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*This post may contain affiliate links, which means at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through or make a purchase. I had a wildly popular post last year about how to organize all of your child’s school paper keepsakes in just one box, and then I followed it up with another post about how to organize all of your child’s non-school paper keepsakes in just one box. Both of those posts went viral, and ever since then, I’ve been getting the same question over and over again – how do you organize all of your child’s NON-PAPER keepsakes? Well friends, I’m finally going to share that with you today! And can I tell you a secret? It’s actually pretty simple. Jacob's Clothing Keepsake Box & Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box Olivia's Clothing Keepsake Box & Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box Before I get into how I organize these things, let’s first define what non-paper keepsakes are. Non-paper keepsakes include (but are not limited to) clothing, blankets, toys, books, and other tangible items that ARE NOT PAPER. All of your paper keepsakes will be stored in your School Papers Keepsake Box or your Non-School Papers Keepsake Box, depending on which category they fall into, so these boxes that we are discussing today are for all keepsake items that ARE NOT PAPER. And if you missed the posts about how to store your child’s PAPER keepsakes then you can see them below: How to Organize All of Your Child’s School Paper Keepsakes in Just One Box How to Organize All of Your Child’s Non-School Paper Keepsakes in Just One Box Now for how to organize all of the other keepsakes that ARE NOT PAPER… For all non-paper keepsakes, each of our children has two boxes – one for clothes, and one for everything else (toys, books, knick-knacks, trophies, etc.). All you'll need for this project is the following: 2 plastic containers per child (we love these Sterilite 18 gallon containers but there are lots of other options like these, these, these, or these) Labels (I love these) Chalk marker (I love these) Throughout their lives, we will save their very favorite and treasured items in these two categories, and the goal is to be able to fit every single non-paper keepsake in just these two boxes. If we ever reach the point where either box is full, we’ll have to decide what to keep and what to toss so that we stay in our limit of just two boxes. Now for the details… Clothing Keepsake Box The clothing keepsake box is for… you guessed it… clothes! #Duh I also keep blankets in these boxes. Jacob's Clothing Keepsake Box Olivia's Clothing Keepsake Box Each child’s clothing box contains/will eventually contain the following items: - All outfits they wore for the four professional picture sessions during their first year of life (newborn, 4 month, 8 month, 12 month – these are the pictures in the panels that hang in our dining room) - First bib - First bathing suit - First sunglasses - First jacket - First Easter outfit - First Halloween costume - First Thanksgiving outfit - First Christmas outfit - First Christmas PJs - First/favorite blanket - First sleepsack - All personalized birthday shirts (we had special shirts made for each of their birthdays, ages 1-5) - Other special shirts that they made/decorated at school for special events/holidays - Team jerseys from sports they play - Team shirts from sports (Jacob has a couple from soccer with his name on it) - First dance recital costume, first ballet shoes, etc. - First school uniform - A few other outfits/shirts they wore throughout their lives that they loved so much/that had special meaning. For example, Jacob was obsessed with a particular Superman shirt for years and he wore it so much that it faded and wore completely out. We also had a Big Brother shirt made for Jacob when I found out I was pregnant with Olivia, and that’s how we announced our pregnancy. That shirt is a keeper, too. :o) All clothing items have a note card attached to them and they are labeled with the date/age of the child and the event for which they wore them or reason why we are saving them. Here is what our kids’ clothing keepsake boxes look like so far: Inside of Jacob's Clothing Keepsake Box Inside of Olivia's Clothing Keepsake Box They’re pretty full already, but I don’t foresee adding too much more to them anyway. Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box The non-paper items keepsake box contains all other keepsakes that are not paper and are not clothes – stuff like toys, books, trophies, and other knick-knacks. Jacob's Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box Olivia's Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box Each child’s non-paper keepsake box contains/will eventually contain the following items: - Photo album of ultrasound pictures - Book of their birth that I made - One Line a Day (journals I kept from their first five years of life) - Baby book - Infant keepsake box (you can see more about the contents of those here) - Ticket Stubs book - Diaper bag - First bottle - First sippy cup - Rock collection box - Souvenir penny book - Disney Autograph book from our Disney trips - Mickey ears from their first Disney trip - Favorite stuffed animal - Very favorite toys through the years - Very favorite books through the years - Trophies/other medals that don’t fit in their school keepsake boxes - Flowers/corsages from first dances, etc. - Other random school projects that they want to save that don’t fit in their school papers keepsake boxes (posters, pottery, picture frames, etc.) - Other special keepsakes, souvenirs, collectibles, etc. - Hard drive of all pictures, videos from their lives (I’ll add those way down the road when they’re older) Here is what our kids’ non-paper keepsake boxes look like so far: Inside of Jacob's Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box Inside of Olivia's Other Non-Paper Items Keepsake Box They both still have lots of room to grow! And here are close-ups of the infant keepsake boxes, baby books, birth books, and ultrasound photo albums for each child that are in the bottom of these boxes: Jacob's Ultrasound Photo Album, Birth Book, Baby Book, and Infant Keepsake Box Olivia's Ultrasound Photo Album, Birth Book, Baby Book, and Infant Keepsake Box And that’s it, y’all! Simple. If you aren’t as sentimental as we are, then you may make it your goal to just have ONE keepsake box for all non-paper keepsakes where you combine clothes, toys, books, and other knick-knacks together. I just couldn’t bring myself to get rid of all of their first little outfits, so that’s why we designated an entire box just for clothes. And we just keep these boxes in the back corner of the kids' closets! Now that I have all of the keepsake posts in writing and on the blog, I’m planning to do one big keepsake post to sum up everything! 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