#Memory box full

I advise getting a largeish box – whatever style you prefer (I actually use a plastic box with a lid as my memory box is kept in the garage so then everything is protected from water, damp, mice etc.!) and, as with everything else in your home – start a one in one out policy. The trick is to keep to one box per person in the family – and continue over the years to curate it so that only the memories that are truly important to you are kept. If you end up with something that’s too big then you’ll never want to take it out and look at it – and it will become one of the clutter hot spots in your home – the LAST thing we want to achieve! Setting a limit to the amount of “stuff” you keep is vital to making a memory box a worthwhile possession for you. There is a whole other genre of information that we produce on a daily basis that we want to be able to sort through, and curate, so that we can keep the things that are really sentimental and important – so that we can enjoy them again and again…. Now, with important information you will be starting to get into the habit of keeping it in your Home File or Diary – for easy access when you need it, but with the other bits and pieces – memories, funny sayings, special moments etc… – that’s a whole other story. Just as with a filing cabinet that isn’t organised well, whats the likelihood that you will be able to access all this information again? Pretty low. Think of your head as a filing cabinet where all your information is filed as you get it each day – pushing the previous information further and further back. It’s a case of what’s happening in the here and now has to take priority in your mind and therefore all other bits that aren’t critical are lost – sometimes forever. I forget things – very quickly! – we all do really. Trouble is – my head just isn’t the best place to ensure these memories are kept.

#Memory box full

There are already things that have faded in my mind as it gets full of even more memories as time goes on – and I don’t want them to fade at all. I want to remember what we did together, any funny things that happened, any developmental steps – and it’s the same for my life – it’s so nice to be able to look back over what has happened over the past years and reminisce. I can’t believe my daughter is almost 8 – it doesn’t seem possible! Although I have of course been making the most of the time with her as much as possible, enjoying ourselves and creating memories, these memories may unfortunately end up forgotten amidst the rush of life in general. What would be great is to be able to capture all the memories that are important to us in an easy way – so that in years to come we can look back and smile at all the little, and big, things that have happened. The problem is that all too often we forget a lot of the smaller memories – the ones from day to day life – and instead only really see the highlights in our minds – highlights usually helped along by photos of events and holidays etc…