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Good Things & Great Times Jar

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I am a little bit behind on the new year’s personal development initiatives. I’ve seen this “good things & great times jar” on various blogs and I loved the idea.

A memory jar is similar to having a collective gratitude journal, but this one is a collective one for the family. A family memory collection jar. It encourages focusing on positive memories. You write good things that happen or good times you have individually or as a family on a small piece of paper and drop it into a jar. At the end of the year, new year’s celebration ritual includes, sitting down as a family and reading and reminiscing all these great memories you’ve had. How neat is that!

Good Things Jar

The jar is very simple to put together. You need:

1. Jar (IKEA Burken Jar)
2. Adhesive label to decorate
3. Memo sheets and
4. Pen (or pencil)

Materials for this project

The important part is to remember writing down good things and great times and filling up that jar. You might need to encourage your family members for doing so because you don’t want the events that are important and memorable to only one family member to be recorded.

 

What a great way to remember the good ol’ times than reading our notes from “good things & great times jar” of 2014 on NYE. Listening to them, I realized they wrote some of their happy memories without me reminding them. It is such a fun tradition and easy way to encourage gratitude. We are going to start filling up the now empty jar again. https://practicalmama.com/2014/01/good-things-great-times-jar/ #lategram #nye2015

A post shared by Practical Mama (@practicalmama) on Jan 1, 2015 at 8:06am PST


NYE 2015

 

We are a bit late in going through our notes in “good things & great times” jar. We are starting to fill up our jar for the third year this year. It’s great way to practice #gratitude as a family. You can find more about it on practicalmama.com.

A post shared by Practical Mama (@practicalmama) on Jan 3, 2016 at 9:09am PST

Update Jan 2016: We have filled out the Good things & Great times jar for the last 2 years. I admit I had to remind everyone to write and put in notes n the jar. However, everyone enjoys emptying the notes from the jar on the carpet and randomly reading them. It keeps us going.

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