Back in April, I wrote an enthusiastic blog post about my favorite RootsTech 2020 presentation, Do Something with That Box from Stacy Julian. She kindly gave me permission to reprint her helpful handout because she hadn’t written about it on her own website.
I was delighted to see that last month she published a robust blog post on the topic that fleshes out what I wrote about. It’s called How to BEGIN with the Box and I urge you to check it out, even if you’ve read my post. It provides great detail and it includes the downloadable pdf of the handout, along with photos and explanations.
When I drove to Walla Walla in September, I took the opportunity to bring home a box of family stuff. It’s not so much documents as photos, but I intend to use Stacy’s framework as I go through it. (The box been sitting unopened for almost six weeks now…I think our stay-at-home holiday time will be a good time to address it.)
If you have a box of family memorabilia to go through, do yourself a favor and check out her terrific post. You can thank me (well, really, Stacy) later.
Yesterday’s email arrived at the perfect time. I conduct an end of the year review of my accomplishments, current and future projects. Somehow your April post slipped into the abyss, because the timing was wrong for me. I have multiple boxes from my parents, not to mention personal items hidden in some drawers. This post provides a doable game plan and motivation to include a drawer &/or a box on my 2021 To-Do List.
Thanks for posting the “You may also like.” I will read those to glean nuggets.
Thank you for posting this! I’ve found several other boxes and am going to give this a try! I really like the idea of processing items after there are a certain number in your Action folder! It’s just human nature to keep looking in the box but then you just have a mess. Z