Scrapbooks and Yearbooks?

[justmeandmybrood]

Here are my questions for my project this week:

1) I have 2 boxes of 12x12 scrapbooks (have stopped making them now due to space!). We have only 2 cabinets but the books are too big, They are currently living partly in a box and most of them are standing up library-style in milk crates on the closet shelf, driving me nuts! Would love to hear how others handle these mammoth books

2) Do you keep your yearbooks? I had wonderful high school and college experiences and smile when looking at the yearbooks, but they are so large.

Thanks!

[sunnysandiegan]

1) I don't scrap 12x12 precisely due to the storage issue. I scrap 8.5x11 (and smaller mini books) and put them on the bookcase along with other books we share with family and friends (in living room). They are easy to grab in the event of evacuation, too. (Been there, done that.)

2) I have the yearbooks that are meaningful to me and DH. They are on a bookcase upstairs in our family office on the bottom shelf behind solid doors (half the shelf is dedicated to yearbooks and similar). They fit upright like other books. I arranged the shelves so that the tallest books are all along that shelf (adjustable shelves). The rest of this bookcase is arranged by subject, so it works fairly well and we never forget where they are.

We don't have a lot of clutter and I don't consider scrapbooks or yearbooks to be clutter for us. We enjoy looking through them. Plus, I end up getting rid of a LOT of paper memorabilia when I create a scrapbook. I keep only the best and/or most meaningful and I either give the other stuff to pertinent people or I recycle it as soon as the book is finished. A scrapbook is far more compact than stacks of stuff shoved into boxes and nooks and crannies (for me)!!!

My advice is to build them into your everyday living spaces if you find them enjoyable to view.

[zebra15]

Well I dont have 'yearbooks' I thearputically lost them once when moving. :shurg. I need to make some scrapbooks for DS tho'. My first step is to get all pics organized and figure out what I'm doing. I have a coffee table that has huge drawers and in a perfect world that is where I would store the 12x12 books. This coffee table also has a glass top with storage under it so they could store there as well. However *I* felt much better when I lost those high school yearbooks. HS was horrible for me and well... I guess thats my issue LOL

[justmeandmybrood]

I hate that we have no adjustable shelves...I will need to get creative, I guess!

Zebra, if you plan to lay the books down, make sure you check out the info on how to store them...I seem to recall when I got into scrapping many years back that just like wedding photo albums, scrapbooks will be more safely stored standing up.

Thanks for your input!

[~Adorkable~]

I agree that properly done scrapbooks are a ton less clutter than the piles of stuff that go in them. I currently have scrap boxes and it is lame waste of space and cool things.

And yeah for me books are rarely ever clutter, i love the look of a wall of books and consider adjustable shelves a must have since I also have large art books that require them. Laying them flat is asking for pages to stick together.