Graduation Photos

keep them,as they are something to be proud of.But maybe put them in a less prominent position now

Never. I’m so proud of my children’s achievements. They will remain on the wall for as long as I remain in my house. I’m 57 and my mother still has my graduation photo on her wall.

I graduated with a Masters degree from the Open University nine years ago (I was 69) and my graduation photos are still displayed in our hall. My husband is so proud of them he won't let me take them down.

Nope - DS’s and DD’s are up forever. So is mine from 9 years ago (I’m 70 in September)

Peasblossom

It’s supposed to be bad Feng shui to have photos of the past prominently on display. It drains your forward energy.

Why not have some happy photos of the people they are now?

Ermm, all photos are of the past

I think everything needs changing from time to time just to update your homes appearance - this includes photos. I think more recent ones in some nice frames would be good.

Oh heavens dead people in photos! horrendous.

I cannot understand wanting to take down adult children's graduation photos, however old they are now. Like their weddings it is a rite of passage. I'm so proud of my children's achievements that their graduation photos (and wedding photos) will remain in prominent display until the day I die, then they can decide what to do with them! And that includes the portraits done of them when they were 11 and 13.

Put all 3 AC graduation photos away probably 10 years after graduation ie 19 and 17 years ago.

Esspee

Regarding photos of deceased family members, there was a trend in Victorian times of having the family photographed with the deceased post mortem. The deceased would be propped up to look alive. I have no idea how it was accomplished considering rigor mortis sets in but do have a Google of “post mortem photography” to see what I mean.
The giveaway is that the deceased is in excellent focus because they don’t move.

If they missed their opportunity, they waited until rigor passed off again. Some of the really creepy ones have open eyes painted in over the eyelids

I have an digital photo frame. You download your favourite photos on to a memory stick or memory card and set it off to randomly change the photo every so often. I get to see a different face, funny photos, special landscapes and memories. The grandchildren love to try to identify everyone and if all the family photos are on there no one is offended that you haven’t put their photos up. When my mother was paralysed by a stroke and moved to a care home she lost her speech so we made a huge collage of all the family so she could point to them and it helped the staff get to know us all. I believe there are an app which can be used to brighten old photos, not sure what it is called.

No you are not odd @greenlady102, we are all different. . My friend likes to display mirrors of varying sizes.
I have a beach scene with boardwalk, and a mandala in my lounge, and the colosseum in the hallway. Trying desperately to keep the clutter down. I put all photos in albums when I downsized.

It’s your house, it’s up to you! A redecoration is a good excuse to take them down if you don’t want them up any more. Put them in the spare bedroom or something?

I have photos of my two (in their mid 20s now) at different ages all over, but I still like looking at them.

I have graduation photos up but they are on the landing upstairs.

am i odd? I have got paintings and pieces of embroidery (gifts) on my walls but no photos anywhere.

I think I'd digitise them so I could reduce the size, take similar shots (without the cap and gown!) of them now and put the 6 photos in a small multiframe. It's lovely for grandchildren to see their parents as youngsters.

I honestly don't see the interest in graduation photos. They are invariably rather dull. If you don't love them, just take them down!

I’ve never had any photos displayed - all in a box (except one) - went to a medium 15 years ago, who said ‘I have a gentleman here ( she described him) and you have his photo in your home - yes I use the one as a bookmark - description was spot on - he was my father, died 50 years ago

If you like them, keep them up. If you no longer wish to display them, take them down. I never managed to display those of my DD so it would be odd to start now.
To Mum, they are part of our life’s sequence so there they stay.

Yes!

We have an 80cm wide ledge in our box bay window at the front, and have about 15 family photos displayed there. One is DS's doctorate of psychology graduation, which was only a few years ago. The others have been put away, but we have a wedding photo for each child, and ones of each of the grandchildren. When we have visitors, they have always asked us to explain who is who, so a useful talking point.

My parents never had photographs of my sister and I on display. Not school pictures, not wedding pictures, not graduation pictures. AS I don't have children the question of having photographs of them or grandchildren hasn't arisen. (We did have a wedding photo in a frame for several years after we were married but that is 44 years ago now...I think the photo eventually faded or the frame broke...)

If these pictures bring you joy, keep them on display. If they don't, why not buy a nice album and put the pics in the album in a drawer. Or scan them to your computer? That way you have kept them, they are accessible and you can look at them and remember, but they are not cluttering up your walls or the top of your piano.

My photos are all in albums, wedding, graduations, family hols, old school photos.
In fact, when I cleared out my late parents bungalow, I found my graduation photo from 1977, I don’t think it ever saw the light of day.

I think there's no need to display these. Just take them down!

I’ve done a photo wall in the spare bedroom it’s covered with photos of my seven grandkids, I would put them somewhere like that, so they are still up but just somewhere else.

We still have a graduation photo of our daughter (now 36) on the wall in the kitchen. We love the photo and are still proud of her degree and achievements. We will always keep it there, I expect. We also still have one very cute toddler photo of her in a frame on a book case, but upstairs. Why not?