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Designing a Scrapbook is a Great Way to Commemorate Your Memories

Most of us have beat up cardboard boxes or plastic bins brimming with pictures from the years of our lives. The most organized among us have managed to sort the boxes into various years or decades, and some order can be determined. Amid 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. It would take days to sort through the boxes trying to order the material, making sense of everything, but without success. Chances are there are photos of people they will not recognize, some events cannot be recalled, and questions about why certain items were saved and others were not. Maybe you have saved all of your graduation cards but not birthday or anniversary greetings. Maybe you kept the ticket stub from the first baseball game you ever attended, but did not save a wedding program. Your kids and grandkids will appreciate 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 can be a lot of fun and it organizes your memories before it is too late.

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 their favorite so far. 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 label the people in each picture. 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 not capture the interest of surly teenage grandchildren. However, a few decades into the future they will be fascinated with the time and effort put into chronically their family history. You can make books for everyone in the family that are personalized for each of them, 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 notecards, 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.

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