# Watching a family age over 30 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494 "2009-05-15T04:14:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/1 "2009-05-15T04:14:04Z")
[http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Pic\_Every\_Year\_30\_years\_226\_2007.php](http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Pic_Every_Year_30_years_226_2007.php) I came across this site and one of the pages was a family that evidently took a photo once a year for 30 years. Totally fascinating and I thought I would share it. “Time” is something that has always fascinated me and to see it chronicled like this was intriguing. When my daughter was born I had flirted with the idea of taking her picture every year–alas I did not do it and now I sort of regret it. It would have been a cool gift to give her at say age 21. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/2 "2009-05-15T05:42:30Z")
Cool ! I have done somthing similar just pasting all my old leftover fotos made for bus passess, passports, subscriptions etc on one big page in my scrapbook/photoalbum. Here’s [three pictures of my baby’s first year side by side](http://avanarum.hyves.nl/blog/17644630/Werk_in_uitvoering/34JR/), taken with the baby wedged in the same corner of our couch. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/3 "2009-05-15T06:24:40Z")
Everyone wound up aging pretty well, but man were those some weird looking babies. (In reference to the OP.) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/4 "2009-05-15T07:29:59Z")
Fascinating! But the pictures looked like police mug shots! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/5 "2009-05-15T12:27:45Z")
The '80s were not a good decade for women’s hair. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/6 "2009-05-15T12:32:08Z")
Those can’t be real human beings. They look like claymation pictures. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/7 "2009-05-15T12:37:08Z")
Apparently there are no razors in that family’s house. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/8 "2009-05-15T13:24:30Z")
They all look exactly alike. That’s the most resembling-each-other family I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/9 "2009-05-15T13:37:18Z")
And conga-rats to them for keeping a solid family going for thirty years! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/10 "2009-05-15T13:46:59Z")
I think they cloned those kids… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/11 "2009-05-15T13:56:05Z")
Diego aged about 10 years between '81 and '82. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/12 "2009-05-15T14:40:26Z")
Interesting. We took a specific picture of our son once a week for the first year of his life, but it never occurred to me to do something like that over the course of years/decades. ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/13 "2009-05-15T16:08:39Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Diego aged about 10 years between '81 and '82. well post a pic of yourself after a couple years after having a couple of boys! I know that I aged quite a bit a couple years after my daughter was born. Cut my pony tail off and then the rest of my hair just kept slipping sliding away. Now 14 years later it pretty much is all gone! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/14 "2009-05-15T16:34:36Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Diego aged about 10 years between '81 and '82. He also looks like a favored competitor in a “Richard Dreyfuss Look-Alike Contest”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/15 "2009-05-15T17:16:02Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Here’s [three pictures of my baby’s first year side by side](http://avanarum.hyves.nl/blog/17644630/Werk_in_uitvoering/34JR/), taken with the baby wedged in the same corner of our couch. I’m pretty sure that’s the cutest baby I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/16 "2009-05-15T18:56:15Z")
I wonder if one could print that out and make an odd animation flip book out of it… Pretty cool concept. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/17 "2009-05-15T19:39:38Z")
Mom doesn’t smile much, does she? And by the end, she looks a little ragged. ---
**Author:** ![Teaira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@Teaira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teaira)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/18 "2009-05-15T19:45:37Z")
Mom looks like something from the faces of meth. Although I guess it is 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/19 "2009-05-15T19:53:33Z")
I was thinking she changes hair length/style almost every year. How do you do that without going nuts? -Z, changed hairstyle last year for the first time in over a decade, and it was a decade to the change prior to that too. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/20 "2009-05-15T23:25:32Z")
They seem to have birthed either a trio of criminals or a self-contained boy-band, I can’t decide. But Nicholas and Matias sure look alike. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494.md?page=2)