Do your parents/IL's do this? re: school pictures

FloF9

School pictures were back at the beginning of December. We bought the school pictures and gave the 8X10's to my parents and to my IL's this time around.  When we went to visit my in-laws just last weekend I saw the said picture of the twins on their nightstand.  I was surprised that after 2 months they hadn't bought a frame. 

I went to visit my parents last night and also saw that they too had the picture on the kitchen table - no frame.  I go to Walmart/Target and frame are usually under $10 unless they're the really really fancy ones.

Were we supposed to buy these frames for them? 

joseysbride

I got mine a frame a couple of years ago and then they just keep replacing the old photos with the new.

katie277s

I buy frames occasionally, but my parents are good about framing pictures.  My IL's on the other hand, have a hard time remembering to take the pictures with them from my house, let alone framing them for display. 

EastCoastBride

I don't see this as a parent/IL thing or a school picture thing.  I just see it that neither of them have thought to buy a frame - for whatever reason. 

Quite honestly, I don't like most school pictures. I always feel that they look forced and the kids look uncomfortable.  I look back at my own school pictures - blech.  They really aren't pictures that I'd necessarily want to frame and put on display.  I expect to have many other natural pictures of DS that are far cuter that I'd want to display. 

Temp970088312507122

I do that. I always mean to buy a frame and forget. I needed to buy a new frame for my niece's picture and it took me about 2 months to actually remember.

Ilumine

Did they specifically ask for these particular pictures? Because they may not want to put them up, depending on a variety of things, from size to composition to color scheme. Personally, I hate posed pictures like this. I would never hang them. But give me a beautiful action shot and I am all over it.

marchbaby

I don't usually buy frames b/c its so hard to know where the recipient would want to hang it, the color/design etc. My parents are better about displaying pictures, though it often takes a month or two for them to find the frame etc. 

I haven't been to my mother in laws in a few years, but last time I was there I told my husband i'm not buying her copies of pics anymore since her house was full of pics of her neighbors grandchildren and she only had one pic of my son hanging on the fridge.  Coincidentally (not) it was the picture she told me I looked horrible in (the night my son was born, after two months of bedrest, two weeks in the hospital and a c section), of course she'd display that one!  I wanted to take it with me, my husband wouldn't let me, ha.

jlw2505

Both my parents and my ILs have a frame for the pictures and when I give them a new one, they just switch it out.  My mom has 5x7 pics of all the grandkids up on the wall and my ILs have theirs on a table in the upstairs hallway (can't recall the size either 5x7 or 8x10).  I didn't buy the frames for them but I know in the past when we gave them pictures, we have from time to time given them frames - ones that say grandparents or something cheesy like that.

Zenya

I wouldn't EXPECT anyone to frame/display a school picture.  I don't even frame them.  

CleoKitty

I don't bother giving my mother photos- she wouldn't care about them one way or the other.

If I give photos to my MIL or my grandma I generally see them sitting in a pile somewhere or maybe on the refrigerator hanging under a magnet. Fine by me. I mean, my grandma has roughly 20 grandkids and about a dozen great-grandkids by now. It would be ridiculous to expect her to hang and display every kid's photos, but she still enjoys receiving them. 

And FWIW, I have never once framed/displayed a photo of any of my nieces, nephews, cousin's babies, etc. I get them, maybe hang them on the fridge for a while and eventually they end up being tossed into the big box of photos that I keep swearing I'm going to organize some day...