The Best Way to Preserve Those Memories - Collecting Christmas Ornaments Over the Years
Right since the time I have been a child, I have been collecting and preserving all the Christmas Ornaments that were presented to me.
If the ornaments presented to me were edible in nature, I conveniently ate the ornament and preserved the wrapper or the packing of the ornament in order to commemorate and the people who had gifted them to me.
Collecting ornaments and preserving them in totality or some part of the packaging or the ornament is a great way of tracking the sweet memories that Christmas brings with itself, over the years.
It is also a great way to remember your friends and family members, especially if they live far away from you.
Imagine opening up your Pandora's box one day and coming across all the Christmas Ornaments that you have received till date from every one in the family and amongst the friends.
It is a great feeling, isn't it? Even greater is the joy of getting the feel of being near the person who had once gifted you a star or a wooden stick or a glass bead or a Greeting card with a customized message on top of it.
Wouldn't it just be great if you could bring all the memories of the past, back to life? Indeed, it is an overwhelming feeling and this feeling is the basis of the idea which prompts me to collect Christmas Ornaments every year.
Besides, the ornaments that you would have collected over a span of, say, 25 years, would serve as great dressing atop your Christmas Tree.
Be it a 1975 Polka dotted glass ball or a Cross made out in Titanium, dated December '05, imagine the kind of variation and disparity you would have in your Christmas Tree when you line all these ornaments up and dress your Christmas Tree in a plethora of Christmas Ornaments, spanning more than two decades! Another way in which you can arrange these ornaments on your Christmas Tree is by forming a time-line.
You can start with your first Christmas and start arranging all the ornaments, gifts and collectibles that you would have got in a circular (or horizontal) fashion, giving your tree a virtual showcase of the years gone by.
Imagine the possibilities you have with collectibles and old ornaments- so the next time you think of disposing away that wrapper or the broken glass bead from last Christmas, think again and find out a way of using it on your next year's Christmas Tree!
If the ornaments presented to me were edible in nature, I conveniently ate the ornament and preserved the wrapper or the packing of the ornament in order to commemorate and the people who had gifted them to me.
Collecting ornaments and preserving them in totality or some part of the packaging or the ornament is a great way of tracking the sweet memories that Christmas brings with itself, over the years.
It is also a great way to remember your friends and family members, especially if they live far away from you.
Imagine opening up your Pandora's box one day and coming across all the Christmas Ornaments that you have received till date from every one in the family and amongst the friends.
It is a great feeling, isn't it? Even greater is the joy of getting the feel of being near the person who had once gifted you a star or a wooden stick or a glass bead or a Greeting card with a customized message on top of it.
Wouldn't it just be great if you could bring all the memories of the past, back to life? Indeed, it is an overwhelming feeling and this feeling is the basis of the idea which prompts me to collect Christmas Ornaments every year.
Besides, the ornaments that you would have collected over a span of, say, 25 years, would serve as great dressing atop your Christmas Tree.
Be it a 1975 Polka dotted glass ball or a Cross made out in Titanium, dated December '05, imagine the kind of variation and disparity you would have in your Christmas Tree when you line all these ornaments up and dress your Christmas Tree in a plethora of Christmas Ornaments, spanning more than two decades! Another way in which you can arrange these ornaments on your Christmas Tree is by forming a time-line.
You can start with your first Christmas and start arranging all the ornaments, gifts and collectibles that you would have got in a circular (or horizontal) fashion, giving your tree a virtual showcase of the years gone by.
Imagine the possibilities you have with collectibles and old ornaments- so the next time you think of disposing away that wrapper or the broken glass bead from last Christmas, think again and find out a way of using it on your next year's Christmas Tree!