What I envision at the end of the project is for the mementos that I care about to be on display or easily accessible. I will also journal the memories that I have and don't want to forget.
My Memories Project will have eleven 5-week projects. The first step is to take an inventory of my keepsakes and organize them so that everything with a similar theme is together.
Most of my paper mementos are in boxes and folders.
While going through the boxes and folders, it's important to see what items are memorable and worth keeping. By decluttering first, there will be less to deal with during the project and it will be easier to recognize what is most important.
Once I have a clearer idea of what is important and worth keeping, I will divide them into 10 categories to be tackled in ten 5-week projects.
I grew up keeping a LOT of papers and mementos related to multiple themes like travel, school, childhood, sports, family, friends, events, correspondence, gifts, etc.
I need to look at what I have and organize what goes together. In my childhood box, for example, there are travel mementos, correspondence, sports, events, newspaper clippings and school.
Upon initial reflection, some categories seem easy to choose. For example childhood, travel, concerts, sports, photos and videos seem obvious choices for me but we'll see if these are the categories I choose.
Do I want to organize chronologically or by theme? For example, do childhood trip mementos go with childhood mementos or travel mementos? Do sports and music trophies go together with ribbons and certificates? Or do I separate them by theme; putting sports trophies with sports mementos and music trophies with music keepsakes?
Do I want to organize by type of memento? For example do concert t-shirts go with clothing or concert mementos? Do postcards all go together or do trip postcards go with trips and art galleries postcards with art?
Do I want to organize by type of project? For example do I have a category for things to frame and choose framing as a project category or do I leave those mementos in their category like travel, sports or photos?
Which items bring back the happiest memories? Which ones do I want to see every day? Which ones are beautiful that I would want displayed in a main area of our house and which ones are more personal?
These are the types of questions I will be asking as I go through my boxes and folders and begin my Revive55 Memories Project.
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