One item that may help you organize both pictures and papers is a portable filing cabinet. You can purchase these at any office supply store and get folders as well as file separators to help you organize everything. This way, at least you know where everything is and you can get to it when you need it.
Case in point - a few years ago, my ex-husband was taking my kids on a cruise. This is before you needed a passport to go in and out of the country, but they did need birth certificates. I looked in the mess of papers that contained all my “important documents” that were jumbled together and easily found my daughter’s birth certificate, but not my son’s. I couldn’t find it at all. To make matters even more fun, the day that he told me that they needed the birth certificates was Christmas Eve. They were leaving Christmas night for the cruise. And the courthouse was closing early on Christmas Eve.
Fortunately, he didn’t wait an hour to tell me about the needed birth certificate and we rushed to the courthouse and were able to get a birth certificate for my son so that he could go on this cruise. It all worked out, but it had the potential for disaster... especially since I later found my son’s birth certificate in a drawer in the kitchen. The day after Christmas, I went to the office supply store to get organizers for important papers. The other day my daughter needed her social security card for a new job and I was able to go right into the file and pull it out for her. Had I not had this, she might have not been able to get the job.
Many of my pictures are in photo albums, but I still have many loose pictures that I mean to put in photo albums. But although I keep putting this project off, I still have the photos organized by the approximate years, vacation settings or holiday settings in a file box. I have another file box for pictures that were handed down to me that belonged to my grandparents. They are easy to get to because they are all stored in one place and organized.
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