Do you have a storage box/place for items that you truly value? Or love? Or both?

Everyone is always told that you should keep your valuables (papers, deeds, birth certificates) somewhere if you should have an emergency and have to exit your house quickly. That’s always discussed…but what about other items that aren’t “necessities” for the world, but necessities for the heart? What about another box for things that are just beautiful or special? (Not counting photos.)

Do you have a box/case/trunk where you store items of sentimental value? In my mom’s day, a girl received a Lane cedar chest or a trunk to begin to save her items for her “trousseau”. This usually was a gift on graduation from high school. I still remember “Seventeen” magazine advertising their Lane chests even when I was in school (though I didn’t know of anyone who got one…they were not in vogue anymore.)

I was looking around my house and thinking that there were special books, small momentoes, embroideries, gifts from special friends and just bits of this and that that were beautiful and I would want to keep…even if everything else had to go. Basically, I would want a container (of some sort) that would hold these items. I have moved a lot in my life ( though not recently) and I just feel like sometimes I have regretted having a history that is in storage across the world.

Do you have a container for your special items (perhaps to pass on to your children)? What is it? How did you choose it? What did you put in it?

(I am looking for ideas…I couldn’t imagine hauling a huge chest unless there is one on wheels! But a small container wouldn’t work either. I also wanted to just discuss the subject in general as it seems that the “trunk in the attic” has gone the way of the dinosaur.)