Preserving Best Friend Memories

Preserving best friend memories can be one of the most rewarding things you do in life. When you have something special to hold and look back at old photos, it helps you remember the good old times. Reminiscing about the times when you were young and old together as best friends, can be priceless.

There are certain friends you do not have to talk to for a long time, then when you pick up the phone and call, or meet, it is like you start the conversation right where you left off last time you were together. Some friends may have drifted off in your life, but I am sure if you opened an old cardboard box or file in your home, you may find old photos or crafts you made together.

Best Friend Memories and Mementos to Save

Maybe you made Christmas decorations or other fun DIY projects together that you have saved. As your own child is growing up, make sure to save significant items from their best friend play dates, special outings, or other memorabilia.

It is so much fun to look back and see how much you or your child has grown, what all you have done with your best friend, and how they have impacted your life.

• Yearbook
• Restaurant receipts
• Movie tickets
• Friendship bracelets
• Photos of all kinds and places you have been together.
• Old school papers or letters written to each other.
• Your bucket lists.
• Team shirts or other clothing you shared as best friends.
• List of favorite songs you liked to listen to together.
• List of favorite stores you liked to shop.
• Save your favorite books you read.
• Write down and save your recipes you made and ate together.
• Sand from a vacation you took together.

Places to Save your Best Friend Memories

Of course, with almost everything being online now, you can save your photos to many places on the internet, in a Google Dropbox, or on social media pages to share with your best friends. You can also save your picture memories in a photo album or scrapbook. For more tangible items that will not save online or fit in a book, you can use a special cardboard box. We recommend you use something a little better so moths and mice do not destroy your sentimental items.

Try using a plastic, metal, tin, or other sturdy container. A real fun way of preserving best friend memories includes making a Best Friend Time Capsule. Have a fun party with your best friends over and celebrate filling your Best Friend Time Capsule with these and other special memories and other nostalgic items. Using the “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule, you can decorate the outside of the time with any scrapbook type background, or add your own photos to the outside. You can also write  anything on the outside, using markers, or put any artistic design on it making it look nice. Celebrate your best friend relationship with fun scrapbook type embellishments on the outside too. Include fun stickers, ribbons, or other items attached to the outside of the DIY Time Capsule.

Be a part of history, and make your own Best Friend Time Capsule today to preserve your memories from this year. Then, choose a date to open your time capsule, like 20 or 30 years from now. What a fun day that will be when you get to open your Best Friend Time Capsule and reminisce about what life was like when you filled it. Have fun filling out the “Message to the Future” letter, making predictions about what you think you and your best friend’s life will look like in the future. When you open the time capsule again, I wonder if your predictions will come true.

So, how are you planning on preserving best friend memories? What would you recommend saving in a Best Friend Time Capsule? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie