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gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 139
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 10:28 am: |     |
The husband and I are in our early-30's so several times a year, we get pictures in cards of the babies of our friends and families. What do people do with these? I must have a hundred of them! |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 11:01 am: | |
Keep a seperate photo album. One page for each family or something. Or just close your eyes and dump them all in the garbage - have your dog help you so that there can be truth to "the dog did it". |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 480
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 11:02 am: | |
Sometimes mine end up in a drawer somewhere, other times I toss them!
(Organizing photos is one of those things ALWAYS on my to-do list, but rarely gets done!) |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1494
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 11:33 am: | |
My brother takes a million pictures of the kids, keeps the good ones or sends them to the grandparents & sends us the crap. If the tip of my shoe shows up in a corner of a picture while I'm visiting, he sends it to me. My theory is that the parents don't know what to do with the pictures, either, so they get dumped on aunts & uncles. Anyway, I dump all of these almost as soon as I get them.
For family, like my brother, I suggest that he send pictures (other than professional portraits) via e-mail, so that I can print the cutest ones. For friends, if it is a close friend, whose kids I see regularly, I will put a picture on the fridge until I get a new one the next year. Then I replace it.
Random aquaintances, my secretary, etc.? Buh-bye after reading the card. |
Steven Brent
Citizen
Username: Sbrent
Post Number: 192
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 12:50 pm: | |
If you have a scanner and Photoshop or similar you can make bizarre mutant baby art......
this space for rent |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 770
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 1:08 pm: | |
Oh,Greenetree: "Random aquaintances, my secretary, etc.? Buh-bye after reading the card."
I can't believe you'd lump your secretary in with "random aquaintances". It's a sad day for administrative help around the globe ...
For what it's worth I pretty much look at the picture and if I'm, not in it then it goes in the trash, regardless of whose kid it is. |
Wendyn
Citizen
Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 30
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 1:48 pm: | |
I am so offended that the 50 picture cards of my beautiful daughter and adorable pugs would be so callously thrown away after all of the effort it took to get a decent picture! I expect to see it framed in every house I go to.
Ok, so the real reason I do it is because I can't face writing 50 cards. And yes, I throw out those of my friends and relatives as soon as the holiday is over. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1496
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 1:57 pm: | |
Alg-
I don't lump my admin in with random aquaintances, only the picture of her kid & the RA kids. Last time she had pictures of her baby, she asked me if I wanted one istead of just putting it in my in-box with a cutesy note. I said "No, thank you. I don't really have anywhere to put it".
Was that bitchy? 
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algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 771
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 2:35 pm: | |
Yeah, probably bitchy. I would have probably said the same thing.
What's with people who carry pictures of their friends kids in their wallet? My sister-in-law does that.
When someone sends you a card how long do you keep it? If I toss it out right away my husband accuses me of being rude. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1498
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 2:57 pm: | |
It's only rude if the giver is standing right there.
If it's an X-mas card, they all go out together when X-mas gets put away. If it's some other reason, it goes in the junk mail pile for the weekly sort & toss (my Saturday AM ritual). |
thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 211
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 4:32 pm: | |
Just found this on the wire....
Local law to address baby photos
Residents say "buh-bye" to children they never knew
MAPLEWOOD, NJ (AP) – Anxiety in a sleepy New Jersey community was eased today when its town council passed an ordinance that attempts to clarify what many in the community have been quietly pondering for years -- what to do with all those baby photos received from friends and family?
"I think this is the kind of forward-thinking, progressive action that we need in these uncertain times," said Matthew Horton, a cousin of a council member and an entrepreneur with intentions of opening a new nail salon in Maplewood this summer. "I mean, peace resolutions may be the 'in' thing right now, but this is something that will touch literally every member of our town."
The ordinance requires that Maplewood residents maintain baby photos for at least 90 days. It also creates a new recycling program through which discarded photos will be picked up in yellow, curb-side toters on a monthly basis.
"Now I don't have to buy expensive albums for all those darn photos," said Sara Jordan, a newlywed who does not yet have children but receives at least eight to ten every month.
Robert Donohue, an attorney with six married sisters, has been recycling for years but expressed concern over the ordinance's wording. "The intention is good, but the text is unclear as to whether the 90 day rule is from the date of receipt or date of the postmark. This kind of ambiguity is not good in a community in which its residents can’t even get contractors or plumbers to return their phone calls."
Others are skeptical, such as Isabelle Weiss. "Clarity is good, don't get me wrong, but my brothers and sisters live nearby in South Orange and visit regularly," she said. "What happens when they help themselves to a bottle of San Pellegrino and don't see their kids on my refrigerator? And you think the fireworks over Baghdad are going to be bad!”
Those close to council members are more optimistic. "Look, they know it's not perfect, said Horton. “Heck, they haven't even figured out how to enforce snow shoveling ordinances. But this is a good start. It's all about baby steps, as they say."
Sources say the next issue on the town council's agenda will address how to dispose of birthday and anniversary cards.
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