So I haven’t posted in around three weeks, which
gives you enough time for 2013 to kick in.
I spent my New Years Eve at my mum’s
cousin’s house and we watched Pitch Perfect (for the 5th time) and
once the clock struck midnight, I literally said “Is it midnight already?”
The sad thing is that I actually meant it
and didn’t know that it was already 2013.
Anyway, for 2013, I’ve planned to start a
memory jar.
You’ve probably seen the picture with the
instructions on it floating around Facebook and Tumblr, but here’s my memory
jar and instructions to make your own – I guess.
So first, you’ll need an empty jar. It can
be a coffee jar or a large jam jar. It just needs to be big enough to hold
around 365 folded up pieces of paper.
I customised mine because I got kind of
bored one day and attempted to be creative.
I basically put scotch tape on the jar and
painted blue and red, respectively twice.
A
good thing with a coffee jar – the one I used was from Moccona – is that under
the lid, there’s some plastic that you can remove but is there so the jar can
suction close.
You can remove that and put in little
keepsakes, like shells or beads or petals or something. I put a row of beads
that I arranged into a rainbow, two fabric flowers in there and a locker rental ticket that I got when I went to the State Library of NSW for the first time.
So what you do then is write down a good
thing that happened to you that day on little slips of paper, fold it up and
put it into the jar. One of mine is like “Stayed
up until midnight with Sharmin and laughed endlessly at reaction pictures”.
Then at the end of the year, you can read
through them and remember all the awesome stuff that happened to you.
I also like to date them, because I don’t
write only one thing, I write all the good things that happened to me because I
always focus on the negative. So the more good I write, the more I reminisce
and smile.
You can choose to do that or just let your
mind wander and remember the memories, dateless but nevertheless great
memories.
Here's some photos of my jar.
I may have done this post really late,
but if you have a great memory or a social networking account you update
frequently – you may be able to start this on the 1st.
To add to the coolness, you can write them
on coloured paper like I did. I can’t wait until it starts to fill up and I get
more keepsakes for that section of the jar.
Hope you and everyone you know had a great
New Years.
Here’s to cooler, kickass and more posts in
2013.
- Yasmin x
