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I realized that although we have or have had boxes of pictures and thousands online, and we continue to add to them in our travels, neither I or DW ever look at them. There are just a few on the wall. Son (25) has no interest, at least as yet.
At the end of my first marriage, I ended up with exactly zero family pictures. Although I resented that and missed them for about two years, after that it didn't seem to matter.
Maybe I'm an unsentimental coot, but perhaps we don't really put as much importance on these things as we think we're going to.
It depends on the person and the volume of photos I think. While I didn't have a ton of interest in the boxes upon boxes of photos that were left in my grandmother's house, I do look at my own childhood pictures from time to time. If there are more of those somewhere in my parents' house, I'd want them. We definitely look at our pictures that we've uploaded to Shutterfly (mainly of trips we've taken).
Photos are definitely a big issue. My friend and I found a cabinet of insanely well-organized slides and negatives in her father-in-law's house. I told her we needed to get rid of them before any estate sale as vintage Kodacolor slides actually sell quite well on Ebay and people would be purchasing those for resale. She agreed that she didn't want that to happen.