137 - Share Your Memories This Holiday Season
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When your family gathers together for the holidays this year, bring out your memory boxes!
Organizing old family memories, treasures, photos, and memorabilia is time-consuming and hard emotional work. Why not involve the whole family this year and conquer a few boxes at the same time.
- Pull out all the photos.
Grab a few boxes of photos and let you family enjoy them, unorganized and all. Enjoy sharing stories and reminiscing about old times.
Use a photo-safe pen for family members to label who is in the picture on the back.
Let your family pitch duplicates, blurry pictures, pictures of landscapes, and other unnecessary photos.
Ask a teenager to scan the best photos and share them with the family.
Let your family members take the photos home!
- Record the stories.
You can make a video or audio recording of your family’s memories, but I like good old fashioned oral tradition as well.
Share stories, let the grandchildren overhear, and laugh until you cry.
Hearing the stories of your family’s history is powerful.
- Pull out childhood memories from the attic and storage room with your adult children.
Bring up a few boxes of your adult child’s childhood memories to reminisce and go through in the family room. Share the memories and either declutter the items or send them home with your child. J
If you are the child, go grab a few of those boxes on your next visit home.
- Play old home movies on the TV.
Fire up the old VHS or movie reel player and enjoy watching past holidays, babies take their first steps and ride their bikes.
Memories are meant to be shared and enjoyed. Enjoy yours with your families this holiday!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional |
| 0:07.4 | organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home |
| 0:12.1 | organized and help you organize life stages and |
| 0:15.8 | unexpected events. So sit back, relax, and let's get organized. The holidays are fast approaching and so this podcast is going to be another shorter one because I know you guys have a lot to do. |
| 0:31.0 | But I want to challenge you. I know in episode 135 I talked about taking |
| 0:37.5 | your China teacups and turning them into ornaments and giving those as holiday |
| 0:42.1 | gifts this year. I'm going to be giving you some more or |
| 0:45.0 | ornaments and giving those as holiday gifts this year. I'm going to be giving you some more ideas just like that |
| 0:46.0 | that are not going to take very much money or very much time on your part, but are going to open up some really awesome conversations as the |
| 0:54.7 | family gathers here towards the end of the month. So I have four things that I |
| 0:58.9 | specifically want to talk to you about in addition to that teacup idea. When your family |
| 1:05.5 | gathers wherever they gather, I want you guys to look at the photos that you've |
| 1:10.6 | collected over the years. So, like I mentioned in episode 135, |
| 1:16.0 | usually there's somebody in the family |
| 1:18.6 | that is considered the historian. |
| 1:21.0 | And this is the person who ends up getting all of the photos, all of the old |
| 1:25.8 | valuable furniture or what we figure is valuable from past generations. They might |
| 1:31.8 | have all the China at their house. This is the person that is usually more |
| 1:36.4 | sentimental and you don't necessarily meet at their house but they have the stuff. Sometimes it's the |
| 1:41.8 | oldest sibling in the family. Sometimes it's the oldest sibling in the family, sometimes it's the |
| 1:44.2 | youngest, it just depends. You know who it is in your family or maybe you are that |
| 1:48.7 | person. So I want to think about what is in your storage room that is memories and we're going to be thinking about who you're going to be spending the holidays with now |
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