2025-06-10 Storing Your Old Documents: As Author Laurie L. Dove writes in How to Properly Store Antique Documents, "The issue isn't whether you have important papers to pass down -- it's how many you have in the first place." Knowing how to care for your essential documents and photos can insure their survival for generations, and the above-mentioned article provides some practical insights on how to do that. For more ideas on protecting and preserving photos and documents, see Goal 1 in Project 2: Memories. (See all tips.)
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