Is A Memory Book A Scrapbook?

Is a Memory Book a Scrapbook.

Quite simply…

Yes a Memory Book is a Scrapbook.

A memory book is a collection of a persons memories, it can be a single person, or a group of people and the memories are collected via photos, memorabilia and the written word, stories, comments, and the description of the event or world around them, including the smells, the sights, and the important dates and times.

Exactly the same as a scrapbook.

People have this idea that a scrapbook is a large paper backed book, that has a lot of coloured pages in alternating colours throughout the book. They have this idea that a scrapbook involves a pritt stick and a lot of cutting and sticking and pasting the items in the book. It has newspaper clippings, drawings, old tickets, and some scribbles on each page.

That is a form of a scrapbook, but that is not the only form.

Scrapbooks are also memory books.

Scrapbooks are full of peoples memories, full of peoples photos, full of their written word, full of their stories, and full of the important facts and figures. The names, dates and times.

Scrapbooks can be made by yourself, or can be made by a group – exactly the same as a memory book.

Scrapbooks can be made about a specific event, a wedding, a new baby, a birthday, a holiday. Or they can be made about a family, a child, a grandparent, a mother.

Scrapbooks and memory books are completely the same, they are different words for the same thing. But they are the same. They are about preserving your memories, keeping your photos safe, and writing down all the things you remember about that event, that era, that journey.

Scrapbooks and memory books, make a story, a story of your memories, your journey, your event and they enable you to pass these down to future generations.

Scrapbooks and memory books let your future family open up you album, see your story, read your story, and experience your story through you.

They hear about your best friend laughing on the slide, before landing on her bottom at the end, they see the laughter, they read about the tears that came streaming down your face, they see the sun, they read about the heat. They look at the year, they get your age, they experience the fun you had when you were 8. They relive it and you become alive to them.

So if you are after a memory book, you want a scrapbook, if you are after a scrapbook, you want a memory book. Remember they are the same. Just different words for the same item.