I have divided my pictures up by years and each container I label it with the year and put that years pics I there! ( if there are more for the same year I use another one and just label it according. Then when I am ready to scrapbook them. I pull the one labeled 1998 or what ever  year I want to work on. It keeps them organized by years!

Pros: It keeps my pics all together but yet separated by the year!