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How to organize your photos without overwhelm. Smart strategies to preserve your memories with expert tips from a photo organizer #146

• Caroline Thor - Professional Organizer - KonMari® Consultant

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Drowning in digital photos? Lost in a sea of print photos?

If you’ve ever spent way too long searching for that one special picture—or worse, feared losing your family memories forever—this episode is for you.

Photo clutter is real. Thousands of digital photos scattered across devices. Boxes of print photos stuffed in drawers. It’s overwhelming, and let’s be honest… it’s one of those things you keep meaning to organize, but never actually get around to.

It’s time to change that.

In this episode of Living Clutter Free Forever, I sit down with photo organizing expert Megan from Megnanimous to break down simple, stress-free strategies to declutter, organize, and actually enjoy your photos—without spending hours sorting.

🎯 What if organizing your photos didn’t have to feel like a massive project?
🎯 What if small, simple changes could make a huge difference in how you store and find your most precious memories?

Megan shares smart, doable strategies for digital and print photo organizing, declutter strategies you can start today, and KonMari-inspired ways to keep only what truly matters—without guilt.

Say goodbye to photo overwhelm. Say hello to a system that works for you.

🎧 Tune in now: How to Organize Your Photos Without Overwhelm: Smart Strategies to Preserve Your Memories with Expert Tips from Megan at Megnanimous.

✨ Hit play and start organizing your memories—without the stress.

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Speaker 1:

Hi there, I'm Caroline Thor, professional organiser, konmari consultant, teacher and mum of three. I started off my life as a mum feeling overwhelmed, disorganised and desperately trying to carve out some time for me amongst the nappies, chaos and clutter. One day, one small book called the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying changed everything and I began to learn strategies for making everyday life easier. Today, I have the systems in place that means life can throw almost anything at me, and I want to share them with you. If you're an overwhelmed mum struggling to keep it together, then this is the podcast for you. Grab a coffee and settle in for a quick chat with someone who gets your reality. Hello and welcome to this latest episode of the Living Clutter-Free Forever podcast.

Speaker 1:

I'm Caroline, and I'm a KonMari consultant and professional organiser, and today I am going to be talking to Megan who, who is a photo organizer. I actually first came across Megan while scrolling through Instagram one day and I was blown away by her amazing tips and tricks for organizing photos. It's not something I'm great at. It's not something I've spent a large amount of time doing. I have all my photos collected in one place, but I wouldn't call them organized in any way, shape or form. So I am excited to share this interview with you that I had a couple of weeks ago. It is absolute gold. You are going to love it, and the members of Clutterfree Collective are super excited because she's coming to do a bonus training with us in April, so we're all looking forward to that. I hope you love this conversation as much as I loved having it.

Speaker 1:

Hi, megan, welcome to the podcast. Hi, welcome, so excited to be here. It's so, so great. I've been watching you on Instagram and thinking, oh my goodness, I know so many people who would really really benefit from photo organizing. So thank you so much for making the time to come and talk to me today. Perhaps you'd first of all like to tell people a little bit about yourself yes, so my name is Megan.

Speaker 2:

I have a business. It's called Meg Nanimus, and I help people make sense of their photo messes. So I do that mostly digitally. I use like remote login technology like Apple Help Desk, and I work right on people's computers anywhere in the world to organize their photos, help them get backed up, create a system that works for them and, locally, I also work with print photos and I scan photos and I also design family photo books for very busy moms who would like those in their lives. So it has anything to do with a photo, digital or print. I am your girl and I've always had a lifelong love of photography. My mom was a hobbyist photographer. I used to model. I've always had photos all over my life, so it's been a lifelong passion of mine.

Speaker 1:

Amazing. Now I know from my own life and from when I go to visit clients. We either have drawers full of printed photos if we're my age and a bit older, because we were printing things out in our youth and we've got drawers and drawers of the stuff that we've never got around to doing anything with. And then fast forward to today and we've got people who have got tons and tons of digital photos, usually on their phone, usually not even backed up anywhere, which is really scary if you lose that phone and they've never got round to, as you say, creating a photo book or printing them out or doing anything with them or having any sort of organisation. So what are the biggest challenges you notice people face when it comes to organizing their photos?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so the biggest like challenge most people have is either print or digital. They're just scattered in so many places You're not even sure where they are. Especially, I find that's even worse with digital photos than printed. Usually with printed you have them in a box somewhere. Maybe they're in your attic garage, maybe you have a few boxes. They're not too scattered but they're usually like you know, together.

