GETTING ORGANIZED!
I have been chipping away at getting photographs, newspaper clippings, and stories organized. It took me a while to get it figured out. First, I made twenty folders on my desktop. Then it was easy to transfer photos from the "pictures" on my computer to the appropriate folder. The next step was purchasing twenty sweater boxes in which to PUT all these photographs, clippings, and stories. What has NOT been easy is getting them all labeled correctly with the year-month-day (so that the computer keeps them organized chronologically) and then a few words identifying the subject. I have been using abbreviations like "abt." for about and "poss." for possibly. We cleaned out my husband's sister's house last year and I am just about done filing all of HER pictures which involved first scanning them, then filing on my desktop, and finally filing the hard copies in those sweater boxes. I am about to begin on our pictures which is a projec...