NoReallyThatHappened Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 The recent facebook thread made me wonder what other people did. When I first started dating (90's) I had all hard copies. Since 2005/2006 I've had almost exclusively digital photos. I have a few photographs from previous relationships but I didn't keep everything that I hard in hard copy. They all are stored in a box that lives somewhere in the attic. The pictures are probably melted together at this point. I do keep all my digital photos and just hid the ex's away in deeply buried folders. I seem to have tons of pictures from relationships now where I only had a few of previous ones. The only exception are photos of my exH. I set them all on fire save our prom photos in case any future children wanted to see me at prom and the wedding album (only because it didn't seem flammable).
Silivren Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 I've got all my photos and I mean ALL of them in a box.. I mean to find time to sort through them and make proper photo albums.. I have children.. so I tried to weed out all the ex photos there are still some there, and I don't have the heart to burn my old wedding photos.. not for any feelings for the ex but because those are my kids memories as well.
Author NoReallyThatHappened Posted September 7, 2011 Author Posted September 7, 2011 I've got all my photos and I mean ALL of them in a box.. I mean to find time to sort through them and make proper photo albums.. I have children.. so I tried to weed out all the ex photos there are still some there, and I don't have the heart to burn my old wedding photos.. not for any feelings for the ex but because those are my kids memories as well. In my case I had no children with my exH so that wasn't an issue for me. I think my mom actually saved a couple more landmark photos with him that are probably somewhere. My grandmother exacto-knifed his head out of every family photo though!!
sm1tten Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 I keep the pictures in a box. I sometimes think of throwing them away, as I never look at them. The digital pictures I've recently started deleting.
Stung Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 I have "memory boxes" from specific eras, i.e. high school/college, specific ones for a few different countries I lived in in my 20s, and boxes for my kids. There are special pics in those boxes along with mementos and letters, etc. I keep the ones for my kids out on my dresser, but the other ones which have stuff from ex-lovers etc. are up on a shelf in a closet. I have photo albums on my bookshelves of the last several years, my life with my husband and our kids. All those pictures have been scanned and also exist on hard drive and in online albums. I also have a drawer full of random photos that weren't sentimental enough to make it into the memory boxes or albums, but were interesting enough not to throw away. Those have not been scanned, and I occasionally think I might get around to it but it hasn't happened yet. Almost all the pics from my childhood are at my parents house and none of them are backed up that I'm aware of. I also lost most of the good pics of myself from my teens and 20s when I made an album for my sick grandmother and they just...disappeared, after she passed away. I have kind of a gross feeling that they were taken by one of her in-home hospice caregivers who always gave me a weird vibe and asked me out once. This thread is making me realize I should scan in some of the photos that I have framed and set out around my house. Some of them, like wedding pics, are already online, but some of them are from my childhood and are irreplaceable.
OnyxSnowfall Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 I just started thinking about it more. I actually DO have some pictures of one of my exes (the father of my children)... buuut, in my defense (), it's because he's with our firstborn and I kept it for him, not me Otherwise I got rid of any pictures that included my exes... printed and digital...
EnigmaticClarity Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 Otherwise I got rid of any pictures that included my exes... printed and digital... Why? I like to keep everything. My ex painted me a few pictures, I've got those as well. I can't see destroying something someone took so much time to create for me. I'm wondering if they'll end up causing me grief some day from whoever I'm with at the time.
coolheadal Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 The hard copy ones I just stick them in a card for her birthday which I never gave her. The digital ones I started to place them in the HER folder. Remove them off the system onto DVD-R+ and put on it the words THE PAST!
Bridgey Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 Everything went into a box when we broke up, then a few months later when I was cleaning and organizing I found the box and realized it was just taking up space. I threw almost everything out because I really didn't need it lying around. I still have the good memories of when we were together, but we're done now and the last thing I need is unnecessary stuff taking up space in my place I still have some digital photos in a file on an old computer I never use anymore
O'Malley Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 I keep my personal photos in a smaller fireproof safe -- more of my photos, including images of my great grandparents and grandparents, as well as my father's pictures from his war service, are in a larger safe at my sister's and mother's home. I kept some photos of my ex and myself, they're nice reminders of concerts or outings with friends, a few are with two of my pets who both passed away many years ago. Those memories are meaningful to me, and I'm not throwing them away simply because an ex boyfriend is in the images. My longtime boyfriend knows about and has seen some of the pictures, and it's never been an issue.
Recommended Posts