Memorganization.

In my group of friends I am the historian. I always have a camera and always have. That means i have about 923838202 photos because that number almost looks like my age. Since becoming job-free I have taken it upon myself to organize these memories into some kind of sense. Because I have spent much of the new millennium with a digital camera, Flickr has helped me to square these memories away into little "sets." I am attempting to do that with my paper (analog!) photos. Here are some ways to go about this and to in other ways make use of your mems:

• Boxes: The photo above shows a birthday present my mom sent me. She organized by year (don't laugh at how many there are) photos from my entire life. The first year she put into a book with cute paper and other information. This is my favorite means of organization because you can get cute boxes (sometimes expensive) that stack easily OR you can use old shoe boxes that you "gift wrap" like you would have a text book in 7th grade. Nah mean?
• Scan: This is a great way to make your memories Y2k compatible and to share them with friends. You can create Facebook albums and haunt friends of yore. With these scans you can also...
• Publish: This is my favorite thing ever. A few months ago some friends and I got together and using Blurb, we created an amazing one-of-a-kind book that spanned years. These make AMAZING gifts and are actually really affordable considering the amazing final product.
• Frame: I moved a few months ago and when I did I made it a point to refresh all of my photo frames. It was starting to look like I was in denial about the fact that it's not actually acceptable to assume I am still 21, so my memorial decor had to represent that. You can cheaply print photos from all of the hosting sites where you likely have your digital pictures and if you'd like, you can go opposite day and just put REALLY old pictures in your frames. It might make you feel young again. Since you don't have a job you can change them out daily. Go for it, dude.

Bottom line, memorganization (as I am calling it) is a good opportunity to acquaint yourself with new technologies, clean up, terrorize friends and decorate your house. Pretty sweet, right?