One day I was trying to pull a shoebox off the top shelf of my closet, and I accidentally hit my stack of photo albums. To my horror, they toppled off the shelf and hit the floor with a resounding THUD! As it did, the photos went flying out of them like a mini blizzard. They went flying on the bed, under the bed and into my closet. I just stood there with my mouth open, I kept thinking "oh NO, they were all sorted!" I had always kept my photos separated in albums by person or event. Now they were anything but separated!
After collecting all the pictures, I realized the pictures were not the only thing out of sorts. I was too! It was going to be a monumental task to sort all these photos back in the right album and put them in the right order. I just sat there on the floor with my head in my hands. There had to be a better way of dealing the photographs other than putting them in albums. I stacked the albums in the corner and put the photos in a shoe box on top and I decided to check on Amazon to see if they had anything for photos.
I typed in "photo organizers and storage" The first to pop up was a box with separate individual boxes inside. It was plastic, with a handle and also water proof! I thought "that could work!" I looked further into the description. It had snap tight closures and the large one could hold up to 1800 pictures!! Wow! The box was 14.25" x 10.6" x 4.72" and had 18 inner boxes, which held up to 100 4 x 6 photographs. I was sold and I bought this one:
If you wanted a smaller version for less photographs they also make 7 inner box and 9 inner box, however, they are almost the same price as the one I bought. They look like this:
When it arrived, i liked it immediately. It was very compact, and easy to store. The interior boxes were sturdy and snapped closed. They even included small stickers so you could label each small box as to what pictures were in it! I was ready to start. First I sorted the shoebox of photos into categories then each category into individual people or events. I chose a box, put a label on it and then arranged the photos in order. Since most events don't have 100 pictures, I clipped them with these, they were perfect because of all the sizes:
I was very pleased when all the boxes were full. They were so neat and tidy! All in their place, labeled with what was in them. So much better than those bulky albums, especially when the stickiness wears off the pages due to age and the photos get loose, which is why mine went flying when they hit the floor. There was only one spot of bad news......
I have more pictures! They all did not fit in the one box!
So I ordered another one, of course!
I really cannot recommend these photo organizers highly enough. They are so compact and make finding pictures so easy. I will never use anything else for my photographs!
