On the last day of every month, I post a little reminder to "roundup" your memories for the month. This simple little exercise will prompt you to take a few minutes and jot down the details of the ending month before the new one takes over. Look over your calendar, your blog posts, your photos, or whatever types of records you have kept throughout the month. I find that even reviewing my bank statement jogs my memory about what has happened in the month.
I’ve been doing monthly roundups since January of 2006 and I can't even begin to tell you how much easier it has made memory keeping for me! I am constantly referencing my past roundups for ideas for scrapbook pages, and I always have material for journaling now. After I answer the questions I just post them to my blog and my roundup is done. If you don't have a blog, just save them on your hard drive or print them out. You can even create a scrapbook of roundups!
Here’s an example of a monthly roundup reminder post and here’s an example of how I did my own roundup recap.
Katie’s Roundup Archives:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
I hope you will “giddy up” and join me in doing your own monthly roundups!
