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Making a Scrapbook is a Great Way to Share Your Memories
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Most of us have shoe boxes or plastic bins brimming with pictures from the years of our lives. If we are lucky, we have managed to sort the boxes into various years or decades, and there is some semblance of order to these memories. Mixed in with the photos may be ticket stubs, greeting cards, and various trinkets that we want to remember but we are not quite shore how to organize. Imagine your children having to wade through it once you are gone. They would spend days sorting through the boxes trying to order the material, piecing together a life they want to understand, but without success. Chances are some photos are unrecognizable, curious pictures of events they do not recall, and questions about why certain items were saved and others were not. Maybe you stored graduation cards but none from birthdays or anniversaries. Maybe there are ticket stubs from concerts, but you did not save a wedding program. Your kids and grandkids will understand why you chose certain items. A scrapbook is a great way to help them understand once you are no longer here to explain it. Compiling one now is a gift to future generations.
You may want to ask your children or grandchildren for assistance. By creating a scrapbook, they can read about stories in years to come. Maybe last Christmas was the best ever for your six year old granddaughter. She can tell you the story, you can record it besides the family Christmas photos, and 20 years from now she will remember the day as told in her own words.
You can begin your scrapbook collection back before you had children and grandchildren. Start with your earliest photos and each person. You can include stories about your relationship with each person, or include a message directly from them if you still speak to them. Future generations will appreciate the effort you made to inform them and share their heritage with them. There may be forgotten stories now, or these stories may bore surly teenage grandchildren. However, a few decades fromnow they will love to learn about your past and their heritage. You can create a scrapbook for each member of the family so they can share them and piece together their common history, or you can create all-encompassing books with copied photos. Remember to include tickets, brochures or other items in addition to photos in the book. Different items such as scraps of paper, swatches of fabric, important documents and family recipes all make great additions to traditional scrapbooks. Your relatives will love having such a detailed piece of their heritage.
Tags: graduation cards, greeting cards
