A quarter million is still a big number, but I'll admit to my family having 60,000 photos in storage. They're mostly since we started having kids in 2014, which

A quarter million is still a big number, but I'll admit to my family having 60,000 photos in storage. They're mostly since we started having kids in 2014, which works out to 20 per day. Of course, some days we take zero photos, and other days we take a bunch on burst because it's hard to get a photo of four kids with none of them picking their noses, let alone looking at the camera. When we go out somewhere, I don't even think we take a lot of photos compared to most people; we're mostly in the moment and trying to wrangle the kids, and I'm shooting with a $200 Android phone. So I can imagine a family with older kids, that's more into photography and social media, easily accumulating 4x our number. Now, we select less than 10% for a private Flickr album that we actually enjoy looking at and sharing with the grandparents, etc. But so far it's been easier and safer to store the remainder instead of deleting them. I've gotten into trouble before with my wife when I deleted a photo that I thought was crummy, but she loved for some reason. Edited to add: We also photograph all of the kids' artwork as a compromise instead of trying to save all that paper or hang it up somewhere in our house, which would be their preference. Those go into their own albums, which has actually turned out to be pretty neat.