Speaker 2:

But with digital photos they're on, they're trapped on cloud services. People don't even know how to get them out. You know they're trapping cloud services. You have them on CDs, you have them on all these outdated medias that you feel like you need a tech degree to kind of like access them. So people don't have this technological like you know acumen to like get them and they're afraid. They're like I don't know how to even download my photo from iCloud or Google Photos or wherever, but it's the same, they're all scattered everywhere. Or Google Photos or wherever, but it's the same, they're all scattered everywhere and when you're trying to find them you don't even know where to go to find them. Especially with digital photos. You're like where is that photo? Is it? It could be on my Facebook wall. It could be in a drawer, on a hard drive. It could be in my email somewhere. It's just like a disaster.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I so relate to this, and my husband despairs of my ability to organize photos. Well, he despairs of my ability to organize full stop. As anyone that listens to this podcast regularly knows, I naturally am disorganized, and where I have systems in place, we're all super good. Now, but I've never done that with my photos, and when the kids were little I used to save them under headings like third birthday. I didn't even put a year on the folder, so now trying to locate anything is really, really hard. So how can people overcome these problems that they've? Because we've created these problems basically by not having a system in the first place. As we've taken the photo, we've not done anything with it, we've not saved it somewhere sensible or in one central location. So how can we now overcome this problem?

Speaker 2:

And they're a tangible item you can physically pick up. And you know, the first step with any type of organizing, as you know, is gathering them into one place. So get a tub, a bin, walk around your house, get all those print photos into one place, just dump them in, get them all together, because then you'll know exactly what you do have all together. And then I like to do a first pass through printed photos, just like, hold it, you know, five seconds max. Like do I want to keep this? Like is it, you know, as Marie Kondo says, is it sparking joy for me? Or what that really means is like is there a person in it? Usually, is it telling some sort of story or is it showing some type of emotion? And you put those in your, your a pile, your, yes, I know I want to keep these. Maybe I like to scan them, maybe I would like to put them in an album, your a keeper pile. Then you have your like trash pile and that should be easy. It's like blurry photos, photos with like bad, bad red eye on it, or duplicates, because they used to print photos. And like duplicates, triplicates, you definitely don't need three of the same photo. I inherited my husband's dad's photos and his mom's photos and there was just so many of just like blurry photos. So I was like how has this photo been kept for 30, 40 years? I understand, but they just do, they just didn't want to get rid of them. So I was just like hold it for a short amount of time and just make that decision yes, keep, yes, yes, trash. So I would just do a quick first pass through the photos and then you get into how you actually want to organize them and you need to set up some high level categories for your photos. So first you do your first pass and you think of and I like I say broader categories. Some people try to do it year by year and it is very tedious to do that. It can be done, I have done it.

Speaker 2:

But I like to suggest like bigger, broader, like decades, like a whole, like 10 year decade period, or for me, a lot of my printed photos are organized by places I've lived. I've lived in seven different states. So I have like my childhood years of like when I lived in Virginia, then I have like my college years I lived in Tennessee. Then I have like my after college, before Mary, where I was in Georgia and then I have like my married years, or I was in Alaska for a little while and then I have like everything else, like my, and I've just broken mine down into places I I've lived.

Speaker 2:

So I find that it's like handy decades, places you've lived, you can do events, um, like school years, grade school, upper school, college are themes like birthdays, weddings, holidays, because I find we tend to remember and think of a photo, not by years but of what's going on in the photo, like it's a christmas photo or a birthday photo or some of mine. I just have them like, especially my husband's family photos just in, like the Hepburn family photos, like genealogy related, like it's just like kind of big masses of time, because I don't know who half the people are and I can kind of tell some of the decades. I'm like, yeah, this is definitely hair for styles from the 60s, you know.

Speaker 1:

I love that. That is brilliant, and I know how hard it is to go through. I've actually got someone in my membership, rolene, and she inherited from her parents hundreds and hundreds of photos on slides and I know she's going through them all at the moment, like 300 at a time, painstakingly checking which ones does she want to keep and which ones does she want to let go, and really being very intentional about it. So I think that advice is really good to sort of do a first pass and then sort them according to category. Okay, but what about digital?

