Ways to Remember: Photo Albums and Lock screens
Making a memory box can be really helpful and a great way to keep everything important to you in one place.
Creating a physical memory box
You can choose any box you like, a shoe box, old delivery box, or there are some for sale on the Winston’s Wish online shop if you’d like to order a particular design. Ideally, the box will be a reasonable size so you can fit items inside such as letters, photos, trinkets, maybe a teddy, or anything else you have that’s important to you personally, belonged to them, or reminds you of your person.
Some people choose to write letters on anniversaries and continue to add to their memory box as time passes. This can also be a lovely thing to do if you don’t have many or any of your person’s belongings. If this sounds like you, then writing letters to them or collecting things you think they would have liked can help to form your memory box.
Creating a digital memory box
If you don’t have a box yet or maybe you don’t like that idea, a digital memory box might be a more convenient thing for you to do to remember your person. This could be stored on your phone or any other device you have for personal use. Your digital memory box could be a photo album with lots of memories or a collection of photos of things that have reminded you of your person since they died. Read more about photo albums and changing your lock screen here.
You can also write letters to your person or store other files and documents in your digital memory box. You might have documents like tickets from a show you went to, travel documents or an itinerary, or maybe something they worked on. Create a folder in Files on your phone or device to save everything in, you could call the folder something discrete but meaningful to you or by using your person's name.
You might have videos of your person to add to your folder too, or if you don’t have videos already, you could record messages or create videos in memory of your person. Some people like to post their videos on social media to share their experience and memories with others but if you don’t feel like doing that, storing them in a folder or ‘digital memory box’ might be helpful.
There are lots more you can check out, and if you have any questions or would like to talk to one of our support team about your grief, we’re here to listen.