Scrapping the Past

[tjh186]

I'm going through old pictures of mine from about 6 years ago, that unforunately never got scrapped, or at best, thrown together on a page with no journaling or captions. I look at them now and have no idea who some of these people are. I may remember "that brunette as the funny girl on our vacation", but not her name.

Do you bother scrapping these pictures? What techniques do you do to get past the "I don't know who he is!", especially if you scrap so that years from now you can remember things like this? :)

I've got a few that I can ask for some friends' help, but there's more that I know will always be "unlabeled".

Thanks!

[SKetchy]

I don't know if I'd bother scrapping the ones I couldn't remember anything about. I might do the ones of the funny girl on our vacation by not really scrapping so much about her but scrapping about the vacation itself and mention her in passing.

But I don't try to scrapbook all my photos anyway -- I'd go crazy if I tried, I'd stress myself completely out. I just choose the best ones. I find that if I do that I manage to convey the feel, which then represents the event or occasion, or memory better than if I try to cover everything.

[Just Jan]

I don't scrap all my photos either. I make a lot of slideshows. The photos that wouldn't be suitable for scrapping usually work really well in a slideshow.

[2plump]

If they are good photos and you hate to abandon them, I would put them as small unjournaled photos on a page with a larger journaled pix. I have several that have the same problem of unknown people and places, but the photos are so good of my family that I don't want to lose them. Besides, it'll always bring a smile to your face to remember that funny girl. Maybe make a page of it -- sorta like the Unknown Comic. (Does anyone remember him? The one with the paper bag over his head?)
Just my opinion, Terrie is 2plump