Is this a good idea or just a bit naff?

Gettingtherequickly

I know that most photos are digital now, but please, please, please print one that will be really embarassing :eek:. We all have one that our parents have taken, so why should they miss out?:D

mary-op

I think its a brilliant idea :T
I've done similar myself for my boys and now they're adult they seem to appreciate it more when the memories come flooding back of places they've been.
I kept postcards of holiday resorts, bus tickets, badges, photos of houses we've lived in as well as mum and dads. They've been more but I can't think off hand. I put them altogether in a scrapbook for each of them the other christmas and made it a sort of family tree/mementos.

sethsgran

Also nice to add a personal letter to each child, annual event, updating them on their achievements that year like first lost tooth, start school. Also you could add a copy of school reports. When you get class photos put the names on the back of each child in their class as by the time they are 18 they will have probably forgotten who lots of them are.

katie1812

Lovely idea. Something I've seen others do and it's great fun collecting stuff

wik

What a great idea....
I have all the makings to do these, I just need to get on!!
A couple of years ago my late mother and I went to a cancer support group meeting and a lady gave a talk about making memory boxes..
On the way home, mum said to me... hmmmm I dont know about a memory box!! we have a memory house!!

And its true!! I have 2 large wooden trunks full of things.. every picture my children bought home from school, all the cards they have had since birth!! they are now 18, 16 and 13:rotfl:

But Mum was worse than me!! we have all cards she got from wedding etc...

We even have my grandmothers 21st birthday cards, communion cards etc...

I love to sit on a winters night and look through the memories
wik x

Chipsmum_2

No I think it's a great idea as I have a baby box for my son and he's nearly 12. Kept things from being a baby - a couple outfits, hair cutting, tooth, little toys (his Thomas trains), first shoes, slippers, one of his first size nappies (unused of course), birthday candles, napkins (Tellytubbies were his first birthday theme), important birthday / christmas cards, things from nursery, playgroup, school stuff, newspaper cuttings/photo's with him in.

I just pop anything I think he'll like when he's older, even now loves to occasionally looks through it. I think it'll be great for him to show his children.

Okydoky25

I have started this formy now 16m old and will do one for my next. I wish I had something similar from my own childhood tbh! Something my DH does which he ony recently told me about was to set up an email account in sons name and emails him. I'm not allowed to see what is sent but he says he tells him what he's been getting up to, walking, teeth, weaning all the 1st, what we are getting up to, moving house, holidays etc he also sends photos. I just hope DS les me have a nose when he's told about it

I_Love_Cupcakes

I think it's a great idea I have quite a few things saved from when mine was a baby, even one of the milk formula tins! I never really kept it up as I should have done and I like the idea of keeping special coins and stamps. It's definitely something well worth doing and I am sure they will appreciate it when the time comes.

littlemschatabox

I think its a fantastic idea, my mum & dad gave me all sorts of things on my 21st that they had saved over the years. My mum had saved the news paper from my birthday every year of my life, so that was a really interesting thing to read. There was lots of photies & old childhood toys etc but the 'history' things were the most interesting bits to me at the time. My mum also saved a bottle of champagne that she was given as a christening gift to her/for me which i hav kept unopened & still with the 24 year old tags on. Im keeping it forever!

themull1

I'm more of a lets chuck everything out kind of person, so i couldnt be bothered to keep bits and pieces like that, i don't keep anything, birth of baby cards,18/21/wedding cards, drawings from the kids etc, all gets binned. I keep nowt!