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In our home there is a very special box.

It’s a large chest made of Silky Oak and over 60 years ago, it was a young girl’s Glory Box.  The young girl was my maternal grandmother and her 4 brothers handcrafted the box for her. For her sweet sixteenth family and friends endowed her with gifts of linen, doilies, tatting, napkins and cutlery – in readiness for the day she off and got married.

I digress (sorry).  The point is that we now have the box at home and we’re creating our own special memories with it.  My children call it the Memory Box.

On purpose it’s well within reach.  In fact, it’s our coffee table.  So lifting the lid and exploring the contents is easy.

Our memory box is our own version of the attic or the basement.  A place where we store snippets of lives racing by so that at any time we can revisit, recall and rejoice.

Inside our memory box you’ll find ultrasounds, baby cards, first locks of hair, 4 tiny pairs of shoes, a plaster cast of a tiny foot, the one dummy that somehow managed to escape the dummy fairy, a selection of each child’s most memorable outfits, a few first drawings and a random assortment of collectibles.

It doesn’t matter what goes in – it’s just about creating a spot where we can either sit as a family and remember (or I can sit on my own and bawl my eyes out for the children that are growing way too fast).

I love that my children respect the contents of our memory box above all else.  It seems that a peace settles over them as they lift the lid and they are enthralled as they look at photos together and recall memories in accordance with the item they are looking at.

If you don’t have a memory box, I urge you to start one today.  You could devote a cardboard box per child, a plastic storage container … whatever.  As long as it becomes the resting place for all things special that will allow you to spend quiet time remembering.

Do you have a tradition of saving special treasures in a special place? What precious memory just popped into your head as you read this?

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  • i so love this idea!! 🙂

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  • I finally decorated the kids boxes & they look great. probably wont take long to fill up though

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  • I have alot of memory boxes. I think i might need to revisit some

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  • I love this idea, the problem is what to keep as everything to do with my kids have special meanings.

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  • I save a lot of special things and so I have a couple of boxes!

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  • I will start on one straight away 🙂 brilliant idea

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  • This is a brilliant idea! I have a couple of different ‘keepsake’ boxes at home, but I think it might be better to consolidate everything into one beautiful treasure chest.

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  • i have something similar ur treasure chest we had for our engagement party is now a memory box with little things like cards, arm bands from hospital, it will ahve baby teeth first hair locks and all little things that mean alot and my whole family will lvoe exploring what great ideas!

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  • Wow that is so awesome 🙂 My baby is 14 months old and I’ve spent the last 14 months saving everything to put in a scrap booking album but I never seem to have the time 🙁 I have kept everything, his lock of hair from his first haircut, every baby shower card, every birth card, every first Christmas and birthday cards. I LOVE the memory box idea SO much and having a lovely wooden chest to keep it all
    In would make it even that much more special 🙂 x

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  • I like to keep their birthday cards & little mementos, so I have just been to officeworks & bought those flat pack filing boxes. once I put them together, i’ll wrap them with fun wrapping paper then put the cards etc in them. something nice for the kids to look back on when they are older (I know I did)

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  • Our time with our babies goes by so fast, I love keeping so many items from their childhood and take soooo many photos, I almost need another house to store it all in, just don’t know how to throw anything away!

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  • In this digital age we tend to commit things to the machine and ultimately cyberspace. How lovely it must be to have tangible memories for your children and I am sure your grandmother would be so pleased!! Won’t it be wonderful for your children to be able to show their offspring precious / funny things from days gone by.

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