09-14-2012, 03:30 AM
One thing to remember in the culling process is WHOSE memories are being preserved.
We were cleaning the house of a very dear friend who'd died and we ended up having to discard 9 or 10 Carousels of slides she'd taken over the years. The problem for us was that we did not know the location nor the people in them. They were her history and memories, not ours.
It hurt to do this because we were in a sense discarding her life, but we did not know the people or places.
Kids sorting through (or not) your photos will face the same thing. Do they know, or value, the people and places represented?
We were cleaning the house of a very dear friend who'd died and we ended up having to discard 9 or 10 Carousels of slides she'd taken over the years. The problem for us was that we did not know the location nor the people in them. They were her history and memories, not ours.
It hurt to do this because we were in a sense discarding her life, but we did not know the people or places.
Kids sorting through (or not) your photos will face the same thing. Do they know, or value, the people and places represented?