d2b2 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland, USA

Just in case, I have everything backed up to an asbestos hard drive.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones", So let it be with my pictures.

ltj123 Loc: NW Wisconsin

I have already destroyed thousands. First converted all my slides to digital saving about 10%, this 5 years ago. Next this past winter went through many thousands of prints in 3 large boxes, once more saving maybe 5% by scanning to digital or just saving.
So today I still have 20 picture albums, 400+ CD and DVDs. These I'm sure my kids will briefly review some time...
But never fear I'm still shooting and learning...

jrw_mdus Loc: Elk River Basin, Cecil County MD, USA

I am 87 with maby 6 years to go. My plan is to put together a thumbdrive of my best 200 birds 400 sunsets 300 ships on the c and d canal, 200 local chesapeake city pics and try and sell it, but also give it away to friends who have interest in my pictures. The thought of all my pictures going away when I die saddens me

1963mca

I expect 98% of my photos will be gone. The ones that will be saved have been or will be added to our family history album which contains family member photos going back to the Civil War era.

OneShotOne18

Haahahha sure ya can take'm with you. You just won't know it.

je13quincy

“The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning” is a book available through Amazon, but in short either you clean up after yourself or your kids or relatives will have to do it for you after you pass!!! So my wife and I (in our seventies) have started the process as time permits. A few months ago I went through all my old record albums and kept what I wanted and gave away 250 albums, the same with all our boxes and boxes for photographs. We took empty shoe boxes and over one or two nights sat down and labeled each box by family and friends names and put the photos into each box according to who was in the picture then gave them their box of pictures to keep. This way we know that everyone got their pictures and we keep what we wanted, but at least they weren’t tossed in the garbage down the road. As with all my digital photos who knows? Probably put them on an external drive and if the kids want some it’s their choice.

Tomcat5133 Loc: Gladwyne PA

Like everyone here I have thought about this but dont have a plan. I have a lot of slides. Bought a scanner number years ago
and it was tedious to try and record them. We have excellent collection of the previous generation. In safe in tight plastic storage crates.
I don't think my kids and grandkids are interested. My one grandaughter going to be eleven has interest and sometimes my wife
and daughter go through them with her at my daughters. I have a digital collection of my stills. Some are good the rest are just photos.
They are in large drives. Quite honestly the best stuff for family is posted by my family on facebook. And we get photos all the time
from my daughter and my son of the 5 grandkids. I think the digital age is a mess. Archival is an open question. A lot of our docs
are now in digital. I wish I had a plan but I am busy. My wife every so often goes through a box to show my daughters kids.
And her cousin likes to show her kids family photos. If I like a photo on facebook or sent to me I swipe it or screen grab it and put
it into my Mac photos file. Their are to many images today.

thraso

Family pictures are filed separately, they can pick what they want. Some are printed. The rest, I am sure will the victims of the "delete" key. And so is life, everything has its end point.

AutoGal

I am 75 and I make albums upon albums....of basically everything I deem important or simply lovely like an album of my flowers.
Edee

cdayton

Completely agree although I would prefer British Racing Green. As for photos, I have no expectation that digital files will survive so for 10 years or so I have been making photo books for driving tours, cruises, etc.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

My photos have value to me, that's it. I refuse to speculate on how they will be valued after I'm dead. They will be in the form that I have them now, to be accessed or not.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Yes, I would also go for British Racing green, but digital archives are easier to maintain than physical ones. At the end of the day, somebody has to believe that the curation effort is worthwhile.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

I have four sons. Two of the daughters-in-law have already asked to have all my photo albums.
The grandkids love to look at the pictures taken when their Dads were youngsters.
Never counted them, but I must have thousands of photos...
Right now, I'm in the process of scanning all my photos and negatives. The oldest photo I have dates to about 1890, when my grandfather was a young adult.
I'm putting a white strip on the bottom of each photo, and type relative information in that. Names, location, (approximate) date, occasion, and anything else I think could be of interest.
All the scans will be put on external hard drives, one for each of the boys. If the grandkids are interested, I'll buy each of them an external hard drive as well. I'll leave it up to them to "maintain" them: make a copy, store the drive properly, etc.
Along the same lines, I am writing a book "about my life." Simply started a document on the the computer, and every time I think of something, if I'm near the computer, I make a quick note of it, as much as possible I keep it in chronological order. Or if I think of something while away, I've got a small notebook in my handbag, and jot it down in that notebook. Once a month or so, I'll take time to work out these "thoughts" into a fuller story. That book about my life will also be illustrated with photos where possible.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

My cousin and I just spent many hours going through some of her collected family photos trying to figure out who they were. Luckily her mother had written a list for one of the albums. A few of the loose prints had names on them. Most did not. But they are VALUABLE to us. Whether they will be of value to anyone in the next generation or not is questionable. I'm trying to get them all digitized. I really love the old-timey prints, whether I know who the person is or not.

What I find interesting is that I never take pictures of people - well, rarely. But when I look at pictures from a couple of generations ago, it's the people I want to see!