Organized Scrapbooks

Making and keeping organized scrapbooks is really easy. It is one of the best ways to remember your fun times and experiences. I am usually telling you to throw everything away. But in this case, I am not. Those little scraps are good reminders of what you have done with your life. I like to think of them as life.

Here are the scrapbooks I have now:

1) A scrapbook for my daughter.

2) A scrapbook for my son.

3) A scrapbook for me.

4) A scrapbook of my traveling.

I did have a scrapbook from my high school football days. I ended up throwing this out by mistake. This is one of the few things I threw away in my life that I really wish I still had.

The organized scrapbooks that I keep for my daughter, son and me are just 3 ring binders. I have heavy colored paper in each one. I just tape the scraps on each page. I may make a note of the date and jot a few other reminders. But often, I don't. The scrap is the reminder.

The scrapbook for traveling is an actual travel book I bought. It has spaces for making detailed notes. I fill in quite a bit of the spaces after my trips. I also tape things into this book. I make it my own. I tape in maps, brochures and pictures. I want to have some things to jog my memory years later.

I used to keep all my ticket stubs to ball games, wedding programs and programs to concerts in a manila file. But then I thought, I have scrapbooks for my kids, why don't I just do the same thing for me?

A scrapbook is better in a book or binder than in a file because you actually will look at it or read it like a book. Files are really just storing papers for awhile until you throw them away. Books you keep to read and refer to until they are no longer of any use to you. Some books you may keep forever, like a scrapbook.

I just have my scrapbooks on a shelf. They don't take up much room.

I don't make a big production out of putting things in the scrapbook. I just put stuff in right away after the event. It only takes a few seconds to grab the scrapbook, tape the scraps in and then put the book back on the shelf. Since the scrap is from something that just happened there is not much point in studying the scrap. It is for looking at later. It is for the fun of remembering things you did and experiences you had. It is storage of your memories.

Maybe I would get into more elaborate scrapbooking someday if I had a little more time, money or the inclination. I think for now I just want to save the scraps in organized scrapbooks this way now. I can always upgrade later.

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