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What do you do with your old keepsakes?
What do you do with your old mementos and keepsakes like yearbooks, old note books, and old school stuff you hung onto? We moved a few months ago, and it's just been in storage in a box but I was curious what others have done with theirs.
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Miles (6 year old Maine C00n mix), Boots (5 year old Lab mix), Darla (4 year old GSD/Collie mix), Frankie (1.5 year old DSH mix), Peanut (15 months old - 09/11), and Bean (arriving Feb 2013).
Miles (6 year old Maine C00n mix), Boots (5 year old Lab mix), Darla (4 year old GSD/Collie mix), Frankie (1.5 year old DSH mix), Peanut (15 months old - 09/11), and Bean (arriving Feb 2013).
Re: What do you do with your old keepsakes?
I am one of those nut jobs that gets rid of everything.
However, the special things that I do keep, like stuff from our wedding, baby keepsakes, the children's school stuff, I get some stackable containers and put stuff in there. I either put them on the top shelf of the closet or in my husband's workshop.
My mom did something fun with my old drawings from elementary school - she copied them onto iron-on paper and made quilt out of them. For certain things, I take a photo - then I don't have to keep the item. Most of the things I keep I set out - I have a small glass curio cabinet/shelf or my china cabinet where I display things like our wedding cake topper, etc.
For like yearbooks and my old prom corsage and whatnot I have them in a rubbermaid tote in our garage. And I never look in it because it's out there...so I wonder why I keep it at all. I like the idea the pp had about limiting the items to what will fit in one bin.
Thanks everyone for the info
I'm thinking I just need to transfer mine to a rubbermaid bin too and not let it grow anymore. I did the photo thing and took quite a few pictures. I just need to scrapbook them.
Miles (6 year old Maine C00n mix), Boots (5 year old Lab mix), Darla (4 year old GSD/Collie mix), Frankie (1.5 year old DSH mix), Peanut (15 months old - 09/11), and Bean (arriving Feb 2013).
I love this idea! This is an idea I'm going to store in the back of my mind for my future hypothetical children
BFP 11.8.12 * EDD 7.17.13 * MC 12.20.12
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!
haha. I bet your future hypothetical children will love it just as much as I did.
Cool Idea! We just moved. I think I will do this!
I shredded all but the most important things. I created a shadow box for a couple of swimming medals and my life guard whistle. On the back of the box is a photocopy of a great picture of my on my own life guard tower. My husband thinks my 16 year old self is a knockout too.
If only I had my 40 year old confidence in that 16 year old body....
I have had a "memory box" since I was a baby! I just moved everything to a old fashioned steamer trunk & included some more items I wasn't quite willing to part w/ yet. H just started a "memory box" this week at my suggestion b/c he didn't know what to do w/ certain things he wanted to keep.
I also have a medium size fabric box for our wedding keepsakes that we keep in our bedroom. And a small decorative box that holds my parents' & grandma's sympathy cards/obits/etc.
Flowers or Paper objects that are hard to part with you can get jewelry made out of them! I have a friend who just started a business who can make earings, necklaces, beads that can fit your charm bracelets, key chains and more out of your dried flowers or old papers such as invitations, programs, etc. They turn out really pretty. She has a link on Facebook: Memory Beads
Price if very affordable too!!!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Memory-Beads/308513580077