Remembering Birthdays as Part of a Scrap Happy Project

Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

The first time I outlined The Happiness Project in order to develop My Scrap Happy Project, I left out remembering birthdays as a way to make time for friends. For me the most obvious way for a scrapbooker to remember birthdays is to make home made cards with their supplies and scraps. I do make some home made cards but have had poor experiences, such as when the recipient threw away the home made card in front of me (not to be hateful, but just because this person is not always real considerate). I am very selective about whom I give home made cards to now. So, home made cards are one way to remember birthdays.

How about simply remembering the birthday in your scrapbook? I know I am in the minority, it seems, in terms of scrapbooking traditions, but even if the scrapbook page seems to be the same every year, that is one way to remember birthdays. I would encourage you to chronicle different aspects of a tradition each time it occurs so that you memorialize the tradition, while keeping it fresh.

Another way to remember birthdays is to make a scrapbook as a gift. There are strong arguments for and against this practice, so I’ll let you think it over before proceeding. The only scrapbooks I make as gifts are photobooks for my mom, my sister, and my in-laws. Occasionally, I’ll make a digital scrapbook page. For me, digital scrapbooking or photobooks is the way to go for scrapbooks as gifts. If the person doesn’t appreciate it or they destroy it, I can print out another one and keep it myself. I can even make duplicates of the item: one for me and one for them. It still takes time, but I don’t feel as stressed about it as I would be had I made a conventional scrapbook as a gift.

What about you? How can you remember birthdays while pursuing a Scrap Happy Project?

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Stephanie