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Wonderful and so very helpful. I went thru this process many years ago after my parents passed. It was interesting for me to process the different emotions that arose. As I have no one to leave photos to when I eventually pass, the process of what to keep was a bit different than those who have children and siblings. I sent some photos to extended family who I thought may enjoy seeing them. I kept very few for myself. There was some sadness realizing the photo life of my parents wouldn't continue on. My own photos from my youth were much easier to declutter. I gained much insight into myself, and I am comfortable with my decisions. Beautifully filmed Benita.

Outstanding!! Thank you, Benita. We just moved my 97 year old mother and, in downsizing, a large cedar chest with family photos has come home with me. Your guidance has given a thoughtful, simple way to begin sorting through them. Can't thank you enough!!

I find the idea of decluttering photos very intimidating, particularly because we just lost my dad last summer. But your wonderful video has made me feel I could accomplish this in the near future. ❤️

"Random pigs" OMG! LOL! When my mom passed away back in 2014 I took on this task and oh Benita, I'm still doing it. Every time I open an envelope or review the "final" album I see mistakes made during my sorting and classifying....but with music and your partner, if any, the stories and memories are amazing.

My mother moved overseas, and to prepare her for the big declutter, I had her watch some of your videos along with some on Dostadning. She pared down to one medium-large suitcase of clothing and just five banker boxes of personal effects, three of which are being stored with me in the States. I became the keeper of all the family photos, and I must've thrown out one large black rubbish bag full initially, and now I am doing the secondary cull. This is by far the most helpful video available, and I just appreciate you so much! Thank you, Benita! ♥️🙏🏼🌻

Wow, you nailed humans and cameras 😂 We’ve started this process but it’s gonna take a while. Great criteria for decluttering!

I find sorting through photos so overwhelming that I can't even think of starting. This made it seem a little more atteinable. You are incredibly patient, disciplined and organized.

Benita I did it! Yesterday I decluttered my fabric stash and design-school notes. Today I did 35 years of photos and negatives! It feels fantastic, and you know what, those photos were so easy to go through once I got started.

Oh Benita, what a heroic thing you have done for your Mother! I am the custodian of the photos of our family and boy, do they weigh upon my mind😳 They have been lurking on a high shelf for a long time and you have now given me the courage to get that box down and make a start. Feeling lighter already!

This is soooooo helpfull I have not sorted my photos for 20 years and your thoughts and tips have given me a vision on how to take it thank you so much❤

Thank you for making me feel better about tossing all my negatives!

Such a useful video, Benita! Brought back memories of decluttering my own photos a few years ago, 23 albums down to now 3! I digitised most of them and they are stored on a couple of external hard drives.

Great video! Thank you for doing this. I am in the process of doing this with mine and my parents photos. I am 27 and still live with my parents. I have kind of put our pictures on hold for a while since we are going through my grandparents belongings. My grandparents were born in the 1920's and lived during the great depression so they saved everything!!! There are pictures of not only my grandparents and my Dad and his siblings, but of Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, Great grandparents, great great grandparents and so on. I also discovered a while back a box of negatives. I originally wouldn't want to keep negatives but I happened to keep some of the older ones from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I actually took pictures of a few and uploaded them to a site that transfers them to positive images. There were a lot of negatives that I had never seen printed copies of. My grandfather loved to take pictures and would even take pictures of friends and neighbors. Thank you again so much for this video!

Where was this video when I needed it during the pandemic when I sorted through about 3,000 photos, that ranged from my parents' youth to my 48-year-old current situation?😄 It took forever to categorize and sort, but that was one of my big quarantine accomplishments.

I did this 15 years ago, roughly. My kids' dad died, it was so emotional. A couple of years ago I made different piles for all of us. Your idea gives me a lead on how to declutter and divide it more. Thanks, dear.

Love this video! I never know where to begin so Thank you for the tips! Im feeling inspired, maybe next weekend I’ll have a look at my boxes full of old photos, and make a start!

Thank you so much for this video! I've got boxes full of loose photos and it seems overwhelming to go through! You really gave me the inspiration and I plan to get this done!

Hi Benita, this was great! I'm sure your mum is very glad that you took on this job - I know myself how hard it is to let go of old photos.

Such a timely video Benita - I’m just doing this at my parents house and with my own photos.

I loved how you sorted and organized. I need to do that with my old photos. Now how do you declutter and organise digital photos, can we have a video on that as well please 🙏🙏🙏.

What a great video Benita! When we downsized my grandmother and mother i digitized and sorted by branch of family and subject and gave a backup copy to each of the extended family to share. They loved it. My error I think ( maybe not error but my stage of life) is I want to go back to digital files and cull because they are too big to be enjoyable for us. I created a book of a few subject areas for gifts and let go of all the paper copies to kids and family. My mom still has the albums that we can hold up for her to see and rest of us have a lighter closet and nothing to sort when she dies, sisters can share them. I think some kind of folder of best of best and let files go so we actually enjoy them now that they are preserved and shared already. ❤️🇨🇦

This video helped me today, Oct 2023. Thanks!

