Project for the long weekend!

[cjsmith]

Originally my family vacation was going to start today, so when its dates got changed, I was left without any particular Labor Day weekend plans. A three-day weekend with no particular plans! So I made a list of things I'd like to get done:

• Get my whole DRAWER full of clothes awaiting repair or modification to a tailor finally
• Buy new shoes, or repair the ones I have on (they have a hole under each big toe)
• Write material for my next big square dance weekend, coming up soon
• Get plane tickets for said square dance weekend, since I can't trust that we won't sell the airplane before I have to go
• Get plane tickets for my family vacation

Of course, I am now immersed in a project that is none of these. :-) I am sorting and organizing all of the photographs I've taken since probably about 1989.

I used to be really good about sorting things as I went along. Then I lived in Paris for a while, took lots of pictures, and came back to the States only to discover that anything developed in a European photo lab won't fit in American albums. Oops. So every time I thought about organizing photos, from that point on, I would try to figure out a decent solution to the problem of a few hundred photographs I didn't want to cut up with scissors. Well... more than a decade later... it's time to move on, SKIP that problem for now, and sort everything ELSE.

This ought to be fun.

Naturally, I now have a somewhat similar problem: many of these photos are 3x5, and those albums are extinct! :-( I may just have to put the smaller photos in 4x6 albums. Ugly ugly ugly... but maybe that's what I get for letting it go so long.

Comments

How about a scrapbook type thing?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Sticky pages, or using photo corners on paper? Then the photo size wouldn't matter.

Re: How about a scrapbook type thing?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I think I can find some that'll fit, but I like the photo corners idea just in case!

Simple solution

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Why not just buy some European photo albums? I'm guessing you can find them online. Or I can just ask someone to buy them in Amsterdam next time he's there.

Re: Simple solution

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Just as an additional note, I'm pretty sure 3x5 albums are not extinct.I believe there is one on the list here, I just found this: http://www.cameraamerica.com/albums/standard.htm

Re: Simple solution

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely right; I went to Long's and found two types. Of course, they both sucked, but hey -- two choices at the first store I tried. That's pretty good.

I'm just about far enough along that I'm ready for albums! (Isn't that pathetic?) :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

HAH. I have learned of the evils of Auto-Format and HTML. I have Edited this entry and lo, my sins are washed away.