Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art that organizes homes for energy or Chi. It creates positive living spaces. Americans’ stuff-everything-in-somewhere tactic leads to stress and lost objects.

It doesn’t take stress to de-stress homes. Americans can address one small problem at a time. For example, donating clothes that have been outgrown to children or throwing away old magazines. This will help make their homes feel less like disaster zones and more like peaceful spaces.

The accumulation of paper photographs can lead to clutter and disruption in Chi. American homes have over 10,000 photos, slides and negatives.

Many family memories are stuffed in closets or spare corners. This can cause damage to them from temperature changes and humidity. There is no way anyone wants to dig through shoeboxes full of hundreds of photos just to find one photograph of Grandpa fishin’.

People aren’t able to discard their photographs without thinking. They record events, vacations and the first day of school. However, no one will ever look at photos stored in attics.

Here’s how to solve it. The solution? Americans can convert their photos into digital formats. Instead of years of photos stuffed in basements, closets, attics and attics for decades, these same photographs can be converted into digital formats that fit on a desk or bookcase.

“Digitizing photos is a great way to get rid of unnecessary clutter while protecting those memories from fading and deterioration. It allows people to access and share their photos easily while creating a much more organized environment for themselves,”Danielle Liu is a Certified Professional Organizer and president of Oregon Chapter of National Association of Professional Organizers.

ScanCafe is one service.www.scancafe.com), scans photographs, slides and negatives into high-resolution digital images.

ScanCafe is in tune with Feng Shui. It takes the stress out of digitizing old images. Customers can upload their entire archive to be scanned without spending hours sorting them. Customers can review and securely discard any photographs that they do not wish to keep after scanning has been completed.

ScanCafe will return to customers both DVDs that contain their new scans and original photographs. Customers can also access the secure online gallery to view the scanned images and share them with their friends or family. People can return their slides and bulky photos, but they will still have the valuable digital images. This saves both space and mental health.