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Family photographs - do you display them?

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Grannyknot Fri 27-Jun-14 22:57:19

I don't know whether I'm simply unsentimental or what - but I go to friend's and acquaintance's homes and often one whole wall will be covered in family photos, or there will be a dozen smaller frames displayed on a table or sideboard. I have about 3 in my whole house - completely random. One of my MIL before she got ill (Alzheimer's), one of my son and his wife on their wedding day, and one of my daughter when she was about 3 years old. That's it!

MargaretX Sun 29-Jun-14 21:57:48

I have one on my bedside table of my mother walking to the beach in Bridlingten. She looks happy and when I first put it into a frame after she died she was older in the photo than i was. Now I look at a photo of a woman much younger than I am.
Then one photo each of both daughters with their first babies. Lots of photos of the cats I've had and I put one on the wall yesterday, one of my lovely Jasper who died in February and till now I couldn't face looking at pictures of him.
No photos of me but one of MIL as the GCs liked her. I take a lot of photos and always have a recent one of the grandchildren in the kitchen.
I would feel lost without my photos.
I don't think it is common. I just don't have the grandpiano to display them on.

annodomini Sun 29-Jun-14 20:27:24

I have a gallery of ancestors - GPs and GGPs on the way up the stairs and a random selection of GC and DSs, such as graduation photographs, in the living room.

Kiora Sun 29-Jun-14 20:15:43

Sorry but I must be common. My home is a shrine to my children, grandchildren, a favorite aunt and uncle whom I love dearly. I have just added a photograph of my mother who died in 1977. It's been too painful to have it up before now. Maybe it because most of my family aren't local. They all make me smile. I love them. I'v taken to touching my mothers as I move from the landing in the morning....daft but who cares

sparkygran Sun 29-Jun-14 18:54:39

I have a wall in dining room with old photos of my great grandparents, grandparents, parents, our wedding photos and big occasions for our children - I have to admit that there are a few of me and DH in childhood and it is a talking point for all sorts of friends or anyone who is in the dining room. As for the DGC - just 3 - when I get a new one the old one goes into album and as for my own DC same applies.

I just love family photos and long for perhaps a GC to show an interest my own children are very unimpressed. 2 of the GC have shown a vague interest especially when they are doing a project in school that has been WW1 and WW2 and sometimes they are just interested in who are all those people.

Nonu Sun 29-Jun-14 18:43:35

I have a few dotted around , but as I get new school ones from DD , I change them .
I also have a huge sort of clip-board thingie which I attach photos and covers the spectrum of ageing[if you get my drift] just photos taken with our camera

Purpledaffodil Sun 29-Jun-14 18:32:01

Slightly off topic for a change, but DB in Canada remarked that every funeral they went to had a projected slide show afterwards showing deceased and family having fun. So he and SIL now take photos on purpose for that future event. I think it is a bit of a joke, but you never know with brothers do you? grin

rosesarered Sun 29-Jun-14 18:14:43

I have a few dotted around, mainly of the DGC which I change every now and then.None of parents, grandparents though.I have those in albumns.

rockgran Sun 29-Jun-14 09:42:19

I have several family photos about the place but more recent photos are kept on the computer and uploaded to several online storage sites. I love editing photos and putting them in "virtual" albums. I have scanned all the old family photos and slides into the computer too. Now that my son and family are overseas I keep the photos they send on my iPad for instant Granny boasting purposes.

Soutra Sun 29-Jun-14 09:30:58

I have quite a few framed photos of my parents and PILs when they were young , of DH's GPs when younger, our wedding photo, DDs 1 and 3 weddings, assorted " dead dogs," DH looking very young, a very middle class posed studio portrait of us about 26 years ago and one I especially love of the DDs aged 3,5 and 7. Also one of each of the little men which I change regularly as they do. I like my photos aand I don't know what if anything it says about me!

felice Sun 29-Jun-14 09:18:01

My ex's stepmother put me completely off family photographs, she has photographs everywhere, all head and shoulder shots of her family. She is well travelled but by looking at the photographs you would never believe it, all the photographs from any trip are of her new husband head and shoulders, not even a little of the background to show where it was taken, they cover every wall in the house, even the downstairs loo. I just found it all a bit creepy as in nearly all the ones of the children and GC they are wearing white, she keeps a collection of white T shirts for them to put on when they visit her and just constantly take photos of their faces.
Weird ????????????
I have 5, 2 of which i havn't actually got round to putting into frames.