Speaker 2:

yeah. So the digital it's that you start the same, where you gather them. But this is where you run into the problem, because digital photos a lot of them are on all these cloud services and they're kind of like trapped in those cloud services like iCloud or Google Photos, and people are just not sure how to download their photos. Where physical photos, you can walk around your house with a box, pick them up and put them in, you can't quite do that with a digital photo. But you do need to get them all in one place and I usually suggest getting an external hard drive and then you download them all onto your external hard drive, you get them off your CDs, you get them off your thumb drives, you get them off your computer, your email, you download them off your cloud and you get them off your computer, your email, you download them off your cloud and then you think about okay, where do I want to put all of them once you have them on this external hard drive?

Speaker 2:

And I usually suggest people usually have it's usually some cloud service now and it's usually the one where they have the most photos. Like for me, I have an iPhone, I have a Mac, my whole life is in Apple Photos, aka iCloud. Some people may have been using Google Photos since it came out, so once you get them all into your external hard drive, then you can start uploading, looking what you already have there and putting them on there. And most of these services have great technology where it can determine if it has duplicates of the photos and digital photos. It's great because it has all this metadata attached and it knows the date you took it, it knows where you took it, it knows the time. It knows so many things about the photos that these services can like do a lot of organizing and like sorting for you. So it's not necessary to then like hugely put them in folders and years, because you can use the technology of these services I had never really thought about that, but you're right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so we, we don't need to be sort of manually shifting things from one folder to another once we've got things open. We can. We can organize it through that. That is genius okay, exactly.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you can't like some people, like my mom. It doesn't like online services. She has everything in folders on her external hard drive. That is her happy place. You know she's of a different generation and that works for her and you can. And there's programs that will store your photos for you into folders using that data. It's amazing, but if you have everything on these cloud services, they can tell you. They know that there's a dog in the photo, they know it's a car, so I suggest it's like. Instead, you start making digital photo albums and that's how you organize your photos. You create digital photo albums in that cloud service you like to use of things like I have two boys, so I have one best of boy, one best of boy. Two, I have one best of my pets. I have one that's best of siblings. So you think about, like, the story you want to tell of your life through your photos is it family connection, adventure? And then you start thinking about what digital album can I make to help me find those photos that are important to me?

Speaker 1:

I've never really thought before about organizing photos not by year. This, this is quite a revelation for me today that I really hadn't thought about that. I've always. I've always thought, okay, I need, I need them organized by year. That's important, but it isn't.

Speaker 2:

You're right, you can have like these categories and that actually makes it so so much easier yes, it makes so much easier and no one thinks like when they're going to find a photo, they don't think, oh, I took that photo in March 2003. Like, after 10 years have passed, you can't even remember what year you took that vacation to Greece. But you know you took a vacation and if you took it on a digital phone, it knows where you were. And using these search tools of like Google Photos or iCloud, you could just type in the word beach, type in some other keywords, and it will find that photo for you like super fast and it's amazing.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I think I need you in my pocket while I'm organizing my photos. You're making it sound so easy, which I just love. I just love this. Okay, so that means that even if you're a busy mom who's completely overwhelmed by life which is most of the people listening to this podcast you can create simple systems for organizing and preserving your family memories without it becoming super stressful. So I love that and that is really great. Ok, let's just skip back a moment.

Speaker 1:

To well, it could be digital, but I think sometimes, very often, I find this more with physical photos. What is your advice for dealing with ones that are very sentimental? So I very often have the case that people perhaps have been handed down photos from relatives. They've got photos of family members who have passed, but they maybe don't even particularly know them very well, but they have real guilt about letting them go because it's a family member, because their parents have cherished these photos, or maybe they didn't even cherish them. They just held on to them because they didn't ever get around to doing anything with them, and now you've got them. So have you got any advice for dealing with sentimental photos and this guilt about letting them go?

Speaker 2:

Well, I find that if it is a photo of a person, even if you don't know who that person is, I don't have a problem keeping those photos. But if you have absolutely no idea what it is, who it is and it tells no story of you, then you know it's more about quality over quantity. You know a small amount of photos can very much tell a story versus more photos. You know what I'm saying and I like to say it's like if you have hundreds, hundreds, thousands of photos and they're just sitting in a box and no one is looking at them, no one is doing anything with them, it's not serving anyone to like, is this photo telling me something about my life or a person, then take those and take an old school album and slip them into that album and then put them on a bookshelf so someone can grab them and flip through them and enjoy them and look at them, because they're not serving anyone, just sitting in a box where no one can see them.

