7. Get yourself published
Scrapbooks are great! I have a few (or 20) myself. But they are bulky and can be hard to store. Not to mention printing the pictures, getting out the stickers and the coordinating paper and double sided tape (one or three was always missing when I needed it). These days I use an online publishing company like blurb.com or lulu.com and put together a book. Smaller than a scrapbook; less counter space used in the kitchen.
8. Image a Month Club
Or a fancy way of saying “Calendar”. We gave these out at Christmas (the idea-creativity juices stopped flowing sometime around November) and they got rave reviews. An uncle of mine said it was a much better gift than something we could have bought because they were photos of somewhere we’d actually been. Pretty good coming from someone with a way better camera than us (the nerve). Lots of places print them. My favorite so far has been Lulu.com.
Above all, get the images in front of you so you see them every day. Sometimes I find a memory card I’d forgotten about at the bottom of a camera bag. I dump it and it’s like Christmas – the dog when it was a puppy, my daughter when she played soccer, images of an aunt that recently passed away. Spend a few minutes of your day and get those pictures back into your life. You spent a lot of money on them.
John
Nice idea