Don't forget to print them if they are important to you, you should enjoy them! If you have a bad habit of never downloading your pictures from your camera, and end up deleting old pictures to make room for just one more, you may be in for big surprise when your card becomes corrupt and you cannot recover any of those photos. Even if you are diligent enough to download them to your CPU, what happens when your teenager downoads a trojan virus that wipes out your hard drive, please back them up. Cheap media is not good either, buy special CD's or DVD's for Archival purposes.

Some tips from Microsoft on your Digital Photos