Organizing Photos the Easy Way: Simple tips to organize photographs, negatives and memories

Organizing Photos the Easy Way: Simple tips to organize photographs, negatives and memoriesAre you overwhelmed by your photographs? Have you got years and years worth of photos that have never even made it out of the film developers envelopes? Worse yet, have you got rolls and rolls of film that havent even been developed? Are you up to your eyeballs in boxes and stashes of photos that are a jumbled mess? Wondering how youll ever manage to organize the old photos youve inherited when youre already frazzled by your own collection? Feeling frustrated by rummaging through your piles in search of a special photograph only to come up empty handed? Have you slowed down or even stopped your picture taking because you just don’t know where you’d put any more photos? Are you fed up with feeling overwhelmed and guilty about your out-of-control photo collection?


Save Your Photos… …and Your Sanity&#153 How to Organize and Safeguard Your Entire Photograph Collection in as Little as 10 Days 104 pages by Christine Sutton and Tracey DuBois $1.00 from the sale of each book is donated to Camp Sunshine, a retreat program for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.



"Save Your Photos and Your Sanity is a must-read if you’re a photo saver, a scrapper or if you just don’t know what to do with the years of accumulated pictures that haunt your basement and closets." — Monica Ricci, Organizing Expert, Author, Radio Host and HGTV regular (Mission Organization)


Here’s what just a few of our customers are saying: Dear Chris and Tracey, . . . I finally pushed myself to sort my photos… this is after years of procrastinating and searching for every excuse under the sun to not get started. It was perfectionism at its worst. I had read tons of stuff, asked for tips in chat rooms and purchased boxes & stuff to get it done. Your web site was my final stop…. You guy’s got me to do it ! I got your book & printed a copy , put each page in a sheet protector ( you see this allowed me to procrastinate for another week :) It was the female touch in your book that clicked with me. Because I had so many photos I had to use really big plastic boxes… I am now in the final phase of identifying stray negatives and a bunch of "stray" photos. . . . I have been riding high on the sense of accomplishment with that enormous weight lifted from my shoulders Love you guys & thanks, Joanne PS The feeling is as good as losing weight!


Hello Ladies, I did get all of my photos sorted and marked and in envelopes a short time after I received your e-book, which, believe me was no small task!!! That was the most important and biggest job, and I am sooooooo happy about that. I would NEVER have been able to get accomplished as well without your e-book!!! If that is all I ever do, It is very much worth it. I am so grateful that I found your website. I have bought scrapbooking supplies since then started a scrapbook…Thank you again for your help, and it is really nice that you follow up with the e-mails, They help to keep me from just completely forgetting about it and they remind me that I really do want to get back to the task! I do save your monthly tips so I have them available for when I need a reminder of your good ideas. Sincerely, Lois


Dear Chris and Tracey- I organized my photos! I thought your book was great. It was exactly what I was looking for. A step-by-step process to get me going. I used the 10-day plan and stretched my "10 days" into a few months and probably more than 10 days. I had one particularly difficult group of photos from a big trip to Africa in 2001 — a lot of them looked the same, they were all mixed up, I wanted to capture many of the negatives for enlargements later, and I didn’t want to part with any of them.:-) But they are organized. Next steps will be to enlarge and frame some of my favorites and do some scrapbooking for past (and future!) vacations. It was an amazingly satisfying project that I could not have done without your book, girls… You guys are great — I’d be excited to read more of your work and more tips. Thanks! Amy


Hi Chris, I am happy to report that I finally downloaded "Save Your Sanity and Your Photos" a few days ago, printed it out, and read it in its entirety (not bad for someone who hates to read! ;-) Anyway, it was good, informative, light reading. Some information reiterated what I already knew, and I learned a lot I didn’t know. I guess what makes me the most anxious is that I have "been here" before! You know, the point where you are determined to get your mammoth photo project underway. Something has always managed to get in the way, or fall through the cracks, and was put on the backburner. AGAIN! (Freud, where are you?!) I could really relate to the "Top 5 reasons people put off photo organization!" Especially the perfectionist and emotional factors. I will NOT let anything stand in my way this time. (My husband laughs at me when I say that!) I have established my "working area" and cleared out all the clutter to make it neat and approachable. I am not sure which "method" I will use yet. Probably a combination of the 3. The reason that I got stuck initially (when I stopped organizing photos into albums), which is the same reason that has prevented me from proceeding with this formidable project for the last 9 years, is deciding "HOW" I want to organize my photos. When my first child was born, it was easy. I made a "first year" photo album for him. Nothing fancy. No journal or scrapbooking. But it looks nice… Read more…