Digitalize all old, inherited family photos

Ok, after sitting around gathering a bunch of photos for hours a few months ago, they’ve done nothing but sit on my living room floor and creating clutter. I tried to scan them in one day, only to find that my scanner wasn’t working properly and didn’t want to talk to my laptop. Anyway, my boyfriend says he’s finally fixed the scanner so I can get started on this goal. I’m kind of excited about this.

OMG, this is hard work. Here I am, stumbling through the closet, rifling through boxes of photos that contain everything from my mom’s family that I don’t even know, to my parents partying with their friends on NYE in the early 80’s, to embarrassing middle school dance team photos, to my 21st birthday. Egads! How am I ever going to get through these? I’m trying to pick out just a few select good ones at first, which I will then segregate into a different marked box (so I know which ones I’ve already digitized), but there are just too damn many. Not to mention, there is a very specific box of photos from a cross country road trip I took in 2001 with friends that I seem to have misplace. The crappy part is that I know I saw this box only weeks ago while I was initially cleaning the closet. Oh well, at least I know it’s in there somewhere.