Savor your Thanksgiving memories.
Store them permanently, make them easy to find, and pass them along to future generations and secure your legacy.
What does Thanksgiving mean to you, your family, friends, and future generations?
Locations may change and family may move to different parts of the country or the world but memories can be passed along as cherished family traditions.
What’s important to you?
Recipes
Food is often the center of the celebration and families like yours often have special dishes depending on their heritage. Families with an Eastern European heritage may like cabbage rolls and pozole is popular in Southern California and the southwest.
Do you have favorite recipes that you’ve collected from mothers and grandmothers? Or have you created recipes that you want to leave for children, grandchildren, and other descendants?
Those can be an important part of their holiday memories and they can be permanently stored like photos and videos.
Eating Out
Our lives get busy and cooking a large meal may not be possible or may not be fun.
Do you have a favorite restaurant that you order from or do you eat at a preferred place outside your home like a park?
After all, apartment living is the standard for many people in Southern California and having a large gathering may not be an option.
Being together away from the home can be meaningful and worth saving the moment in photos and videos.
Special traditions
College and NFL football games get the attention over the weekend but you might have pick-up football, soccer, basketball in the park that’s worth recording.
Maybe your special tradition is quieter and includes breaking out jigsaw puzzles.
These types of traditions reveal a part of who you are and how you interact with the world around you.
How to store your memories permanently
As a photo coach, I help families develop their personal photo plan to declutter photos and videos and unclutter digital images. Currently, I’m writing a book so you’ll have one place to reference best practices.
The storage tool I use is FOREVER®.
You can store your older memories and newest memories all in one place like this photo of me and my siblings…from 1962. Whoever thought I’d be a part of history?
Here’s what it offers:
· Digitization of printed photos, videos, handwritten letters and more
· An app to easily upload photos and videos from your phone
· Permanent Storage guaranteed for a lifetime, plus 100 years and with the goal of access beyond that timeframe
· Albums to store your memories
· The ability to describe photos and videos briefly or in book-length chapters
· Printing photo books and gifts from your account
· Researching and documenting your family history
Using FOREVER® is fun and it’s the best way I know to make your memories easy to share with friends and family.
Get creative using albums
I’ve written in more detail on digitization in previous blog posts. Scroll to the end for links.
Look through older holiday photos from Thanksgiving or Christmas and have them digitized.
Create albums in your FOREVER® account that you can name by holiday and year. Here are examples:
Christmas 1997
Easter 2012
Fourth of July 2018
Albums can also be named by place like Childhood Home or activity like Summer Vacation.
Name them in the way that makes the most sense for you.
You can create albums ahead of time for holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, vacations or any occasion.
Once the album is created then you can upload photos and videos from your phone using the FOREVER® app. After they’re stored then you can delete the photos and unclutter your digital images on your phone or other electronic device.
Turn albums into photo books
You can turn an album into a printed photo book to show a holiday celebration over a decade or year by year.
Think of Thanksgiving 2024 or Thanksgiving 2010 – 2020.
You can create photo books for specific people like cousins, nieces or nephews.
Albums are a powerful tool that make it easy to find the memories you treasure and want to share.
FOREVER® as permanent storage
Think of all the ways you can save your digital images: external hard drives, flash drives, social media or other storage services.
FOREVER® is the only true permanent storage solution.
Your files are triple-backed up and the company guarantees that your files will be safe.
How can they make the guarantee?
When current file formats become obsolete, the FOREVER Guarantee Fund ensures they will be migrated to the newest file format at no added cost to you or future generations. This is how your family history stored in FOREVER® Permanent Storage will remain accessible many decades from now.
Would permanent storage help you?
What memories do you have that you do not want to lose?
If you’d like, complete the personal photo questionnaire and let’s discover how to help you safeguard your most meaningful memories.
Contact me and I’ll be glad to help as I can.
P.S.
I’m writing a book on decluttering your photos and securing your legacy. It will publish in 2026.
Want to be among the first to get a copy and cut through the clutter?
Click here to sign-up for book sneak peeks, behind-the-scenes updates, and know the release date.
This is a must-have resource so you and your loved ones can enjoy your memories now and into the future.
Links to holiday blog posts
Put Your Thanksgiving Photos in the Best Light
Plan Your Photos Ahead of Time as Part of Your Personal Photo Plan
Let’s Declutter and Digitize Your Older Holiday Photos and Videos