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Modern photography has made mind-boggling advances only very recently. Many photos that you might toss as unsalvageable can be rescued. You'd be amazed. I have only delved into this superficially but you'd be astounded at the results.
Within a few years, I believe a 7 year old could salvage the far too dark, the blurry, the over-exposed photographs.
I have print photos from a 1974 George Harrison concert that a friend helped me restore and they look better than the ones that I received from being processed back then!
What photo processing plants use to do, and I think may still do to save time and $, is run an average exposure on the entire roll of film so that over or under exposed shots may not have been your fault at all.
I also am leery of tossing actual prints and negatives as at least you have something physical.
For example, my old computer is chock full of documents that I hope I can soon transfer to my present computer, plus loads of paraphernalia made in now-obsolete software programs that I cannot access unless I get my old computer going again. Otherwise all that work is gone!
My Mac Performa and printer was working last time I checked. Although finicky, I think a battery might be all that is needed. That and a nice Mac nerd. People are starting to collect the older computer as memorabilia. S I am seriously considering doing so.
I know. I should be trying to get rid of things. Maybe the important thing is if the photos, documents, creative writing, scrapbook pages can be replaced, I'd best at least consider keeping them. (I can always toss them later.)
Most paperwork, such as bills, can be replaced so easily. Nothing personal about them!
Instead, I'll toss a few hand-me-down sweaters that never would be flattering even if I lost that perpetual excess 20 pounds.
But any photos with a double chin or multiple prints- I plan on tossing.
There. I just made some concessions!
