I needed to clean some drawers out because of needed space. Had couple file boxes. Put my sons' names on the boxes. Put photos that concerned them and their girls in to the appropriate boxes. If there were photos of both sons, I put into our box. Filled up pretty quickly. I got some folders I had and did put some of photos in the file folders. I use all archival to protect them. Used coupons. I go through little by little and only do like 10-15 minute purges. I've gotten them pretty organized by just a few minutes at a time. I usually do this maybe on a Saturday morning while watching the quilt/craft shows on PBS. DH hates doing this but I only involve him for very short periods of time. It has made a difference and my drawers are lighter. Point is just purge a few minutes at a time. You'd be surprised how much you get done.