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 28-Jun-14 22:01:37

I've got several framed photos of the grandsons, and one each of the two DD's. None of son though. Don't know why. confused Should remedy that!

And I have a picture of grandsons as a screensaver.

kittylester Sat 28-Jun-14 19:56:19

I have a small table I the lounge where I have one of every dgc ( changed soft of annually). Some of the children, a family one at our 40 wedding anniversary! One the mantle piece there is one of DH and i on our wedding day.

Any others are on the notice board and moved when something else comes.

ayse Sat 28-Jun-14 19:50:24

I decided to put some family photos in my bedroom together with a couple of pencil drawings of my parents. It works well for me so I reckon everyone is just different.

Marelli Sat 28-Jun-14 16:35:38

I have a few, but just little ones, and not on the wall. They just stand about here and there.

petra Sat 28-Jun-14 16:30:37

I feel guilty sometimes as one of my friends has them everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Hall, stairs, lounge, bedrooms, dining room, conservatory.

sunseeker Sat 28-Jun-14 12:40:59

When my DH died I went through all our photo albums and picked out photos we had taken on our travels and I have these scattered around the house.

When I was last in Australia my nephew put a bunch of photos of my OZ family on a digital photo frame.

I like to have photos of DH around because I find when visitors spot one they haven't seen before it starts a conversation about him - and I like that.

glammanana Sat 28-Jun-14 12:08:48

With now living in a smaller apartment we have stored many photographs away or passed on to DCs just have now photograph of all DGCs as a group taken this last year and two small black and white of mum and dad from yrs ago.Others are on a small wall in dressing room fondly known as rogues gallery.

janerowena Sat 28-Jun-14 12:06:06

I just have a few up. I have managed to get away with it though because we have a big sitting-room and this computer is set up at one end. When it isn't in use, I have set it up to become a slideshow for all the best family and friend photos, which keeps my daughter and a photo-loving friend happy. The friend used to say that my house looked bare without photos - that's because every square inch of hers is covered in them.

Ariadne Sat 28-Jun-14 11:55:21

We have one, annual, full family photo (now that takes some organising for all 14 - it's usually a matter of seizing the opportunity!) and it is framed and in the living room. That is all. Framed photos of DC (graduation, weddings etc) are hanging in the children's rooms, so they can look at them.

I don't like the cluttered feel of too many family photos - happy to have some on the notice board in the kitchen, though.

rosequartz Sat 28-Jun-14 10:21:46

Yes, I have one of those as well, Mishap.

Mishap Sat 28-Jun-14 09:39:53

Digital photo frame is what you need - you load photos onto a card, feed it into the frame and the photos will change on a rolling cycle.

Grannyknot Sat 28-Jun-14 06:32:37

Mamie that's me too, I do exactly that.

The framed wedding photo I have displayed of my son and his wife is the thank you card they sent out. Well, it was printed on good quality paper and you'd never know grin

Mamie Sat 28-Jun-14 06:08:20

We have just a few framed ones of the children's weddings and the grandchildren. The rest I just print out and put on the fridge to enjoy, then change them as new ones appear.

harrigran Sat 28-Jun-14 00:25:27

I have a picture of GC as toddler and baby on the music room wall and all their baby photos in frames on the piano. On hi-fi cabinet I have DD's graduation photo and school photos of GC. I also have a digital photo frame but I only have it operating infrequently.
In the lounge I have a large family portrait on the wall and framed photos of DH and I at the palace.

ninathenana Fri 27-Jun-14 23:53:53

I have six family photos in the lounge and one of those multi pic frames on the landing.
One of the frames in the lounge is a 21st birthday studio pic of MiL. Another is my paternal grandmother's wedding. I love old photos.