I'm in the process of doing the same thing...I'm not into scrap booking or that kind of stuff either. I bought a few already decorated photo boxes...I think I got them at Target...and then started sorting through my photos. First I got over saving every one I had...I only kept the pictures I loved...Found I had many duplicate or near duplicate pictures so the extras were pitched. Then I discovered many pictures that either didn't have any meaning to me, or I couldn't figure out why I took them in the first place. I didn't even try to organize my "keepers" at that point.
I did this over a weekend while watching tv...Then I started working on the Keeper pile. I only did one category at a time...for example: Pictures of my son. After I weeded him out of the stack, I put his pictures in numerical (age) order. Then I placed his stack in my photo box...glorified shoe box if you ask me
Next I made a divider with the word "ME" on it, put it behind my son's stack, made a stack of pictures of just me, put them in numerical order, and them behind the divider in the box. I worked my way through all my pictures with no stress. At last count I have 14 categories including.. Misc..and the entire collections of pictures only take up 1.5 boxes.
As for my digital pictures...I am in the process of deleting every one I don't LOVE...and find I'm only keeping 1 out of every 8 or so I took. I worked an hour on my digital pictures this weekend and deleted at least 2/3 of what I had taken. While my DS was here over the holidays, I took very few pictures...trying to stay decluttered in my mind. While at Wally World, I took in my card and had prints made...5 of them...and then put them in my photo box.
The hardest part of this process was deciding WHY I needed all these photos...I mean how much time do I really spend looking at them after all??? Once I got it in my mind that it was OK not keep all the pictures I had taken, the rest became much easier.
Sometimes when I pull out my camera to take a picture of something, my son just looks at me and say...Mom, just take a mental picture instead. He might be on to something.