the bulky wonders of personal history we all have stashed inside our homes that risk our photos and memories.

The typical family has thousands of photos stored in their homes, and many of them are haphazardly shuffled into photo albums. There is one problem, though: these hulking collections tend to take up a lot of space. But what can you do about it? In this guide, we discuss some of the most common ways to refresh and repurpose the photo albums of yesteryear – from digitizing your photos to making them into cute gifts or buying the best photo album to display your memories.

Honestly, I love scrapbooks, but I think their time is coming to an end. At least the kind of scrapbooks where each page is carefully arranged by hand and placed into a plastic page protector and then held in a huge and bulky binder! I probably have about 10 of these because I did one for my husband and started them for my kids, etc. They take up so much space that they are kept in a cupboard in the basement, so no one really even looks at them! On top of that, most of my scrapbooks are…

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Energized by our early success in our 30-day decluttering challenge, I decided to spend the next 3 days decluttering photo albums. Tricky!

With boxes of old photos, it is time to find a better way to organise old family photos and create a lovely organised photo collection.

Photo albums are a tangible testament to your life, memories, and work. They're also a great way to organize them, so they don't get lost in the shuffle. And while we're all for the digital world of photographs, nothing can go above the feeling of running your fingers over an old photo of happy gatherings. You probably have many pictures on your phone and don't even remember many of them being taken. Don't worry because there's something better than scrolling through the photos on your…

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