Projects like sorting through old family photos on the rise during pandemic

While safe at home during the pandemic, many people have been passing the time by sorting through old photo albums.

Angela Turner is a professional organizer who runs Saskatoon Organizing Systems. She says it’s a great time to get started on a project like this.

“Myself and my daughter were going through some photos the other day. A lot of people are thinking about that right now – you’re trying to have quality time, so you’re going through some old memories.”

She says she has been busy lately helping customers convert their photos to digital form as it’s a great way to organize and protect them.

“We have thousands and thousands of digital photos that are spread all over the place on all of our devices, and so I have been helping people collect those pictures and put them into a central hub, and then backing them up so that they have access to them and can find them when they need to find the pictures.”

Turner says during this time she is able to work from home scanning pictures for clients, and communicating with them by phone or video call.

For those organizing their own photos, Turner says sort them based on how you would retreive them.

“If somebody said to you, ‘do you have that picture of uncle Larry from so and so’s wedding?’ What criteria would you use to go find that? Would you go and look under weddings or would you suspect to find it under uncle Larry?”

She is hopeful people will appreciate how important our family photos are.

“Photos might be one day the only thing we have left of our loved ones, so we want to really make sure we are protecting them and taking care of them.”