What do you do with pictures that people send you? I mean the real, printed on photo paper, glossy prints. It's easy to deal with pictures on Facebook. You can enjoy them for a while and then they go away. I also find it easy to deal with pictures I take on trips. Either they're on my phone and live in 'the cloud' somewhere or I take them with my camera and save the little memory cards. From there I can look at them on my computer or even run a little slide show on my TV. I don't do this very often, probably as often as some people pull out their albums and look at them. In the meantime they only take up a little space in my desk drawer, and someday, when I die, my children can easily throw them away. But back to my original question, I know that the obvious answer is, if I receive pictures that I don't particularly care to save (for instance the picture of a cake that I received today) I should just throw them away. But somehow I feel guilty about pitching something that someone has taken the time to mail to me. So I do what seems natural to me. I stuff the gift pictures in little cubby holes and drawers in my desk and let them mature there. Then, and this is a little like leftovers in the refrigerator, a year or so from now, when I'm searching for something, I'll come upon a picture, wonder why I kept it, and then I can throw it away.
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