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Photograph Your Mementos

Unclutterer has a brilliant idea for reducing knickknack and keepsake clutter. Take your mementos and photograph them.

From the article:

Finally, he [my husband] screamed, “wouldn’t pictures of all of this stuff serve the same purpose as storing it?”

He was right. It wasn’t the physical objects that mattered to me, it was the memories represented by the objects that mattered.

Over the next few weeks, I went through the contents of the bin and took digital photos of the items with my camera. I organized the photos in an iPhoto album and filled in the photo’s Notes field with information about the object’s associated memory. Then, I threw away the object without any guilt or sense of loss.

[Click here for ‘Photographing your mementos’ at unclutterer]

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