Share the Memories

In my family, we all really enjoy looking at old photos. The kids love the album my mother-in-law made back in the day of my husband’s early years.

I tried my best to keep on top of photos of the kids’ early days in albums of my own.

And when I had a little extra time, I even got into scrapbooking.

 

Ever since going digital about five years ago, I’ve been great about saving my photos, using them for slideshows, photobooks and e-cards. 

But I do have shoeboxes full of old photos and negatives from my childhood, university days, old trips we took, the first years of marriage and our first two babies. The thought of those boxes and boxes of old photos does niggle at my brain.

This morning I got an email from Blacks in my in-box offering to let me “make my memories last forever”. Sure, I have a scanner, and if I had a spare week month I might find the time to scan and save them all. However, with that spare week month I might find it a priority to grocery shop, clean the house, book and attend dentist appointments, etc.

So, Black’s offer to scan 500 photos, or 400 slides, or 400 negatives onto a DVD for me for $99.99 is perfect. Bring your overstuffed shoebox into Blacks, wait a few weeks (weeks that you can enjoy grocery shopping, cleaning, etc!!) and then have them all returned to you on a DVD. Simple as can be.

What you do with those photos once they’re digital is up to you, but I can imagine

• creating school years photobooks (class photos, first day of school, school concert photos) to entertain my kids!
• creating photobooks for grandparents for Christmas gifts (nothing gets the tears flowing on Christmas morning like old photos!)
• incorporating some of the old photos of summers spent at the family cottage when I was young with photos of my kids at the same cottage this summer into a photo collage

Most importantly, I’d sleep better knowing that those photos were saved to my hard drive and backed up on an external drive, and not shoved into a shoebox somewhere.