I'm still watching, but this video makes me really sentimental and I want to go print all my photos now ❤️

I started this very project before the pandemic. I stopped because I got overwhelmed. That may have been because I started digitally scanning all of my photos. I thought I should do this because we live in a hurricane prone area of the US, and it’s not possible to evacuate and worry about bringing any photos. AI thought having them digital would be good in the event the hard copies were destroyed. I wish I had thought of using stacking trays, that would have taken up less space in between working sessions. I abandoned the project, and no I didn’t take it back up during lockdown. I just ended a contract job so I have some free time again-maybe I will start again using your very helpful advice. I looked up articles on the subject and never found any thing as straightforward and helpful as this. Thank you once again! Loyal follower since your blogging days!

I went through two large bins of photos and kids school work a few months ago. I kept one of each year school photo and threw away the rest of the packets, discarded duplicates and blurry and also offered pictures to my children that might be special to them. I discovered that I am the most sentimental about photos and my family wanted very few. I am now down to two photo boxes of printed photos and a few pieces of artwork/letters from my childrens younger years. It wasn’t an easy project but I am glad to be done. Your method looks great…wish I saw this before I tackled the project but it will be very helpful to others!

At the start I felt overwhelmed, but as you finished I felt inspired. Maybe I can do it too.

I also did this recently with many, many boxes and albums of photos. What a chore! I was able to get rid of 90% of the photos (I had to laugh at your “backs of people you don’t know”). I did not get as far as categorizing, so will definitely utilize your idea of a box with dividers!

This is the most helpful video I have found on this subject! Thank you!

Thank you Benita! With thousands of photos to sort through you have given me a starting point. I had already started to only take pictures with people several years ago when I realized that noone will want the "pretty flower, landscape, or street scene" when I am gone. Some photos are used for reference in my paintings usually for the colour remembrance but once used I declutter.

Thank you for the video. Never tought of decluttering pictures can be so important. Need to start looking for duplicates & picture of people i dont know

This video was so artistically done and full of helpful information. It was also a real treat to have you share the pictures with us. Thank you!

5:30 I saw a postcard from Thailand and my heart skipped a beat. I recognized Thai alphabet 😊 รัก ค่ะ❤

This was so helpful, I have a big cupboard of photos I didn’t know what to do with 👍🏼

Did anyone else notice young Benita😍😍😍

This is so helpful!! I had my children go through all the photo albums I had created and let them choose what they wanted. I still have several bags of pictures in envelopes that I never got around to putting in albums and old photos I took when my mother passed away 11 years ago. I’m going to use your sorting method and pair everything down to one memory box to keep for myself. Thanks for sharing this🙂

Your video has made what seemed like a monumental task into something more manageable. I too have MANY photos to sort through and your approach gives me hope that I can do it … though I’ll be keeping a few of the “thumb” photos of a Europe trip with my mother, father and sister. Dad was notorious for accidentally edging his thumb into photos, so having a few of these photos are a funny reminder of a wonderful trip 👍🇦🇺

This is brilliant! Thank you for the inspiration. Also…the last shots with your patio in the background look so calm and lovely.

My mom and I did this recently when she moved from a house to an apartment--hard to start (mostly for her) but incredibly freeing in the end. We used the same decision-making process you suggest and it work wonderfully. The more we did, the more my mom felt ready to part with. On another topic, might you do an exacto knife tutorial sometime? How you selected your tools (exacto blade and holder, cutting mat, straight edge, triangle if you also have one of those). I've never learned that skill but I'd love to have it, likely applying it in ways similar to yours. Thanks for all the great content, Benita. You're an inspiration, and have been for a long time now.

Brilliant, what a well composed and useful video. Bravo, Benita! Your cinematography keeps getting better and better and the subject matter was so creatively and clearly explained. A classic. Thank you.

Useful and inspiring. Thank you!

I did this last year! I threw out two full bags of duplicates, bad shots, negatives, etc. I arranged them chronologically and some went into albums. I try to go through my phone once a year, print a few shots, and then delete everything. It feels so much lighter, and years from now my kids can enjoy the albums which are labeled so they will know what they are looking at! Great job!

Excellent organization and ideas for a project I find overwhelming. Thank you Benita.

I rewatched this video today after receiving a package from my sister. Both the video and the package made me chuckle. My sister sent me a package of snapshots, mostly of her home and garden from yearrrrs ago! One person's clean-out might be another person's toss-out.

Super helpful! Points me in the right direction on how to get started on sorting photos.

This was so helpful and inspiring. Thank you.

Awesome information, motivation and explanation of what in reality is involved. I do feel motivated now to start going through my collection

That was perfect! Sooo motivating!

This is absolutely the video I needed! What a great gift you gave your mom.... the time and decisions are endless! I appreciate all of your ideas, and the box lids are brilliant.I am so overwhelmed by pictures that I am not sure how or where to start. SO thank you so very much for these ideas.

Thank you Benita! It so much helpful, without any drama and tragedy made hard task.

