What cheeses me off

[mrsterryn]

It's a lot of work isn't it.

But do you need to shred? I'd just be ripping up.

There is a lot of photos and documents.

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Or… contact one of those ‘on site’ shredding companies. They come to you with a truck with inbuilt shredder. I think one wheelie bin full cost us about $100 or something, maybe less? And $40 for each additional wheelie bin.

It saved hours and hours when I had to do it, and saved the fingers too!

Yes I was looking at getting one of the 120 bins and just adding them all in there for the convenience

 

[JohnK]

My current "work"
Culling digital photos
Shredding old photos
Shredding old financial papers of my parents and various grandparents that my mother didn't shred
(Note dad passed in 2014, mum in 2016, the house was sold in 2015)

Shred photos? I would never shred any old photos. We've got quite a few photo albums in the chest.

 

[RooFlyer]

Shredding old photos

Nooooooooo. You mean the originals of the ones you’ve scanned or just surplus ones like mum and dad‘s photographs of London Bridge from 30 years ago?

 

[Pushka]

I have a few select photos I've scanned. Of Grandparents early days up to the present. I did not want the rest. Originals and copies of those I didn't want are gone. I had no interest in keeping any of the rest of them and certainly my kids and my siblings kids didn't either.

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Shred photos? I would never shred any old photos. We've got quite a few photo albums in the chest.

And no younger ones who are in their thirties in my family want such things to be left by us for them to chuck out. They are all minimalist lifestyle people.

 

[Flashback]

I have a few select photos I've scanned. Of Grandparents early days up to the present. I did not want the rest. Originals and copies of those I didn't want are gone. I had no interest in keeping any of the rest of them and certainly my kids and my siblings kids didn't either.

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And no younger ones who are in their thirties in my family want such things to be left by us for them to chuck out. They are all minimalist lifestyle people.

I've already been going through stuff at my folks place and making such decisions for them. I told them it saves me having to do it in 20-30 years time

 

[RooFlyer]

Ugh. Its your grandkids and their grandkids who will value the hardcopy photos, especially in this digital age where just about everything will be wiped when we die. The family pics that have survived from the 1800s are some of the most valuable things I have.

I don't suppose I'll change anyone's mind here but why not chuck a hundred or so hardcopy pics of the family and events in the bottom of a box for later generations. Might take up the volume of a couple of books. Make sure the names are written on the back!!

I've scanned all my family's old photos (including the above, and forward to the 1980s) and made several DVDs of them (incl a ceramic, long life version) with DO NOT DESTROY on them and a similar label on the originals, multiple volumes. DVDs given to multiple family members. But also kept and labelled the hardcopies in albums, which my grand-something rellies always enjoy leaving through when they visit.

Now, if all that gets turfed after I cark it, there's nothing I can do, but I've done my best. Don't chuck out the hardcopy family memory because it has no interest for you.

 

[mrsterryn]

Nooooooooo. You mean the originals of the ones you’ve scanned or just surplus ones like mum and dad‘s photographs of London Bridge from 30 years ago?

Oh no I have kept many but the 24 photos of spilt between the kookaburra on the hills hoist in mum and dads backyard, along with a few of mum posing (?) they get shredded lol
The old family photos especially pre 1980 (down to the beginning of the century possibly earlier still finding out ) I am scanning and then they are going into a grab bag at the front door

 

[RooFlyer]

WCMO. After I was no longer on staff at University of Tas I kept getting all their cough e-mails, which weren't worth opening when I was there, so especially not now.

So I e-mailed them asking to be taken off the mailing list(s).

3 weeks later, get a reply simply reading: 'Forwarded to <name I don't know>' Click on this link to follow up.

So I clicked on it and got a very complex message that I eventually figured out says 'You can't go there because you are no longer on staff'

The University of Tasmania is a tertiary education establishment.

 

[Pushka]

Ugh. Its your grandkids and their grandkids who will value the hardcopy photos, especially in this digital age where just about everything will be wiped when we die. The family pics that have survived from the 1800s are some of the most valuable things I have.

I don't suppose I'll change anyone's mind here but why not chuck a hundred or so hardcopy pics of the family and events in the bottom of a box for later generations. Might take up the volume of a couple of books. Make sure the names are written on the back!!

I've scanned all my family's old photos (including the above, and forward to the 1980s) and made several DVDs of them (incl a ceramic, long life version) with DO NOT DESTROY on them and a similar label on the originals, multiple volumes. DVDs given to multiple family members. But also kept and labelled the hardcopies in albums, which my grand-something rellies always enjoy leaving through when they visit.

Now, if all that gets turfed after I cark it, there's nothing I can do, but I've done my best. Don't chuck out the hardcopy family memory because it has no interest for you.

It has no interest for the generation below mine! I already have boxes of stuff from MrP'career and that is borderline as to whether that will get dumped too. Not by us though. The grandkids likely won't get a say in as it's the parents who won't keep it.

 

[JohnK]

And no younger ones who are in their thirties in my family want such things to be left by us for them to chuck out. They are all minimalist lifestyle people.

LOL. I'm not leaving the photos for them. The photos are for me. Digital is nowhere near as nice as print. You can't frame digital photos on walls or kitchen benches. You can't frame digital fridge magnets of your daughters school photo in Sydney, Brisbane and Chiang Mai.

Once I'm gone then daughter can work out what she keeps and what she throws out. I won't be around to worry.

 

[drron]

Well Mrsdrron has framed digital prints and fridge magnets. No problem getting it done.

 

[JohnK]

Well Mrsdrron has framed digital prints and fridge magnets. No problem getting it done.

I didn't mean you cannot print from digital photos. I meant you can't put your digital photos on the fridge.

Hard copy photos any day for me.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

WCMO is American travel writers/bloggers/reviewers who express amazement - ‘wasn’t expecting this’ / ‘the flight was so short you didn’t need this’ - when they get a meal on a one hour flight anywhere outside the US.

It’s not so much their ignorance, but the risk airlines might think everyone thinks the same way, and cut those meals.