Originally Posted by: Olivia'sNana 
wow. Grammasue, how many years back do they go? Sounds like you have your own family research library. That is amazing. I would not even begin to guess how many hours of work you have put in. What kind of value can someown put on a collection like that when they are priceless. Can they be insured?
I thought I had accomplished a lot. Over the past 5 years I have gotten 26 albums completed spanning my 32 years of marriage. I would estimate on average 20-24 pages per album. That puts me way behind you. Now I want to start tackling some of my parents old photo collection making heritage albums.
I started scrapbooking with the Heritage albums with genealogy charts dating back to 1667. At that time I was big into genealogy. That album probably has 75 scrapbook pages. I then went on to scrapbooking my daughters life. About this time I purchased a huge scanner so that I could scan and print duplicates instead of doing 4 originals for all the kids albums. Well I decided that the copies just weren't the same nor was the print quality all that great, so I gave up on copying pages and made everyone an original. My total pages scrapped include 362 copied pages.
Most of my time is spent designing a page for the pictures and picking out background papers, embellishments and matting color cardstock. I am over the top when it comes to matching everything. I am also in love with Jolee's embellishments which I still use today in lieu of my cricut cuts. A few years ago I attempted to estimate time and cost per page which came to an average of 12 hours per page at a cost of $8.00 per page. Using these estimates I am at 48,744 hours and value at $32,496.00. Hours and cost includes scanning, sizing and printing original pictures, printer photo paper and ink for printing pictures and then cardstock, adhesive, embellishments, etc for making a page. These costs DO NOT include my investment of Cricut or Sizzix products.
As for insurance, I also have a computer inventory file of most everything in the house which qualified me for a reduction in my household insurance rate. And yes my insurance covers all photos, albums, etc. Am not sure how I would come out in them accepting my estimations in cost in determining value of the scrapbook albums.
I've told my grandkids that when I die, DO NOT SELL the bookcases as I had them made with 14-16 inch depth shelves to accommodate the 12x12 albums. The problem these kids will have in their young adult life is finding housing to accommodate their photo albums.
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