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Trash them!!! We won't think poorly of you😊
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I have been working on the tedious and long process of removing all of our old photos out of those magnetic photo pages and other random albums and putting everything into uniform slip pages and 3 ring binders. It looks so much cleaner and nicer on the shelves and is looking like it's going to take half the space when I'm done so I am ecstatic!
I now have a bunch of old empty photo albums and I have no idea what to do with them.
I was thinking I could pull the metal rings out of them so the cardboard and metal can be recycled. Can I donate the empty binders? I have no desire to be crafty with them. I just want to get rid of them!
The trash is looking really good right now since tomorrow's trash day but I wanted to see if there was something a bit more environmentally friendly I could do instead.
Thanks!
Everyone agreed with the trash so...out they've gone! I wish I hadn't run out of photo pages. I want to finish! Still have more to do but it's looking nice and the kids are having the best time seeing all these old pictures.
Bug, that sounds like the coolest project!! I love crafting but my craft room is so overwhelming right now that I just don't want to start something new until I clear out the stuff that got put there that doesn't even belong in there.
ChristyLee, scanning is the next step in all of this. I am actually pricing scanners that scan the negatives instead of the photo itself right now. Every negative we have are all 100% organized in slip pages in 3 ring binders and completely labeled/dated. I did that several years ago. I matched them all up to the photos in the albums, they are in the binders in date order. We had to evacuate years ago due to wild fires.. At the time it was all disorganized in boxes in a cupboard (at least it was all in the same cupboard) and really took up a lot of space in the car. When things settled down I went to work on organizing, consolidating etc. All of that stuff now stays in a plastic storage tub in the bedroom closet that can be grabbed in an instant. We also transitioned to digital around 2006. Of course none of this helps if we're not home and there's a fire. But I'm taking all the steps. Just a matter of time and money ;)
Trash them!!! We won't think poorly of you😊
Have you heard of freecycle? You could list it on that. You would be amazed what people want.
If I lived near you, I would take them! I cut the backs and covers off, and bind them into journals with the paper I make.
Unless you do freecycle, I'd throw them away.
I'm with Jo ... Pitch 'em.
If you are talking about those static kind of photo albums I would not recycle them. God knows what they are actually made of. I vote trash.
I'd try to freecycle them. I actually use one for my recipes.
Trash, trash, trash. Congrats on your reorganization! :)
Trash them.
I also highly recommend that you use a flatbed scanner to scan all of your photos and put them onto Shutterfly or another photo site. You can even store your photos on Facebook without posting them now. It's a safe way to store them in case of fire. :-)
