Amity
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I am the official picture-taker of my whole family....those under my roof and extended. I've always been the one out of all of them that had the more decent of all the cameras at a family gathering. Therefore, out of 100 photos I can probably find myself in maybe 5 or 6 of those 100 photos.
The first 6 years of married life I dutifully got back my pictures from K-mart or Gemco and placed them lovingly in a photo album and using a felt-tip pen titled the top of each page of the album with the date and maybe a notation about what the pictures were about.
Somewhere going into the 7th year of marriage and the 4th child, photos got developed (well, most of the time) but there was just no time to place them in order in an album. I would get the pictures back in a tall paper envelope and inside that envelope were two other envelopes....one contained the developed photos and the other contained the negatives. When I would get those envelopes of developed photos they went wherever they fit....drawers, shoe boxes, moving boxes, under sofa cushions, stuck in a bookcase between a couple hundred books.
In my tenth year of marriage my mother gave me her large hope chest. Perfect! I spent a day gathering up all the photos all over the house and attic and piled them in the hope chest. No rhyme or reason, just piled and packed in there and closed the lid.
Back in 2002, my sister decided to get crafty and got into scrapbooking and stamping. There were photos she wanted that I had. It was a huge task to now put all the photos together by year as I had removed many of the photos from the original envelope to make more room in the hope chest.
I would find Photo A and once we established that it was of a certain year; of Christmas of '88, we'd take note of what all the kids in the photo were wearing then go about looking for all the photos that matched. Even if there wasn't a Christmas Tree or other Christmas decoration in the photo, we could tell it went with the others because of the clothing of all the kids in the photos. We'd do the same for birthday photos...there was at least one photo of the cake and people surrounding the cake were wearing certain clothing.
All this to say, it's not hard to match up photos to the year they were taken once you have the first one as a reference. It's much less time consuming than I thought it would be. So, what's the hold-up with MK's x-wife...unless, there is no photo?
And yes, unfortunately I'm still as UNorganized today as I was back then.
The first 6 years of married life I dutifully got back my pictures from K-mart or Gemco and placed them lovingly in a photo album and using a felt-tip pen titled the top of each page of the album with the date and maybe a notation about what the pictures were about.
Somewhere going into the 7th year of marriage and the 4th child, photos got developed (well, most of the time) but there was just no time to place them in order in an album. I would get the pictures back in a tall paper envelope and inside that envelope were two other envelopes....one contained the developed photos and the other contained the negatives. When I would get those envelopes of developed photos they went wherever they fit....drawers, shoe boxes, moving boxes, under sofa cushions, stuck in a bookcase between a couple hundred books.
In my tenth year of marriage my mother gave me her large hope chest. Perfect! I spent a day gathering up all the photos all over the house and attic and piled them in the hope chest. No rhyme or reason, just piled and packed in there and closed the lid.
Back in 2002, my sister decided to get crafty and got into scrapbooking and stamping. There were photos she wanted that I had. It was a huge task to now put all the photos together by year as I had removed many of the photos from the original envelope to make more room in the hope chest.
I would find Photo A and once we established that it was of a certain year; of Christmas of '88, we'd take note of what all the kids in the photo were wearing then go about looking for all the photos that matched. Even if there wasn't a Christmas Tree or other Christmas decoration in the photo, we could tell it went with the others because of the clothing of all the kids in the photos. We'd do the same for birthday photos...there was at least one photo of the cake and people surrounding the cake were wearing certain clothing.
All this to say, it's not hard to match up photos to the year they were taken once you have the first one as a reference. It's much less time consuming than I thought it would be. So, what's the hold-up with MK's x-wife...unless, there is no photo?
And yes, unfortunately I'm still as UNorganized today as I was back then.