Organizing photographs and memorabilia may be one of the most rewarding projects! These items usually touch your heart and should be stored in way that shows their importance. Yet, the project is usally years and years overdue and can seem overwhelming. The first step is remove everything from the space! Then sort into piles (i.e. school pictures, sports, vacations, family.) As you decide which items to keep, we do offer a word of advice. Keep those items that truly stir your heart or capture important events, and allow yourself to release the rest. In her book, The Gift of the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh compares our lives to the process of collecting seashells. Imagine that you are exploring the beach, gathering shells along the way. Each time you uncover a shell, you carefully consider its beauty and uniqueness. You decide whether or not it is worth keeping. By carefully choosing which shells to keep, you end up with a small collection of beautiful shells that bring you joy. If you had insisted on keeping every shell, then your beautiful shells would be lost in the mass of other shells.
Albums and scrapbooks are just a few ideas for giving these keepsakes proper homes though this can get expensive. It is just as visually pleasing to put photos and memorabilia in large manilla or white folders, labeled and organized chronologically!