Super helpful! I have a lot of work ahead of me, but this will help me get started. No to get my family’s blessing on the project. I am not too sentimental or attached, but trying to clean out or house.

Really like your idea of using box lids for sorting categories. It took me three years to sort my mom's photos, since I had so many questions about the people, year and locations. Those photos made many trips back and forth between my house in Virginia and my parents' house near Chicago! Years later I digitized and edited many family photos and old 35mm slides. The colors in old slides are outstanding. Many of these digitized photos made personalized gift photo albums for Older relatives.

This was so incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

I needed this step by step soo badly. Thanks so much Benita!

Very well made video Interesting to watch

Wow. Such good tips ❤

Excellent thank you x

Love this !! Great tips on sorting through photos !!

I appreciate this video so much, thank you for sharing the process. It was fascinating to watch!

Thank you. Very helpful.

Thank you for these great suggestions. I’m sorry to hear that Mom hasn’t been well, hope she feels better soon.

I love this idea Benita!! Thank you! I have many pictures from my grandmother’s family in Italy. Those have been sorted and stored. However, the photos of my kids from the past 20 years fill several large bins in my garage. I’ve been thinking of starting on photos. Thank you for this idea!

I will be tackling my family photo's (both sides of the family) this winter. Watching this video has helped me set guidelines -before I pull out the photos so I don't get sucked down the sentimental path quite so quickly. Thank you.

Love this, you are amazing 😍 Would love to see how you keep digital files organised, great tips in this video 👍

This is by far the best video I have seen on decluttering printed photos. Thank you so much!

Your Uncle or even your Dog blinked😂😂Love your humour!

Thank you! very much needed.

Thank you very much for this video, I was looking for this and your video helped me a lot. Greetings from Argentina. PS I love your videos!

Hi Benita, very helpful thank you. I have many boxes, lots of duplicates. I have culled some and used a few of the methods shown, but seeing you work through the process was super inspiring. 🌺

Geat video and sorting ideas. I feel like I have working on my photos for years and it is time to give it another go. Thank you Benita.

Benita, you did an amazing job. I need to do that with my photos. I’m been procrastinating because it’s not an easy job to do. Well done! From Canada 🇨🇦

This was so helpful and inspiring, thank you from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

Thank you for this video! I need to do this with all my photos plus those at my Mom’s house. Inspiration to get started😊

This is an incredibly helpful video. I’ve only done a little photo organizing, so now feel the courage to dive back in. Thanks Benita!

Awesome video, definitely original content with a very important topic for many people

Thank you so much for this video! It’s the best one I’ve found on the process of sorting photos and decluttering them. I appreciate hearing your thought process!

Great tips in this video...thank you! Love your channel.

A worthy and tricky decluttering topic. Thank you for your tips and tricks, and the Endel app.

Lovely, well done video. I'm almost done my first pass thru my photos. Ur way is great + answers some of my questions + gives me a plan for phase 2! Thanks. Shalom

Detailed, concise and specific. Brilliant video, and in my view, your best yet. Your guidance has helped me, and l believe it will help people everywhere because it demonstrates this is a project that can be completed in a timely way with your example.

Outstanding -- and very timely. Thanks so much.❤️

Thank you for this very good information! I have a box of photos that need sorting. Now I will get to them ASAP! Love all your videos. Looking forward to your next one! Thank you!

Gracias Benita, es una excelente forma de organizar las fotografías 🥰

So useful Benita, thank you so much!!

Wonderful tips and ideas on how to declutter a very sentimental subject! Your mom must have loved it when you brought the new box to her - perfect!

Benita, I am a die hard minimalist, but when it comes to photos, I will and make all the effort to keep even the ''irrelevant'' ones. It's a snapshot in time, it's as important for the future generation as it is for us looking at Victorian photos or generally vintage photos. I feel like printed photos and books are for me, above all stuff to be decluttered.

I’ve done all this too and your video brought back memories, good and bad but glad I took the time to do the culling.

I just did a photo declutter a week ago. My Mom got emotional and we argued because I wanted to get rid of some photos. Then she actually had fun looking at them with me and we separated some for my aunt that lives abroad. We will digitalise it for her. I used nearly the same criteria you used here. Good job!

Very necessary video! Thank you, Benita! Love from Brazil 🥰😘♥️🫶🏻

These were great tips! I have a few boxes of old photos that I haven't done anything with because I was overwhelmed with how to even start but your box lid sorting method makes it super easy. Thank you so much Benita 🥰

Perfect timing for me, thanks Benita 🤗

Omg, the last image light leaks! Memories!!!

Such an interesting video, loved the idea of sorting by theme. Amazing 😀❤️

I need to dot his soon Benita. Thanks for the inspiration. .

Benita, thank you for this video, I've been thinking about getting all my photographs in order and you've given me a great idea 💡 😀

Thank you so much for this extremely helpful and well produced video. Not only was it full of useful advice, but it was also very calming.

Love it!

What a great idea Benita ! Thanks for the inspiration ! :)

Always hit thumbs up before watching, cause I know it will be great 👍.....love from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤.

Such a useful and inspiring video... thanks!