{Photo CD Storage}

ONE child + ONE Mom who loves to take pictures and scrapbook = LOTS OF PHOTO CD'S!!!

I do have some sense of organization to them, because otherwise I couldn't function, but they were getting a little out of hand, and harder to find what I needed.  I realized this a few days ago when I went to retrieve a baby pic for a project.

I wish you could really tell in this pic how high the stacks are! Is this wrong?  (smile.)

So I decided that even though each CD case is well-labeled, when you have that many to go through to find something specific, "it ain't fun".

I knew they needed to at least be sorted by year.

And then a lightbulb went off...4x6 acrylic photo frames as file tabs. Yay!!!!!

They're sturdy and the stand fits right under a few CD's for support.  I had a few lying around, but needed a few more, so I picked them up at $1 each, added a year tag with painter's tape (so they're still photo-ready if need be in the future), and they sit perfectly as plastic file tabs to sort my years!

My photo CD's are in a plastic tub, which still works well...each CD was labeled with the event/date/etc....but they still needed one more step for organization. This worked out really well, and only took 15min. to get pulled together.

Voila! I find that I always know what year I need, so this makes it much easier to find what I'm looking for. 

Hmmm....I think we took waaaaaaaay too many pictures in 2009! 

Hope this gives you a little inspiration to organize something at your house, too!

Deanna

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