How Do You Create A Family Album From Unorganized Boxes Of Memorabilia?
Look at a pile of boxes with family memorabilia. It’s a temptation to throw it all out, but you know there are irreplaceable family memories there. You have to do something with the unorganized pile of stuff. Still, it’s hard to know where to start. In various boxes and drawers, you find pictures, old cards, stock certificates, notes and letters. What to do with it all? Systematically you can organize what is there and create a sense of family and memory that generations to come will appreciate. Accept that it’s disorganized and get over it! Get several small boxes or files. Find a comfortable place to have a box of the unorganized stuff nearby as well as the empty boxes or files. (You can do this while watching television). The writer had a box for everything about her parents before they were married and another box for everything about her husband’s parents. The next box started when her parents were married. There were more boxes for when all her siblings became adults. If they wer
