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Graduation Photos

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BlueBelle Tue 25-May-21 15:31:22

There is no set time/age and no one can decide for you
It is for you to look at and as far as I know no one has ever defined a rule of say ‘at the age of 30 you take down all adult children’s photos’ Some people will keep them up a year or two some will keep them for ever and some will never put them up totally personally to you and your husband
No one can advise you

Calendargirl Tue 25-May-21 15:11:29

Peasblossom

It’s supposed to be bad Feng shui to have photos of the past prominently on display. It drains your forward energy.

Why not have some happy photos of the people they are now?

We have a couple of our wedding photos on the wall in the hall, almost 49 years old.

Don’t know about draining forward energy! I just like to glance at our 19 and 21 year old faces, and fondly imagine that’s how we still look!

Chestnut Tue 25-May-21 14:43:33

I don't have the graduation photos in a frame because they're a bit boring to look at after 20 years. I'd rather have family pictures which have some colour or laughter in them.

Peasblossom Tue 25-May-21 14:42:41

It’s supposed to be bad Feng shui to have photos of the past prominently on display. It drains your forward energy.

Why not have some happy photos of the people they are now?

Ilovecheese Tue 25-May-21 14:41:31

We've still got a couple of ours up with children now in their forties, but they are just on the wall on the landing so not prominent or in the way. Not all our children went to their ceremonies so we never had them all up or in any sort of pride of place.
Maybe start to relegate yours gradually, out of the main room, into the hall, up the stairs etc......

silverlining48 Tue 25-May-21 14:37:23

I put our now 40 something dds grad photos in much smaller frames and moved them upstairs on the landing ( where no one sees them ).

Doodledog Tue 25-May-21 14:36:49

Are they there because you like looking at them, or because you are 'displaying' them for others to see?

If you like them, leave them where they are, and if not, take them down. My MIL has a photo of us on our wedding day (40 years ago) on her mantelpiece, but the only family photo I have is a small framed one of my children when they were 2 and 4 years old. Each to her own,

Lucca Tue 25-May-21 14:35:04

Do you like the photos ? If not specially then you don’t have to !

teachkate Tue 25-May-21 14:33:57

When to you think it’s ok to stop displaying your children’s graduation photos? Our adult children are now 40,38 & 35.
We’re redoing our house & I’m wondering is this now the time to leave them down? ? ?