How can I organize my child's keepsakes?
Children's keepsakes are always a little hard to organize because there's so much to keep. I come across parents who a lot of times want to keep everything - every adorable outfit their children wore. It's all just amazing, but it gets to be a lot of stuff. I try to recommend a couple of things. Get yourself a bin. If you really want to keep things from every year of your child's life, then get a size bin that you feel would be appropriate for that, and just put things in there. You're going to store those things, label the outside of the bin. Tomorrow you're one through two, and store that up in your attic, your storage space, whatever you have, because you're not going to really access that. Make sure that you're storing it properly. Make sure you're storing it with some cedar balls, or some moth balls, and make sure that everything has been laundered before you put it in there so that you don't have any food stains or anything that's going to mold or mildew or have anything like that happen to it. If it's artwork, get flat containers that you can put it in. Label everything. Try to keep an inventory of what you have up there that you're storing, so that you know that if you did want to go back and try to find the tooth that fell out, you can do that. You can do that for every year, or you can have one bin for the first five years. It really depends on how much you want to hold onto. Another great thing, if you have time, is to scrapbook. It's huge right now, scrapbooking. There are people doing it all over and it's become really amazing. There are so many things out there that you can buy. It's also great if you can scrapbook certain things, then you also have mementos in there in a book form and it's just fantastic. You can scrapbook everything from fabric pieces from favorite items of clothing, to hair, to photographs.
