tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12387810.post1043651848841593700..comments2023-10-11T02:30:20.723-07:00Comments on ScrapBizness: Feels So Good to Be So Bad...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12387810.post-60846789567816565762007-10-01T19:27:00.000-07:002007-10-01T19:27:00.000-07:00I 'rescued' all my grandmother's photos from acidi...I 'rescued' all my grandmother's photos from acidic albums where she'd often scotch-taped them in overlapping each other, cropped them with kitchen shears, wrote on *the fronts* with ball point pen...<BR/><BR/>And I while I'm happy that they are safer now in "safe" scrapbook, those crooked edges and remnants of tape and shaky handwriting just scream "Nana" and give them charm and personality you just don't see in todays sophistocated scrapbooking.<BR/><BR/>Most people would be horrified by how unsafely her photos were stored, yet some are close to 100 years old and they survived dust, little kids' grimy fingers, extreme heat & cold, humidity, and complete ignorance of the "acid free" rule. Your photos are more durable than you think.<BR/><BR/>"Acid free" is a marketing ploy. You can manufacture an acid free product, but you can't make a product that is temperature controlled, dust repellant, sunlight resistant and moisture-proof. All those things will do far more damange (in less time) than acid ever will. Labeling some products "acid free" is like repackaging food products with labels like "Zero trans fat"...when it never had trans fats to begin with!Sandra @ The Memory Workshophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07892816366377089869noreply@blogger.com