To Pay or Not To Pay

I have a dilemma! And this time it does not involve ice cream!!!

My flickr page is once again getting near to full and i am thinking that if i have to perform a cull on the photos every couple of months that is going to be a bit of a drag!!! Plus there are soooooo many drop-dead cute photos of our boy - how do i choose the ones to get rid of?

So not even two months since my last cull i am at the point again that i either need to do ANOTHER cull or start paying for the privilege of sharing photos.

Though i must admit the whole happy snapping has decreased since our boy has past the six month, it has not stopped, and i hope it never will!!!

So if i continue to use the site free of charge i can only have a maximum of 200 photos up at any time and the size and quality of the photos are that of the sites choice, and i can only upload a maximum of 100 MB a month. If i pay, i can have an unlimited amount of photos, the size and quality is that of the original, and i would get unlimited uploads.

Plus there is the whole 'off-site' storage thing to consider. Living in the digital age that we do, if we were to have a major computer melt down in this house (or even worse thing to think a house fire - not that is that is being planned!!!), we would loose a great deal of our pictorial memories!!! We do our best to always have a back-up (or three) of all our photos at any given time, but a disaster is something that you can not really plan for or prevent. So the flickr account could also act as that 'worst case scenario' back-up for us.

Of course there is not every photo ever taken of the boy on flickr, seeing as there are literally over a thousand photos on my computer hard drive - and M34tb4LL would easily have four times that amount on his. So if the best and cutes are also somewhere else if the unforeseeable were to happen, not all would be lost.

So... have i just talked myself into upgrading the flickr account? If so i need to do it soon or i will have to cull the photos that are currently there again!!

WOW, all that thinking has done my head right in, i think i need to get some ice cream.

(: G