Keepsake boxes

[Gemini]

Do you have one for your children, or do your daughters or daughters-in-law have them for your grandchildren?
Of course, you could make one of your own for your grandchild!
I am moving some posts from another topic onto this thread.

[Nana]

Pearl, you saying about a keep sake box made me wonder how many Grans on here have one? I never did but really wish I had now. My DDS partner's mum kept everything, toys, clothes, shoes, the lot.Both my DDS have been keen to do it too. I don't think mine materialised because my sister & I shared all our baby stuff & was so worn it wasn't worth keeping. 😁

[MillieB]

My DD makes memory boxes as one of the things she does for her craft business. Mainly to keep small things in .She personalises each one to order.I wish I had had one to keep everything together.
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[Gemini]

Keepsake boxes are a lovely idea.
I don't have one. I do have all the birth congratulations cards from all 3 DDs, baby hospital tags, a baby shoe from my last one, and a fair number of drawings and cards from them. Also I have all my 21st birthday cards.
I should gather them alll together into a box.

[Plantaholic]

I have most of the art work my GC gave to me. I was looking in a drawer that had been my late husbands and found a lavender bag with a note saying, keep this it is blessed. Not sure by whom but it was a lovely find.

[aggie]

I had kept some handknit cardis and other baby things in a box at the back of a cupboard . You can imagine how I felt when my first Granddaughter was wearing one of the handknits at her Mum and Dads wedding , I was really choked . Downside is , I have no idea where it went to after

[ZIZI]

I don't have a keepsake box per se but I do have a big drawer full of all the pictures, cards and things that the children have given me. it also has things like I threw of awards I have won, nice places we have been as in Orient Express for husbands 60th, Trooping of the colour etc.

[Qwerty]

I am like you Tiz I have a drawer full of pictures, birth announcement card, christening cards and congrats cards, the wrist tags they both had when first born, weight cards, first dress, locks of hair, all their baby teeth which my DD finds gross and shawl that both babies came home in , my two didn't want the shawl I was told they don't use them now as they are in car seats to be carried home in I find it sad that bit of coming home with a new baby when the nurse carried them to a car for you gone now of course I understand why they have to see they are strapped in the car all the same always thought it a special moment.

[Shemadee]

I've got a few random items. A couple of dresses and one baby suit that my son wore. Also a school cap and a pair of tiny tap shoes. Lots of cards and drawings from school. A couple of sindy dolls with clothes made by my mil. Also some tiny tears outfits she made as well. All scattered around the house and loft. Perhaps I should gather them together?

[Gemini]

Shem, we should make it a task over winter to gather them together!

[Nanto2girls]

I don't have a keepsake box. I have a few things from when the kids were small.I have got a lock of eldest sons hair,from when he had it cut the first time.Still have some Christmas tree decorations that both of them made at school.
When they were older, the eldest made a video stand in woodwork at school, to hold some of the videos we had. It's a cupboard now, but I won't part with it.

The youngest one, made a kitchen roll holder in woodwork, (one that goes on the wall)and we still use it.

[Nana]

What an upside down day I've had. I was looking at my family tree (on my dad's side) & it's so fascinating. Goes back to the 1600s.

Then I've been sorting my pictures to go on the external drive. I was laughing & crying all at the same time. I do regret not having a Keepsake Box, but we still have our family history & our memories.💜

[Plantaholic]

Wow, that is amazing to have traced your family back to the 1600's Nana

[Daisy]

I don't have a keepsake box. I think I have the hospital wrist bands from both our sons - somewhere. We've got the usual photo albums - some of which have deteriorated and spoilt the photos. I keep saying I'll scan them and restore them - when I've got time!! That's about all - oh, and a small beech cheese board DS1 made in woodwork, which we still use.

That's not much, is it!!

[ZIZI]

I don't have a lot of stuff from when my natural an was small as we moved about a bit. Still got "Black Bunny Mummy" which is a corduroy black bunny whic used to have a yellow apron and also used to have a partner called, with great imagination "White Bunny Daddy" he had a felt hat and dungarees but he ended up the bottom of the Thames when my nephew chucked him in. Son was devastated,even though he was about ten at the time, there was alas no rescue for WBD. I also have a beanie baby that he used to have and a couple of other bits. He got very upset one day when I gave to the grandchildren to play with and he was about 38 at the time!

we have some things from the two other boys but not much except pictures. Mother "other mother" was not very sentimental and nothing got kept for the future. we kept some of the eldest son's kick boxing trophies but recently returned them to him.