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How do you organize your cherished momentos?
Old greeting cards, baby shoes, movie tickets...I have several large totes of this stuff! We have a 10 year-old so most of it's from her growing up but I know I keep too much. I'll be sorting it all soon in an effort to thin it out. I'd also love to be able to display/catalog and enjoy some of it but don't really know where to start. Seems like a hugely overwhelming project.
Any ideas on how to sort, organize and display my momentos?
Re: How do you organize your cherished momentos?
I have a trunk that I keep things like my grandmother's embroidered pillow cases, glass objects that I am not displaying, etc. Every once and awhile I look through it to see if there's any thing I want to display...usually on a shelf or bookcase.
You could also do scrap books with the paper stuff, then they can be displayed on a shelf. You could also put them in pretty boxes and put the boxes on a shelf or make shadow boxes.
This is what I do with our paper things- movie tickets, etc. Other things I have stored in a tote in the basement.
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I keep mason jars with mementos from our vacations: http://ourhumbleabowed.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/young-house-love-inspiration/
You could alter this idea and have one jar per year of life and keep the important, smaller items inside.