Where do you store your old photos?
Do you have a Memory Box?
Today I'm writing about something that is important to me and probably to everyone.
Old photos and other items can bring back happy memories and can be something we treasure for a long number of years.
PHOTOS
Many years ago I started scanning negatives of old photos and when I don't have the negative of the photo I can scan the actual photo itself.
For this job 3 items are important:
For this job 3 items are important:
1. Negative Scanner to scan the negatives
2. Computer to scan photos when I don't have the negatives
I'm also planning to use this to scan my wedding photos from 47 years ago
3. External Hard disc drive to store the digital photos.
I will store them on my computer but I also want to have them in a second location in case anything happens to my computer because I don't want to lose these photos.
A third location will be in the cloud.
But we must not forget that the original photos should be taken care of as well
So we still need all our photo albums and boxes to store and organise those.
But what about other Memories?
That is another thing for my ToDo List - Transfer our recordings from cassette & CD to MP3s
Fred & I have also made many sing-a-long videos of Kids Songs (some I have written and others we have know for years) for our grandkids as memories of us and of their childhood growing up with us always singing and then of course we have been able to use them for Sunday School work.
These are stored on Fred's YouTube Channel
Playlist
2. You may have large special pictures framed so they need to go on the wall
Like the picture of the last home we had in Londonderry - a house we designed ourselves - with the 3 kids out washing the car.
4. You may have certificates of achievements, or other things on sheets of paper
They will need to be filed away to be kept safely.
For this type of item you need a large glass cabinet or some type of stand because you don't want it to be hidden away, you want it to be on display and kept safely. We have not done as we would advise with this object.
6. What about the smaller objects that bring back happy memories - small sporting trophies, small souvenirs from trips abroad or perhaps like me you have a few things that belonged to grandparents or parents who are no longer with us.
7. If you have old letters you want to keep then you will need a box or some type of storage where the pages will be kept flat and not get crumpled.
I use my stationery box for my old letters because of its vertical sections.
9. You may have smaller objects like tickets or postcards or newspaper clippings etc. that you need to keep in a Memory Box.
I have three Memory boxes in use and full already
my wooden one with the kind of tapestry inserts,
and my wooden case type box with its metal handle.
Like the picture of the last home we had in Londonderry - a house we designed ourselves - with the 3 kids out washing the car.
3. You may have stickers on a suitcase - reminders of good holidays and places you have travelled to.
4. You may have certificates of achievements, or other things on sheets of paper
They will need to be filed away to be kept safely.
5. You may have large hard to store items like my Nephew Lee who carried the torch in his hometown for the London Olympics. I wrote more about that in Olympic Torch Run
Or my husbands Didgeridoo which he brought back from our Anniversary trip to Australia.
(You can see it propped up against the roll-top desk in the picture above.)
For this type of item you need a large glass cabinet or some type of stand because you don't want it to be hidden away, you want it to be on display and kept safely. We have not done as we would advise with this object.
6. What about the smaller objects that bring back happy memories - small sporting trophies, small souvenirs from trips abroad or perhaps like me you have a few things that belonged to grandparents or parents who are no longer with us.
These types of things decorate my Study shelves and the grandkids often ask questions about them.
7. If you have old letters you want to keep then you will need a box or some type of storage where the pages will be kept flat and not get crumpled.
I use my stationery box for my old letters because of its vertical sections.
8. You may also be like me and like to keep cards your family have given you over the years and this is a box I got because it had butterflies on it and I Love Butterflies but also because it has separators inside (was meant for recipe cards I think) and it is ideal for cards.
9. You may have smaller objects like tickets or postcards or newspaper clippings etc. that you need to keep in a Memory Box.
I have three Memory boxes in use and full already
my wooden Ark decorated one - I wrote about my love of all things Ark in I Love Arks
my wooden one with the kind of tapestry inserts,
and my wooden case type box with its metal handle.
10. Some of those things that cause our sweet memories could go in scrapbooks and I have already done this for one topic and do intend to make more scrapbooks of specific times (both in actual solid scrapbooks and digitally) but that will take up more time later.
BUT
WHAT ABOUT THOSE MEMORIES FOR WHICH WE HAVE NO PHYSICAL OBJECT TO KEEP?
We can keep a notebook as a journal of the things we do as often as we wish, or the things our children are doing, or now the grandkids.
For example I wish I had thought to write down somewhere the date of the day I became a Christian because I was young then and don't remember exactly what age I was.
Nowadays I would write important things like that in my journal and then always be able to look back in that collection of books to refresh my memory as I did for our years in America and our years in Belgium and now have recently started again.
Some day I will have all my memories completely neatly sorted into all these places.
Where do you keep your memories?
