Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to print more photos.

Most of our photos exist in the digital space these days.

And for many images, that can be fine. But we should still choose special ones to give a physical form.

Printed photos can become our most cherished possessions, helping us relive memories long after those eras have faded into the past. I am old enough to remember when we

didn't have photos of every moment in our lives.

Probably for a lot of teenage shenanigans, that is a good thing.

But in any case, you would take photos of special events and have to wait a while to get them printed and returned,

with no way to review the images ahead of time.

Some you thought would be great were duds.

But some weren't.

And since they existed in physical form,

you would often put them, somewhere you would look.

These days, we take photos constantly,

50 images to get the exact right tilt of the head.

But then you share the best online and move on.

There is a lack of permanence here.

One of my most treasured possessions is a series of photos of my children from 2018,

that we printed up and framed.

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