Do you have family photos on display in your home?

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Yes

It's something I've only seen in the movies.

No, I don't do it.

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No. Because I didn't really have a good relationship with my family and I don't like looking at pictures of human beings, even if they are people I am close too.

Pictures of my family would only upset me.
I stick to Monet and Van Gogh.

I mostly have pictures of my niece on display. I have one picture of my family that's on display that was taken at my sister's wedding.

I have a few small photos of close family members on a little shelf in my living room. Nearly all my other pictures on the walls are of my cartoons or other cartoons.

My mother told me just a couple of weeks ago that she is thinking of putting up photos of our family on the walls. She was never into that kind of thing before. My grandmother (on my father's side), however, had many family photos in her own house. Almost every inch of the wall in her own living room, it was amazing.

One photo I have on display is of my brother and I really like it, because in the picture he's actually smiling because I made him laugh. He has rarely smiled for photos. Mom says it's because he's shy.

I have many pictures of my ancestors because I collect antique frames. I display black and white or sepia miniatures of my relatives, going back to my great-grandparents and their siblings. I don't display any colour photos which are just faces, and to be honest I don't recognise anyone by their faces in the photos. I had to rely on what was written on the back of the photos, or by asking my parents and grandparents. I didn't even recognise my grandparents in their wedding portrait from the 1930s.

I have very profound faceblindness. My photos are more about an obsession with ancestry than a desire to see or recognise anyone's face.

I don't have relationships to my family members, so no. But I am not a person who enjoys looking at photos anyway.

My ex-boyfriend had about 20 pictures of his nieces and parents on the fridge. I don't believe he would have even noticed if some pictures were suddenly missing, so the individual pictures didn't add much value, and I didn't understand the point in having them all there. They can also be inconvenient when you wipe the outside surface of the fridge and you have to take them all down first. The sight of clutter plus the (albeit small) inconvenience when cleaning would deter me personally from putting up that many pictures (or any photo at all)... But he must experience joy from the photos, even though he sees his family almost every day and I think that alone would make the pictures superfluous.

Years ago, when my cousin (my mother's niece) had a baby and my mother received photos of the baby, she displayed a photo in the living room. My mother was not particularly close to her niece, so I did not really understand the point in displaying the picture of some baby?

I prefer not to have much unnecessary clutter in my living space. When there is decoration it should be pretty, but for me humans are not especially pretty to look at.

I've occasionally toyed with the idea but only ever bothered with it once, that was a picture of a girlfriend who lived a long way away. Even then I can't say it did me any good, I guess I only put it there because she sent me the picture and on a whim I put it on top of the TV. I've never been one to get much pleasure from looking at people. A long time ago I nearly put a photo of my son and my (then) girlfriend's kids on my desk at work. I felt it was artistically quite a snazzy picture and I guess I wanted to show off my kids and my photographic skills and sense of taste.

Most people's family photos don't look all that great to me, they seem content with amateurish ones or paid-for studio pictures that use stereotyped production values with very little of what I'd call original artistic merit. And I get sick of the schmooze I hear about what lovely-looking families everybody's supposed to have, when most of them don't look all that great if we're honest about it.

One day I hope to put up some good pictures in my home, and they'll include some of family and perhaps friends, but it's one of those luxury tasks that might never get done. I'm a severely practical person and there always seem to be more pressing matters to attend to. Frankly decorations soon become invisible to me once they've been there for more than a few days, and I don't expect I'll ever get the free time to keep swapping them out.