Photographs: your most valuable possession

In Queensland, Australia we have just had huge floods that caused a lot of families to lose everything. Many of them had notice to evacuate but some did not. One thing that you hear so often when people are fleeing floods and fires is that they grab their most valuable possessions and leave quickly. Photographs are always, always packed in the car to be rescued. After all, material possessions can be replaced but those reminders of those precious memories cannot.

I wanted to do a blog post to help people protect their most precious items; their photos.

At the moment there are plenty of ‘back to school’ specials at stationary stores like Officeworks. All you need to back those photos up is a good external hard drive and a scanner. You can get a 1TB (which is HUGE) hard drive for around $100 and scanners are similar prices.

You need to back up all of your digital photos. For the older physical photos you can scan them in and then back them up. If you live in bush fire or flood prone areas can I also suggest that you purchase two external hard drives and leave one backup at another safe location.

This is the perfect time to start this project as the kids are home on school holidays and are often looking for things to do. I am sure they will also love looking through all of those old photos as they scan them in.

Furthermore, you can start a special Mothers Day project. With all of those old photos scanned in, why not create a photo book for your Mum for Mothers Day in May. If you start the project now you will have plenty of time to finish it.

There are plenty of places where you can print your photo books like snapfish. Or if you would like a professional album like one of these, please contact me at louise@reflectionsbylouise.com.au and we can discuss your options.

(Images from Seldex)

But please, at the very least, make sure that you place all of your photos in one area so that they can be easily relocated in case of emergency. Televisions, couches and beds can all be replaced, but photographs can’t.