Where to Save your Baby Keepsakes, Years Later

Where to Save your Baby Keepsakes, Years Later

Don’t just say, “Do you remember…” and then fill in the blank with your memorable story. Get a time capsule to help you tell your story. Pull out those precious, sentimental, or heirloom items from the time capsule, and make your story come alive better with the actual visual.

Her last child left for college this year. As she was cleaning out her daughter’s closet, she had some memorable flashbacks come to mind. She picked up her daughter’s baby shoes shoved in the back of the closet in an old cardboard box. Many times as adults we wish we had those annoying days with our kids back, compared to the silence in our homes now.

She still remembers her pitter pattering feet each morning as she crawled out of bed to come and wake up mommy and daddy to make pancakes for breakfast, so she could have someone turn on her morning cartoons for her.

It is much easier to remember things, when we have the actual heirloom item in our hand. Why did I ever throw her baby shoes in this cardboard box in the first place, for mice and moths to destroy, she asks herself?

What will you keep for your children as they grow older?

What do you think your children will want to keep, to remember what life was like when they grew up? What will they find important to treasure, when they are adults? What an amazing Christmas gift idea, to find out that your parent saved one of your old tea party sets or favorite baby dolls, as you open the present with nostalgic glee.

As the mother finishes going through her daughter’s closet, she has three sorting piles: keep, throw away, and give away. I know you parents have all been there, when cleaning out old rooms. Many times it is so hard to let things go, so our solution for you is to let it go by putting it in a decorative Baby Time Capsule and give it to your grown child. Maybe they will pass it on to their child. That is what makes items, heirlooms over the years.

Some things don’t fit in a scrapbook

What do you do with all those baby firsts items that cannot fit in a scrapbook. Where do you put baby’s first pair of shoes, baby’s first pacifier, baby’s first outfit when he or she came home from the hospital, etc?

The mother in our story was trying to downsize to a smaller house. When younger, her daughter did not want to store all this “stuff.” She does not want her daughter to lose meaning of all this “stuff” and think that it was not important to her as a parent. If you live in an apartment, you understand, it is hard to live on a downsized scale. All her school artwork is rolled up in a box now with bug spots on them and tattered on the edges.  To help you solve the question of what to keep, throw away, or give away, take pictures of most of your child’s artwork then put the photos in a scrapbook to eliminate space in your closet. Make sure to write the date and age of your child on the back of the photo to capture the story better later. You could even make a second copy of the photos to give to your daughter or son in their own Baby Time Capsule. Be a parent that cares, and preserves their artwork of creativity, showing their growth journey as a child.  You can get your own decorative Baby Time Capsule from https://www.timecapsule.com/product/milestone-collection-baby-time-capsule-keepsake-gift/.

What do you do with your own or your child’s sentimental keepsakes? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie

www.timecapsule.com

Notes:

Tea Party Photo taken from: http://www.apa.org/monitor/mar02/pretend.aspx

Baby Shoes Photo taken from: http://galleryhip.com/new-baby-quotes-bible.html