Speaker 1:

No, definitely. I'm really grateful to my father because he has lots of old photos of his family, sort of black and white photos of his parents with their parents and their siblings. Like you, I mean, obviously I never I never met them, but he has very painstakingly written on the back of photos everyone's names and their date of birth and their date of death, so it's become, as you say, sort of a genealogy for our family. It will be interesting for my kids to be able to look at those in the future and they do actually have the information who these people are, what relation they were to them, and that's, I think, when it becomes interesting to keep it, because it has some meaning to you and your life, whereas just a random photo of some lady in a dress standing outside a church and you've got no idea who she is, it doesn't, as you say, have anything to do with your story.

Speaker 2:

I love that, the idea of thinking of it as telling your story yes, because I I know I inherited so, so many photos and I'm like I and luckily like I inherited them and then my husband's parents they're still alive, so I can then like scan them and I've been like who, who is this, what is this, this? And sometimes they know. If they don't know, I'm just like, well, then it can go. And it is true, I'm so grateful and a pencil can be your best friend with printed photos and writing on the back I call it the four W's, like who it is, where it is, what, the time period is, any information you can write on that. Because print photos they don't require any technology to view. Anyone can look at it and read them and just writing scribbling on the back of the piece of pencil like any information you do know it does go a long way. I'm so thankful when I turn those photos around and someone has put like sometimes there's full stories on there. I'm just like thank you.

Speaker 1:

Yes, there, that's really beautiful. Actually, while we're talking about this, it's actually making me think because we live in Germany. So my kids went to kindergarten here, and German kindergartens are amazing at putting together the most detailed folders for each child so that when they leave they're given these folders and there's like a photo record of all their time in kindergarten, all the things they took part in, with stuff written underneath and who else was in the photo with them. They're beautiful and even though my kids are now sort of in their teenage years, they still get a lot of joy from taking these folders out and looking through them, especially when friends come over who were also at kindergarten with them. They think it's hilarious to look back at how they used to look when they were three and they were sitting in a pile of mud in the garden.

Speaker 1:

Um, and I don't know that not having things printed out and able to like leaf through them and look at them is actually good for us. I think actually having tangible photos to sit and hold and look at whether that's in one of these printed books that you can now get or actual printed out photos is actually really good for us. It like creates a connection. I don't know that we necessarily ever pick up our phones and start going oh, I must look back at when I was at kindergarten, whereas if it's there in a book to pick up it's much easier. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think it is important that we have like physical copies, almost, of some photos to look back through?

Speaker 2:

yes, exactly, and what you were saying, that I have two small boys, so I have a three-year-old and a seven-year-old and they don't have devices they can't pick up. Sometimes they'll ask me for my phone and to pick up to scroll through photos. Like us, as adults, we can like open our photo library, scroll through, look at them, but I think it's so important, especially for kids, to print out photos where, whether it's I make digital, like photo books, I make one a year. That's what I have decided. That's how I am going to do. My memory keeping is one photo book of a year and it has about 200 photos in it. That's what I've decided, and you can decide to print maybe five photos a month of like the best photos, print them out, slip them into an album. But it's so important that kids can have access to the photos where they can, just, like mine, stumble upon.

Speaker 2:

I have these photo books everywhere in my house. I have them on a coffee table, I have them on bookshelves. Some of them are of me and my husband before we had kids, and they still love to pull them off and flip through them, especially my seven year old. He goes through there, he goes, goes through mom I'm going to go back to mini golf again, or where were we in this photo? So then you can then tell that story of what you were doing, where you were, especially at times when they were young that they might not necessarily remember without having a photograph.

Speaker 2:

But printed photos are so special and, as I said before, they don't require any technology to view Like. I have a printed photograph, the oldest one I have is from 1930. It is in perfect condition because it's been kept in you know a box out of you know humidity and whatnot, and they're just special when you're holding it. It just does something more than looking at it on your phone. It's just that tangible nature, being able to hold it where you just like, get more emotion from it. But yeah, and they say it's like it's really important the kids to see themselves in photos in your house because it shows them that they are part of your family community yeah, I love that and I it's just made me remember actually something else that my mum did when the kids were young, because we don't see my parents very often.

Speaker 1:

We would see them maximum twice a year and my mum, after each visit when they were little, from when they were tiny, she would get like a really small photo book, that where the page was literally the size of one photo and you could fit perhaps 15, 20 photos in there and she would print out photos from the visit and put them in and send them the photo book. So we've got these photo books and I ended up getting a really nice box to keep them in and put them in there. They regularly get this box out and will just sit looking through the photos that my mother's put together of all the visits she had with them. They are so, so special to them and I see over the years how important physical photos are to my kids and I feel really guilty because I haven't printed out many photos from my kids' childhood.

