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Title: family pictures
Post by: Azanne07 on December 17, 2017, 10:09:00 am
How much do you normally spend on your family pictures.

I spend $202

Got pictures a book a cd with all the images a mug, Christmas ornaments(2), Christmas cards, 10 gift tags and probably a good 75/80 photos
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Post by: sbenkoski on December 17, 2017, 10:11:23 am
My storage unit flooded a few years back and i lost all my pictures.... really sad!
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Post by: Azanne07 on December 17, 2017, 10:20:27 am
My storage unit flooded a few years back and i lost all my pictures.... really sad!

I am so sorry for your loss that is why I like the cds. I want to get a fire proof safe and put them all in there.
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Post by: aflyingmonkey on December 17, 2017, 10:51:28 am
I spend nothing on family photos...  we take personal group shots all year round when we are doing events.  Camera phones are awesome... they're all digital.   

Our Christmas Cards are of a holiday family group photo, we paid to have the cards made at Costco.. so maybe $25.

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Post by: gtdoss on December 17, 2017, 10:54:09 am
We used to spend a couple hundred dollars a year on family pictures. Nowadays, with the boys both grown and almost grown (junior in college, senior in high school), we don't take formal family portraits anymore. We do get in a few informal family pictures on our phones, though! :thumbsup:
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Post by: hkckk5 on December 17, 2017, 12:01:28 pm
Don't do family pictures anymore. However, my children get the grandchildren together to get a photograph made of them every few years. I really like that.
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Post by: kdemers0 on December 17, 2017, 08:13:15 pm
Zero! We have a friend that takes photos for us....so I guess maybe like 2 dollars to print a few of them lol
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Post by: sfreeman8 on December 18, 2017, 05:32:45 am
I can't get the whole family together for a group photo like I'd love to have. So, every year at Christmas, I have one of the girlfriends take a photo of my husband and I to document our new wrinkles. :)
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Post by: pectacon on December 18, 2017, 10:02:18 am
Not a cent ideally! We can just snap a picture on any of our phones nowadays. If there's one worth printing I guess that'l run a few bucks.
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Post by: teresa3200 on December 18, 2017, 01:13:46 pm
I haven't had any taken for so long I can't remember.
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Post by: vickysue on December 18, 2017, 02:14:00 pm
We did family  photos at Thanks giving, although mostly my brother and sisters family.  Since their is  only my hubby and I, it didn't take long to do ours. Haven't seen any yet. But am sure they are great.
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Post by: dsosnowski06 on December 18, 2017, 10:37:43 pm
Haven't had a family done in years.  Just use the camera or phone and have them printed. 
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Post by: lhz123 on December 19, 2017, 05:56:32 am
Nope, just doing selfies nowadays :)
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Post by: nannycoe1 on December 19, 2017, 06:01:05 am
It has been a long time since we took family photos. It seem as like pictures only get taken a phones now a days
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Post by: sak4kat on December 19, 2017, 06:04:40 am
We've never had formal family pictures taken.  In fact we are a blended family and our most recent family picture was taken when we got married in 2015. It would be great to have pictures updated - and done with a photographer but the cost is crazy when the convenience of camera's on phones makes it so convenient.
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Post by: snuggleycutejc on December 19, 2017, 09:01:32 am
I didn't have money for taking many pictures. I did the IDing and fingerprinting the kids, and I registered the bicycles, game-systems, etc. I only did enough. Pictures helps with your memories when you get the foggy mentally. 
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Post by: ghunter on December 19, 2017, 09:16:53 am
My daugther-in-law always get up a good deal, so no more than $40.00.
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Post by: darkxtsuna on January 11, 2018, 02:59:52 am
If we plan to frame it or enlarge it around 150$ around that range but it only depends if we really want it or not.
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Post by: Nancy5 on January 11, 2018, 05:34:15 am
We don’t do formal pictures, just pictures when we get together by a phone.
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Post by: bretay on January 11, 2018, 06:11:23 am
we take pictures with our phones or camera
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Post by: kathleenkleinhans on January 11, 2018, 07:01:56 am
Usually they are candids so we dont spend anything!
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Post by: squirrelgirl44 on January 11, 2018, 09:10:58 am
I have not spent any money on family pictures in years. I had a friend/professional photographer take pictures last fall and we never printed them. I save everything digitally.
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Post by: camellia0 on January 11, 2018, 09:50:58 am
I don't pay a lot. I buy a few, then I would get copies made somewhere like CVS, for cheaper.
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Post by: alice44 on January 11, 2018, 10:12:17 am
I wish I lived closer to my family so I could take pictures.  I save and cherish all I can get of the grandkids.  ;D
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Post by: kimber62372 on January 11, 2018, 10:58:24 am
I have not had family pictures done since last year when I was at the Bahamas with my family but my mom paid for them. We were missing one person, which was my son and I was so upset that he didn't go!
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Post by: natashaspy on January 11, 2018, 05:17:33 pm
I don't have pictures made anymore...we just take them with our cameras and print them out ourselves.  So much easier.
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Post by: jkhanson on January 12, 2018, 08:07:52 am
I used to take rolls and rolls of pictures when the kids were young.  I scrap booked the photos into albums.

Once I got a digital camera, the pictures tended to stay in the camera and not as many got printed.

Now with such good cameras on the cell phone, I take many pictures.  I try to send the ones I want to keep to Dropbox so they are safe.

We don't print very many pictures out.
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Post by: mardukblood2009 on January 12, 2018, 08:09:30 pm
We have not had a family picture done in years. I have no idea how much my mom spent. I think I was like 15 when we did that last. I am now 41. lol
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Post by: nmbrown863 on January 15, 2018, 09:04:26 pm
I have never gotten family photos done. Though it is just my husband and I. When we have kids I would like to get them done. My sister does photography on the side so I would probably have her do them.