Managing Life & Digital Passwords

How do you keep track of all your accounts and passwords?

I am well-aware that I am not the only person with this problem or question. As I grow socially
online, I create at least three new accounts on different websites each month. Plus, with all the cuts in applications that I have been using for quite a while such as Google Reader and Posterous, I am forced to find new services to create yet another account on. I have so many accounts! How in the world am I supposed to manage it all?

I mean I am one person trying to be a team of social media experts and myself all at the same time and I have come to a conclusion that there is no simple way out then to deal with these accounts I must manage.

If I could show you my list of bookmarks and accounts, you would not be able to sleep at night. Take my word for it. I am slowly becoming an internet account hoarder.

Do you have trouble managing hundreds of accounts at once? Do you have a specific system or place where you store your passwords to be organized? Or do you have someone managing it all for you? (Lucky you!)

Please do comment and let me know how you avoid this insanity.

xoxo,

Organizing Years of Photos

For the past two months I have been wanting to post about how I organized my family's photos in these photo boxes.

4 Words...It took too long!

I organized all the photos from our drawers, ripped family albums, and I even included the photos that somehow always end up on the floor, in between closet space, and what not.

I started off by organizing thousands of photos by year. I thought this way any photo within that year would be easier to find, but because that was just too easy, I decided to organize them by month and by day. It worked out fine from the 1993 photos to the 1998 photos. Then, I realized that all the other photos were dated wrong. Someone always set the camera's date wrong. So I sorted the rest by event and year estimation. TOOK HOURS! Then after 2 weeks of giving a couple hours each day to this project, it was finally done!

This second box, the purple one with polka dots is where all the favorites (in other words, pictures others can see) ended up. Organized by each member of the family. I did the purple box as I was organizing the red box with polka dots using my "system".

After the first couple days, a huge stack of photos still haunted me until I finished organizing. 2 weeks later, I was done. Each day I would spend a couple hours working on it and even took a few days off (It became hard some days).

The finished product made me extremely happy. I was left with the purple polka-dotted box full of our favorite family photos that are approved for guests to go through and the big red polka-dotted box for us to enjoy years from now. All organized and safe from damage.

Now to avoid having to go through this in the years to come, I'm thinking family yearbooks that I want to work with my Mom to put together will showcase and replace all these photographs. Plus, our digital photos won't go to waste. Shutterfly & Snapfish are going to be a huge help on this!
xoxo,