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Post by mikklynn on Jul 23, 2017 12:42:31 GMT
I realized this week I have trained my family well! Both DS and DDIL sent me texts with photos, followed up with the names of the kid's friends. Yay!
DH knows not to crumple up brochures when we travel.
DD brought the tickets from the ball game she attended with DH.
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Post by LisaDV on Jul 23, 2017 12:48:31 GMT
Yep. My DH & kids do the same.
DH usually wants to make sure we get 2-3 brochures when we're out. 1 to keep in the pocket. I just in case something happens and one to cut up or information out of if I needed it.
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 23, 2017 12:56:32 GMT
Yep. My DH & kids do the same. DH usually wants to make sure we get 2-3 brochures when we're out. 1 to keep in the pocket. I just in case something happens and one to cut up or information out of if I needed it. He's a keeper - he gets it! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2017 12:58:14 GMT
Yes. Dgc give me stuff : "put this in my scrapbook ".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2017 15:14:52 GMT
Yes! My 18 year old sent me all the photos from her recent trip to Florida because she knows I'll print and document for her!
And every time we go some where my husband will suggest photos for me or stop our group so I can snap a picture and grab fliers and memorabilia for me.
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Post by Elsabelle on Jul 23, 2017 16:05:23 GMT
Yes. They all hand me brochures and movie tickets, although they movie tickets are not what they used to be. They're usually good about taking a selfie when they're out without me. And they're very good, and always have been, about stopping whenever I ask to take a picture. Even now that they're teens they never complain about it.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 23, 2017 17:56:31 GMT
I realized this week I have trained my family well! Both DS and DDIL sent me texts with photos, followed up with the names of the kid's friends. Yay! DH knows not to crumple up brochures when we travel. DD brought the tickets from the ball game she attended with DH. All of the above. In fact, if my son wants me to do something he says, "I'll get you lots of photos if you do..." Brochures, tickets, any kind of paper memorabilia, and links to pics of them on friends' pages for me to down load and print. Last week my son went to a formal luncheon and sent me pics of the table setting with his name card, a picture of his name tag, and he brought me the program from the event. |
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Post by pennyscraps on Jul 23, 2017 19:38:03 GMT
Oh I have a fun anecdote to share! ODS and his fiancee came into town this weekend for a shower here. Future DIL came up to me with an envelope, "My mom got 10 of these e-vites for my next shower printed, and I thought you would want one for your scrapbooking." Oh, she melted my heart!!! And yes, I do get texted photos often from my out of town sons. Of course, not as many as I want, but I'll always take what I get!
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Post by mom on Jul 23, 2017 20:41:55 GMT
Yes! DS2 went with his dad on vacation to Colorado and when he came home he had a ziplock bag with post cards he had picked up at every stop, recipes and then texted me photos!
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Post by AmandaA on Jul 23, 2017 20:56:59 GMT
DH is a work in progress (kids are too young other than being cooperative for pictures). He doesn't go out of his way to pick stuff up, but knows not to throw away what he does get. He is pretty good about taking pics when he is out doing things with the kids, but we are still working on his iPhone-tography skills. And he doesn't give me grief about the silly things I take photos of or the number of photos I take of things anymore.
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Post by pennyscraps on Jul 23, 2017 21:24:41 GMT
Yes! DS2 went with his dad on vacation to Colorado and when he came home he had a ziplock bag with post cards he had picked up at every stop, recipes and then texted me photos! Boy, you have trained him well!!! How cute. |
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 23, 2017 22:13:31 GMT
Yes, they are well trained. They save things, smile for pictures, and take pictures on trips we take and send them to me. We even have the gf trained.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 24, 2017 0:15:25 GMT
This is a great thread! Yes, my kids are pretty darn good about giving me stuff for my scrapbooks. My boys are really young (preschool-ish) and they will hand me random things to include on my pages sometimes. I kid you not, about a year ago, my ds ripped off one of the non-skid spots from his bedroom slipper, handed it to me, and said, "For your scrapping." I took it, said a gracious thank you, then couldn't help myself and asked him why. He said, very matter of factly, "It's an enamel dot. They're all over my slippers." Dying!  (And yes, I did glue that bedroom slipper enamel dot onto a layout, and journaled about him giving it to me on the back of the layout.) My younger teen dd went to a day camp again this summer, and brought me back pretty much anything they gave her. And let me photograph her with the things she made. |
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Post by kitbop on Jul 24, 2017 0:24:02 GMT
Pretty well trained! My DH helps out as much as possible and my kids take pictures on their phones for me. Especially with the posing for a picture thing...I get comments ALL the time - I line my teens up for a picture and other Mom's stop and say "My kids won't let me take pictures at all!" I figure it's just because 1. my kids know this is IMPORTANT to me. they want to make me happy  2. my kids actually like looking through the scrapbooks and want to be represented! My 13 year old DD looked at some old pages and noticed that she wasn't cooperating...and that this is what the photo shows...and she doesn't like that. So now she cooperates  |
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Post by melanell on Jul 24, 2017 0:27:27 GMT
Yep! Both DH & my older DS will take photos if I am not around. And DH is great about keeping memorabilia/ephemera for me. DS #2 just hands me every single piece of paper that ever touches his hands at school. He thinks I am going to somehow scrapbook all of them, LOL! |
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 24, 2017 0:33:52 GMT
No, I have to constantly remind them.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jul 24, 2017 0:34:28 GMT
Sometimes. There are times my husband will keep things thinking I may want it for my albums and sometimes he'll take pictures unprompted (he's over taking pictures so he doesn't do it very often anymore) but if I tell him that there is something specific I want to hang onto or bring home (like a brochure or in the case of our recent trip to TX, I kept an eye out for penny squishing machines like I did when we went to Disney a couple of years ago) he will take note and look for the things I want or take care not to destroy it.
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 24, 2017 1:58:23 GMT
No, I have to constantly remind them. Keep the faith, they might get there. It took a LONGGGG time. I burst into tears once, when DS and DDIL would not stop being ridiculous when I was trying to take a family photo of them with their children. That made an impact and they are much better. |
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Jul 24, 2017 3:30:26 GMT
Sometimes yes and at other times it's like pulling teeth to get them to take a photo when they are out without me along to remind them.
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Post by grammadee on Jul 24, 2017 14:06:49 GMT
My ddil's and dd send me photos of the kids having adventures. Family and friends often hand me tickets and programs and brochures they think I might be able to use. When I cut my cruise short last fall to come home for a funeral, my sil who continued on the cruise came back with all the stuff from their day trips I would normally have collected if I had been there: not sure how I would scrap a portion of the trip I had not been on, but she did think of my scrapbooking while she was there without me.
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Post by warrior1991 on Jul 24, 2017 17:37:49 GMT
My sister-in-law does not scrapbook but she organizes pictures for my mom to scrapbook for them. So it was great when her 18 year old son handed her his flower from Prom, asking her to put it in the scrapbook. She (SIL) wasn't going to include it in the book but changed her mind since he asked her to include it. |
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