Unwanted photos and what to do with them?
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| 1 | I have lots of discarded photos - blurry people, crowd scenes and landscapes from years of overseas travel that we can't remember etc. I easily dispose of the scenes but have trouble disposing of the people ones. I try ripping them up and putting in rubbish bags but I feel odd about it incase some one discovers them. Does anyone else feel the same. I have so many aquired in my 71 years. Thank you. forucci - 2021-02-12 17:17:00 |
| 2 | Just put them in the rubbish bin,when they are dumped at the council tip and buried the water will soon ruin any content, don't put them in a recycle bin androth2 - 2021-02-12 18:10:00 |
| 3 | You could wet them before disposal if you are worried. And if you don't recognise them, no-one else will! starseeker - 2021-02-12 19:02:00 |
| 4 | Thank you for those ideas. I knew not to put them in recycling but never thought to wet them. Thanks again. forucci - 2021-02-12 20:55:00 |
| 5 | You dont need to wet them ,when they are in the ground covered in clay the water present will ruin them androth2 - 2021-02-12 23:45:00 |
| 6 | I was helping a woman pack up her house before the move to a rest home, she spent the afternoon sitting outside reading her letters and sorting photos and burning them in a roasting dish as she decided what to do with each item, she liked rereading the letters and cards, and burnt the things she didnt want anyone else to see or read articferrit - 2021-02-13 13:16:00 |
| 7 | This message was deleted. kittycatkin - 2021-02-13 14:45:00 |
| 8 | Very few plastic bags are watertight ,especially when a bulldozer has compacted the rubbish and gone over it several times androth2 - 2021-02-13 14:51:00 |
| 9 | Little Shredders are quite cheap then the shredded paper can go in the recycling. Also good for any bits of paper which may have personal information on eg bills, old letters, receipts etc. jayemtoo - 2021-02-13 16:52:00 |
| 10 | Yes jayemtoo I had one of these and burnt it out I think photos are harder on them than paper (especially the amount I have). I should have dealt with them as they occurred. Better late than never I suppose. Thanks. forucci - 2021-02-14 11:39:00 |
| 11 | what about giving them to a school for their art department to use in collages etc urbanrefugee54 - 2021-02-26 13:39:00 |
| 12 | Yeah, I'd struggle to throw away the ones with people in too. There's a saying, and I can't quite remember, goes something like You die twice... once when you take your last breath and again when somebody says your name for the very last time. I guess you are truly dead when the last photo of you is discarded. melcraig - 2021-02-26 16:43:00 |
| 13 | I went through my parents photos after they had died. If I didn't know who the people were I threw them out. I have enough of my own. I also named any that I knew so my children could decide whether or not to keep them once I was no longer around. mak47 - 2021-03-10 20:42:00 |
| 14 | Buy a shredder and shred them. We had a massive cull of ours. Ridiculous number of double ups, people you don't remember etc. Taken back in the day when development was so expensive you kept everything because they had cost you so much. lol Such a good job to get done. Got rid of hundreds. lynja - 2021-03-11 06:43:00 |
| 15 | I have hundreds of negatives and can't see what they are anybody got any good ideas for viewing them please? mercury14 - 2021-03-18 06:08:00 |
| 16 | Try a light box voyager4 - 2021-03-19 14:34:00 |
| 17 | voyager4 wrote: And then photograph them and invert the colours using Paint (open the photo, Select All, Right-click on the photo and choose Invert Color) gyrogearloose - 2021-03-19 16:10:00 |
| 18 | Where does one get/buy a light box? thanks mercury14 - 2021-03-19 19:06:00 |
| 19 | I have a scanner which does photo negatives and slides should you wish to get them scanned. j.main@hotmail.co.nz jenny729 - 2021-04-07 14:28:00 |
| 20 | Oh I would love to get my hands on those really old black & white photos of people to pop into my handmade journals...please don't throw them out..list them! marigold_00 - 2021-04-08 01:02:00 |
| 21 | forucci wrote:
I'm also doing this - I just tear them up and put into normal rubbish bag with the rest of the rubbish. I have so many albums I can't keep them all so am being ruthless about it, as my children won't want them. The really difficult ones to throw away are all the ones of my sister (in UK)'s babies from the 1990s that she sent me. All really nice photos of them but I've just kept a sample. Edited by athena2 at 9:13 pm, Thu 8 Apr athena2 - 2021-04-08 21:12:00 |
| 22 | jenny729 wrote:
Just make sure that the negatives you have will fit in the scanner. I had heaps of negatives, but only the small ones would fit. Edited by starseeker at 4:25 pm, Fri 9 Apr starseeker - 2021-04-09 16:24:00 |
| 23 | mercury14 wrote:
Use a flatscreen monitor or tablet, set it to a white screen, put the slide or negative on it& take a photo using a cellphone & invert the colours. I have a scanner/printer that has a built in 'white box' in the lid for scanning slides, but have never used it. marte - 2021-04-15 19:21:00 |
| 24 | This message was deleted. kittycatkin - 2021-04-17 19:41:00 |