Speaker 1:

I don't have photo books. I bought albums with the intention when my first child was born, that this is like 18 years ago now, nearly that I was going to print out photos and each year I would do a photo album for them. And life just happened and it's not something I ever got around to doing and I feel really bad about it now. So I think I need to do what you're suggesting. So go through my digital photos, create photo books, get them printed out.

Speaker 2:

That would seem to be perhaps the best option for me now, having not done it after all this time yes, and if you have a big gap of time where you're trying to fill, don't go back and try to make a photo book for every year. Make one big one, and it could be literally one photo per month per year. That's 12 photos a year. That's really all that. You could need just one or two a month. Just pick the best and put them in a photo book and call it done and just put it in one big photo book. You could be like from birth to graduation, you know. Uh, yeah, you know, I think you said there maybe 18 years ago, so you could just do one big book for either, maybe each of them and just put a few from every year in there. It doesn't have to be every photo, every. Yeah, from everything you know. Start with like small things, and I like to start like making the digital photo albums first, like scrolling through and looking like, okay, I'll pick my few favorite ones from this month and a few favorite ones from that month and then, once you have them, you can then throw them into, either print them out and put them in a book or go to one of the photo book sites and they'll just lay them out for you once you all have them in there, you just throw them in there and you're like, oh, I have a book done, it really doesn't have to take as much time. We're just trying to make it too hard by trying to put too many photos in one place and and that's something that you can do small tasks at a time and you mentioned like busy moms creating like a simple system and I, I have a habit where every day, I look at my digital photos.

Speaker 2:

I do it at night. I call it the evening edit. So I look at the photos I took that day and some days maybe I took one photo, maybe I took zero, so that's gonna take me way less than five minutes. So I delete the photos. I delete any random screenshots. I took photos of something else trying to remember, like my license plate or something near duplicate.

Speaker 2:

I will look through the three I took and I picked the best one. I will then curate them. I'll be like is there any of my best, of the best I need to put in my best of the kid album? Okay, I'll do that. Do I want to make any edits to these? Now? Phones are so great I don't really need to edit any photo at any time. Then, like I'm like, oh, is there a good photo my mom would like on her digital photo frame? I'll send that to her photo frame and then I'll make sure you know I have everything going to like my backup app system. So I like to do that every day. If you do a little task, it can be it takes you less than five minutes. And then if you're doing every day you're making, adding to an album for like that year, at the end of the year you're going to have one already done and you could just get it printed wow, oh, that sounds like the dream, megan.

Speaker 1:

That sounds like the dream.

Speaker 2:

You just have to make it less of a chore and more of a ritual, as I say it's like, instead of focusing on the junk photos. People have this tendency, especially digital photos, to focus on okay, I'm going to clean up my photos, so I need to delete a bunch of stuff, and that is exactly kind of like the reverse. You need to focus on the best, what you want to keep, what's telling your story, what you want to pass on. Focus on those and it makes the whole process more enjoyable. And I also like to make a cup of tea. I get my snuggly wanky out. I make it a whole like nicer ritual for myself, other than like it's something I have to do or ritual for myself, other than like it's something I have to do.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love that, because the whole premise of the KonMari method is to focus on what you want to keep, not on what you want to let go. And I think you're quite right. When it comes to digital stuff and I've seen this with people with emails as well it's like I need to delete, I need to go through and delete rather than what do I want to keep? And once you've decided what you want to keep, you can then like bulk, delete everything else because you know that's not what you want.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I find it easier once you've determined like what you do want to keep. Then it becomes easier to get rid of the other things because you're like well, that is not really saying anything about me or my family, so it makes it easier to delete. And if you keep going through them, I find it sometimes easier to get rid of stuff that's older, you're like I don't really remember that it's clearly you know. You're like okay, I can delete that now yeah, definitely, oh, okay.

Speaker 1:

So I wanted to ask you one final question, and I'm just going to sneak it in before the end because I know it's something lots of people um will be interested in. Technology is changing all the time, so what are the best ways to ensure that our photos are safe and accessible and easily shareable for future generations? We've already talked about sort of making sure we're saving them and and printing out photo books, so I guess that covers the future generations. But how do we make sure they're safe and accessible?

Speaker 2:

yeah. So we did talk about printing them and that is probably you know. Think about storytelling, not just storage. That is one of the most important ways that you can make a backup is to print them. But also it's important especially with these digital photos, and a lot of people are using iCloud and it doesn't really back up our photos in the way we think it does. It just kind of syncs them across devices. So I think it's always important to have them in a place like off the cloud where you have locally, like that local hard drive I suggested when I was talking about digital photos.

