Birthday Memory Book

Birthday Memory Book

The idea of taking a photograph every year on your birthday is not a new one, and the photographs create a fascinating memory book record of annual changes that we just don't notice from day to day.

The first bit of advice we would offer is to 'keep it going'.

We've heard of so many people who have a collection of birthday photographs up to middle-age, but which are missing from middle-age onwards. It's natural that you would want to stop displaying pictures whilst the last one shows you in the prime of your life, but there's something special about photographs later in life. Yes there are lines and wrinkles, but there is a character there that doesn't show itself in the same way earlier in life.

So keep adding those pictures, warts an all!

The second bit of advice we would offer is to also keep a list of who you get cards off.

When we are children we tend to get a lot, from all our relatives and all our school friends. So it's not always appropriate to keep all the cards. But you could perhaps keep one, and on the back of that one, write the names of everyone you got a card from.

Over the years this provides a valuable resource for you. A record of who you knew at each year. Relatives, school friends, college or university friends, colleagues at work, girlfriends and boyfriends. A wealth of information that is so easily forgotten if you are not careful.