Family photo file
Organize your family photos and videos.
Many of us consider personal videos and photos to be the most valuable property in our homes. Why not organize them so they’re safe, easily accessible, and simple to view? This can be a daunting task if your photos are all over the place. If that’s the case, at least spend this day gathering them and taking inventory, saving the more complicated organizing for later.
If you have mostly hard copy photos, make an index card for each year, and stack all your photos in a pile in the right year. That’s a big start for many of us. If you get all the photos stacked in the right year and still have time, go through one year at a time and group the photos by subject. Look how much you’ve accomplished!
Bonus * There are no “big” holidays in sight, so your dining room table might be free to handle this task right now.
If you have mostly digital photos, organize them in folders by year and subject/event. Be sure to save all your digital photo and video files to two places. One could be your hard drive, one could be a removable hard drive (used for file storage), one could be CDs, one could be flash drives. It’s always best to have digital files in two places. Just in case.