Speaker 2:

If you download them all, you are in possession of your photos. You're not using the rented space on someone's cloud server. So you have them on your hard drive and then you can then choose to back them up and on a second hard drive you can put them then on a different cloud backup service, because we have things like google photos is like considered backup or you could put them somewhere like on Dropbox or OneDrive or Backblaze. There's so many different places, but having that um original, as I say, local copy that you kind of own, that is in your possession, I find is really important because if something happens to a cloud service or they decide that they no longer want to hold your photos or they want to jack up the prices a lot, then you have them and they're safer and you can decide what you want to do with them.

Speaker 2:

So every year I like to download my year's worth of photos to my external hard drive. Every year. I do it yearly. I just have like a reminder, like okay, it's time, download those, put them on there. I have that year.

Speaker 1:

That is great advice, and I know that probably these days, because things are backing up into clouds, it's not as likely to happen, but you've heard these horror stories about people that have lost their phone and their photos of their new baby. The only photos they had of them were on their phone and it's all gone and they've lost it all. So this backing up regularly is so, so important.

Speaker 2:

Yes, because I have lost. I lost a whole year of photos. So my house was broken into in 2018 and they got my camera and my computer and that was the one place where I had some photos. The only place they were on was on that computer or on that digital camera drive like my son's second birthday photos, like I tend to use the digital, like my nice mirrorless camera instead of my phone in my vacation photos and the only place they were were on that computer. And that's kind of like what started my obsession with backing up photos and protecting photos. It's because I lost a full year of photos and if I'd had a backup system at that time, it could have been completely prevented.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I'm so sorry that happened to you. That's really awful.

Speaker 2:

I know you never know, and I've heard so many stories now, after I started helping other people protect their photos, that they lost them. Icloud just lost them, or they actually deleted them, or their hard drive got stolen, or you never know.

Speaker 1:

Anything can happen at any time yeah, and photos are the one thing, like people often say. You know, if there was to be a fire or a flood or whatever, the photos is what they would most miss, because they you can't, they're not something that you can replace if all you've got is one copy of them. And they're our story, as you said, and they're our connection to our past and they're so, so important. So I think it's something that we do need to think about how we organize and how we look after them and also, I think, for future generations. I'm slightly obsessed with family history and stuff. It is so amazing to be able to look back and see where you've come from and your connection to the past as well, and photos allow us to do that in such a tangible way.

Speaker 2:

Yes, they are. They're such a treasure that we get to hold. You know they're so special. Yeah, they really deserve to be treated that way.

Speaker 1:

I have loved talking to you about this. Where can people? As I said, I found out about you from Instagram and I've been following you there, so where can people find out more about you or connect with you?

Speaker 2:

Yes, well, I hang out on Instagram a lot. They can find me there. I'm always giving tons of free tips and tricks, so my Instagram is at itsmagnanimous. I'm sure you'll have this typed out in the show notes. This is not the easiest thing to spell, so that's where I mostly hang out. You can find all my other links to everything there on Instagram.

Speaker 1:

Amazing. Well, if you've listened to this episode and you've enjoyed it, go and say hello to Megan and send her a message on Instagram, or come over to my Instagram at carothor and send me a message as well and let us know what you've thought about this episode. We would love to hear from you, megan. Thank you so much for your time today. I've loved talking to you and it's just such an important topic and not something that I'm great on when it comes to organization so good to have an expert here.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it's been a pleasure speaking with you and there's going to be so much you're going to think of after this and be like oh, I can totally do it now. It doesn't have to be as hard as I'm making it.

Speaker 1:

Brilliant. Thank you Well. I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. I learned so many important tips and ideas for things I'd never even thought of. I think my biggest takeaway is going to be that I don't have to organize my photos by year. I think. Having not done it for so long, I was feeling very overwhelmed by having to do that, so I feel like now I've got a good reason for why it's going to be easier and I need to just get on and do it. So I hope you're feeling inspired to organise your photos too.

Speaker 1:

Keep listening to this podcast. I have got some exciting news coming up in the next couple of weeks that I can't wait to share with you, and so until next time, if you've enjoyed this episode, please send the link to a friend you know would appreciate it, subscribe and leave a review. I look forward to bringing you more organizing tips next time, but if you can't wait until then, you can go to my website or find me on Instagram, at carothor, or on Facebook at Caroline Organizer. Thanks for listening, and I look forward to guiding you on your journey to find your clutter-free ever after.