Do you have family photos in your home

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I have pictures in my room of my parents, my brother and my nieces and nephews. I have many more pictures of them and other family members (such as my sisters, my grandparents and my pets) in a photo album that's in the garage.

Olive, I love your "rules" for photos/decor! I tend to absorb things/observe without realizing it and then suddenly end up realizing I have a really definite structured system for things like that. (Usually I realize when answering questions like this post!)


I don't have many people-photos up, though I do take lots of photos of family and friends and come from a family where there are one or two in each generation who take a ton. For a long while, having photos up reminded me too much of wakes/funerals. Now it's more that I'm bad at sorting through them, editing them, then making choices about which ones to print up and then getting around to it and then figuring out where to put them.

I do not have any family photos in my home. I prefer to have pictures of animals such as lions, dogs or cats.

i have a photo of my nephew next to my television.

I can top the reminding you of funerals thing. In my family we actually take several pictures of the dead person in the casket. Some relatives actually have them blown up and hang them in their house. My Aunt Louise had a whole wall in her living room of big black and white pictures of dead relatives in their caskets. It was above the piano. She had a den too and hung them in the living room. That's not the main reason that it's tacky. If someone doesn't get it, I can't explain it. Hanging pictures of dead relatives in their caskets isn't covered under any rules I know because it's only one step away from dead relative taxidermy in my opinion. At least she grouped them all together.

This is one reason why, when I'm dead and embalmed and put in my casket for the viewing, I want my eyes left open dammit! 1. It takes tons of tries to get a picture of me with them open now, while I'm alive. I'd like my final one to be a good one. 2. This will prevent anyone from taking a picture of me. Maybe. 3. It'll freak the f**k out of everybody because nobody will be expecting it.

I don't like having photos out on display. It makes me feel like people are looking at me and it creeps me out. I just have one small photo of some relatives on display in a bookcase where it is not obvious.

Only one of my father which died while i as a child.

I have one family photo that was taken at my sister's wedding and a few pictures of my niece.

I have a couple from my wedding, and one of my dad. I have a few of nieces and nephews on the fridge. I would like to have a few from my childhood, but my mother would not let me copy them Not unexpected , but that's another thread.

Then don't come to my funeral!

Sorry. Read the post above your own.

I couldn't resist. I'm in a strange mood tonight. Maybe it's the full moon, maybe it's my hormones, who knows.

That's funny you could always be sitting up in your casket facing everyone.

That would take away the element of surprise. Well, as much of one anyway. It would be more disturbing to walk up there all ready to look at me dead and looking "so natural" and there I am freaking staring at them!

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don't invite me than I will do a Bart Simpson on you .....