Anyone else making a 'COVID memory box'?

[Willowmartha1]

No me neither but I saw a post on Facebook today from a lady asking for advice about what else she can add to her COVID memory box !! Personally I want to forget the whole damn horror once it's over. Anyone else ?

Framed photos of covid- related things such as empty loo roll aisle.

I am worried about explaining the loo roll thing to my grandchildren, I will have to skip that bit. If they even ask that is, or I have any grandchildren.

I didn't get a Boris letter either! DS did make me my own Chris Whitty out of an egg though.

Our memory box would be empty photo album without our holiday photos, without graduation and 21st birthday photos and with a copy of the order of service for funerals we couldn't go to.

No way, i would rather forget this year and fast forward to next year.

I'm keeping my letter from Boris and Nicola.
Also keeping my key worker letter provided from my employer to show if I get stopped going to and from work

Yep, I’ll make one . I’ll put all of the horrors into it and then burn it

Ugh that’s grim. Much like the salt dough family handprints with “lockdown 2020” painted on that I’ve seen on mine.

Boris sent us three letters don't you know! I kept the first two, I binned the third. No memory boxes here either.

I've been intending to record it somehow, because it will be social history one day. Not a memory box, that implies rose-tinted specs and at the heart of this all is death and suffering, but I think I will regret not recording it in some way.

My kids are making lockdown scrap books of newspaper stories alongside activities they have done, letters form grandparents etc. I think it will be interesting to look back on but then my gran has an evacuation scrap book and my mum a scrapbook on how to nuclear bomb proof a house from the cold war so maybe it's a family thing!

Wtf would you even put in it, an empty pasta packet and few toilet roll tubes? Maybe some hand sanitiser if you managed to get your hands on some. Ridiculous.

No Boris letter here either - interesting to see that so many households didn't get one. The fact that the government have failed at such a basic task doesn't exactly bode well for what lies ahead!

You say that.... by 2025 we could be looking back on this fondly as the peaceful before times before the space octopus invasion/giant wasp attacks/zombie kitten pandemic of 2021... (in much the same way I look back on the spring 2019 brexit chaos with a rueful smile)

Nope but some friends on Facebook are keeping a photo album of all their activities entitled - lockdown . They essentially post homeschooling pictures , baking and crafting pictures 🙄 I personally don’t want to remember this time !

I will keep the letter but certainly not in a 'memory box' . I run and put the photos on Strava or FB so have taken a couple of pictures of rainbows in windows and empty motorways, it really will be a massive part of history so yes will record a tiny bit of it for posterity.