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another box of photos!

AMHAMH
edited November 2011 in General Banter
really, i think I documented everything for the last 21 years of being a parent. I though i was finding a box of old papers I just needed to file, and here is an entire box of photos. So I need another album just for the CD's with index prints because I found a lot of those from scanning in all the negatives and prints from at least 1 years. Okay someone tell me it is ok to throw away ALL the negatives since i put them all on CD's myself when I worked in a photo lab.

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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    Oh yeah, chuck them out.

    Then see how long your gut instinct takes to cut in and say - "Nooooo! Pull them out the trash can RIGHT NOW!!!!"
  • AMHAMH
    ha ha, well my oldest who does not live with me any longer would freak as the family photographer. But I don't have to tell her since it is all on CD's.

    I put that aside and was dealing with the backed up papers, okay i STINK-OLA abotu papers. Ever since my short sale/foreclosure I just get anxiety attacks over paperwork, opening mail, answring phone calls. I have worked with a counselor and from that got a better diagnoses with great medications, so now I better get it done. I would MUCH rather be working on my current story, but this will be hanging over my head sooo,

    Okay 8 poiunds so far! that is the weight of the trash of return envelopes ( I pay online), blank or old papers, duplicates, etc. really 8 pounds and I am just over halfway done with my bag. I get a gold star, not for letting it get so bad (which i am using self compassion on but for getting it worked on.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    I've been clearing out today too. I actually threw away several dozen batches of negatives and prints of stuff I'll never ever need. Haven't needed it once since I saved it, so I probably won't start needing it now...

    Feels good doesn't it?

  • AMHAMH
    Oh yes it does! over a year ago i downsized by over 50% of everything I had. Went from a large house in the suburbs to a small rental downtown. I thought I had gotten rid of about everything I could imagine, but here is even more!

    I figure at least 15 lbs of trash in this project so far. I am done for the day/weekend. I haven't touched the photos or negative yet, but that is okay. Nap or reading time or cushion time, ahhh
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I own very little and it does feel good. The more you have, the more you have to lose. My GF is quite the opposite, she is not an extreme hoarder, but she has so much stuff that she never used or thinks she needs to hang on to. When we moved from place to place, finally in this house I had one bag, she had five.

  • theotherlaratheotherlara Explorer
    Ha, I just shredded photos (of myself/childhood) the other night...I'm so ready to be rid of them I had to shred them, just to make sure they'd never ((easily)) be seen again, lol.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    The thought for my comes into being theotherlara, what was the intention behind the shredding. If you honestly study it mentally? I shredded, well no I set fire to a whole bunch of photos and letters of an ex, but that was due to attachment and anger.
  • AMHAMH
    I worked in a photo lab and any leftover photos we shredded. There was a rare case where a families photo was used for some advertising campaign. So rather than have a photo used by the wrong person I would shred any photos you do not want to keep.

  • theotherlaratheotherlara Explorer
    edited November 2011
    I worked in a photo lab and any leftover photos we shredded. There was a rare case where a families photo was used for some advertising campaign. So rather than have a photo used by the wrong person I would shred any photos you do not want to keep.
    @ThailandTom basically the intention was the same as AHeerdt has mentioned...I've had a pretty severe past stalker and so anything with my identity in/on/around/mentioned has to be shredded just in case. And those in particular just because I didn't need them, they were sitting in a box, never looked at. So I suppose my motivation was combination of not feeling I needed to keep the photos, fear of lack of safety.

    :) I don't keep much of anything, really. Photos included.
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