Storing exposed polaroids

[bert26]

I plan on keeping my exposed polaroids in the polaroid specific print file sleeves but I read on the polaroid site that after a polaroid is exposed, it needs to "breathe" for a month before storing. If that's the case, do you just keep them stacked up on your desk for a month before storing?? And each sleeve can fit 8 polaroids if you put them front to back but am wondering if it's smarter to only do 4 per page? Over a long period of time like several years, will the backs of the polaroids stacked on each other cause any issues? Thanks

 

[Godfrey]

I sit my Polaroids out on a shelf, typically for a few months at a time, until I set up and do a scanning session (actually copy-camera digitization). Once scanned, I've been storing them in Polaroid Print Boxes (40 per box) that I bought from Polaroid Originals, but it seems that they're now discontinued.

Unfortunate: I've only got two empties left...

I don't know about using print file sleeves.

G

 

[Pál_K]

Although I hadn't heard about the Polaroids needing to "breathe", I'm lucky in that my habits allow them to do that.

Are we speaking of "Polaroid Originals"?

Anyway, whether the real Polaroids of decades past, Polaroid Originals, Fuji pack film, or Fuji Instax, what I do with these after making the photos is put them on a counter for quite a while to gaze at occasionally, Then, probably months later, I'll take the stack and put them in an album. "Rejects" go into a shoebox - although sometimes I find a rejected photo that I now really like and it goes into an album as well.

 

[bert26]

I'm not sure, I'm using a Polaroid Spirit 600 with the 600 film. Im just placing them back in the empty film boxes they came in and letting them chill for a month until sleeving them, I guess.