Travel Light But Get Double Prints

Less is more, light in life, clutter free zone.  We all want that.  While getting a personal organizer is an option (yeah spoiled), but really, we can do it ourselves.  Yes.  We can do it.  Toss out what we don't need, remember what is in the mystery boxes of storage shelving, or what somebody else may find handy.  Create more cubic air in our homes and in our lives.  How hard can it be?  Seems this expression has been overused by me lately, according to my husband (just because he:
a) put in a new bathroom sink/ cabinet
b) managed 1200lbs of Arizona fossils stone for a side yard (necessary) patio
c) cut down 50 cubic feet of the most stubborn bouganvillas this side of the 101.

Whilst talking to my cousin, my travel ignitor, pet pusher and confidant...we'll call him SPF for short.
Scudly P. Farkas.  I think I know what the "P" stands for but I digress...I may not.  We grew up together and I've always looked up to him...not just 'cause I'm on the edge of the "average" scale and he the "tall."  He's thinky, funny, left (another blog) and well, I can talk to him about anything...and I mean anything, like googling guavas, etc.  He's a few years older than me.

Tonight we discussed the photo collection.  We grew up artistic and probably both got Mickey Mouse cameras from our various grandmothers.  Me, Grandma Lola...He, Grandma Goldie.  I really did receive one and this must be how it all started, for me anyway.  110 film.  Anybody from latter 70's era, one hour photo and yes, double prints please, would know.  During my Mickey Mouse camera days the film roll lasted for months, then it took months to take it to be developed.  My aunt Jackie had it goin' on as she had a secret place she's send her film to (although probably a Vivitar or Canon, not Mickey Mouse).  I though that was awesome, although I didn't formalize it.

Tab return, backspace.  So SPF and I pleasantly banter and analyse the history of "how the bins have filled with multiples, mucho pix and miscellaneous nostalgia."  I have narrowed (sifted) our collection down to three plastic bins...one clear and two solid (labeled..."pix").  First off and easy for the recyle bin is the double prints.  My goodness!!  What was the forthinking back then as to why one would need two?  Two prints each...double prints.  Double trouble.  It will come back to haunt you some day.  Some day you will be in the garage sifting your photos and tossing half.  Back then, it was 12 or 36 count film, SPF and I conclude that we'll go with the averaage...lets say 24.  24 times two...yikes = 48.  Okay, so I won't throw alot of numbers at ya but you get the "picture." 

We'd go to the One hour photo for developing, a bit more pricey but well worth it.  (well, me anyway)...and I knew the owners on first name basis.  the wife loved the pix of my travels, my selfies (just kidding...we never did that back then), and my family stuff.  It seems that on average (not because of skill I say), that 4 of 24 (48...double prints)...turned out well...decent, great.  So I can do the math, but I refuse.  It was alot of moolah.  That's what I worked and lived for..."travel and double prints."  So glad to be in the digital age now, where 200 pix are not even blinkworthy.  I sit in garage and sort the bins now and then.  Looking and tossing the now and then...mostly "then,"  the double prints and tossing unflattering pix, unknown 10-20's of sunsests, and I won't even mention how I went to "tan" next door a few times.  I am perplexed now with current knowledge that I even did that...and I supposedly have..."olive skin."   I have pix of "Big Boned Gal concert in London, a Turkish Pension and poolside Cabo San Lucas"...thank you,  "Rabo" (royal almond body oil)...and  the double prints, thank you tanning God's and my other cousin Kelley.