Photo packets?

[smudge]

Does anyone know where I could buy photograph packets/envelopes please?

Most of our APS photo's came back in the hard box type packs. These take up so much space & I would like to replace them with the type that ordinary photo's come back in. I have thought about buying loads of ordinary envelopes, but they probably wouldn't be strong enough. Any other ideas please.

[SC00BY]

errrr photo albums perhaps!! 2 for 1 at boots at the moment

[SC00BY]

God that looks like i'm being rude. Genuine apologies.

[smudge]

Hi SCOOBY - thank you for the suggestion. I have lots of photo albums, but really wanted to keep my 'hundreds' of photo's in packs, with the subject & year on, etc.

I shall pop along to Staples today, to see what they have on offer. Thanks again.

[Robinia]

Smudge didn't you watch Blue Peter?  You should be whipping up your own 'files' out of cornflake packets, old greeting cards & double sided sticky tape lol!!!  You'd be amazed at what I can do with a squeezy bottle & a pipe cleaner!

[Dom Tuk]

Sorry to deviate smudge but just last night we were discussing at work about photographs. A colleague made a point about what to do with loads of family/holiday/growing up photos and argued that the best thing to do is select the best few and discard the rest. The reason being that they are the best ones, easy to store at the end of the day the rest are hardly ever looked at and lie in a box somewhere. I will ofcourse find it very difficult to throw away the photos of my children growing up or holiday snaps but i very rarely view them and if they were the best ones i would be more inclined to see them more often. Besides the photographs of my own childhood are lying somewhere in my parental home and my parents in their old age what with illness and hospitals are not inclined to reminsce about those times. So there is some merit in my friends suggestion...not that i am suggesting that you should do it...as i will never bring myself to do it too.

[SC00BY]

Brain wave, One of the guys at work scanned his photo's onto his PC then saved them to disk. Loads of photo's taking up very little space.

[smudge]

Hi all - thank you for all your suggestions.

Robinia - I used to love watching Blue Peter with the girls! They like my husband, are very artistic, so we sit together doing Caligraphy, drawing & making things with the Grandchildren.

Dom Tuk - I spent a week sifting thro' & throwing away all the holiday sceneries, blurred pic's, etc. I couldn't throw out any loved ones/friend ones, so I've been putting them into packs to pass on.

SCOOBY - Good idea & I have thought about putting them to disc, but it would take forever & ever!

Thanks again.

[smudge]

Good old Boots the Chemist. I went there a few days ago & the assistant gave me just what I've been looking for - 100 photo envelopes! I'm sifting through & have been replacing all the APS box packs into these - it's amazing the amount of space I've created!