The WoW Style

Millions of people relocate every year with kids having to re-acclimate to a new set of circumstances, not just a house but neighbors, community, school, friends, lifestyle, everything. It can be exciting, but it can also incite fear and intimidation plus a level of sadness when you have to say goodbye to what you’re leaving behind.

Whether the opportunity is better as far as the ideal school and job opportunities, it could be a completely different climate, unique culture to adapt to, and perhaps an affordability difference. There can be vast complexities. A house is a brick and mortar, but a home is so much more than that. 

It’s a place of sanctitude, where families congregate after potential tough days spending quality time and celebrating milestones. Even if the move is a positive change, leaving treasured memories is challenging. How can you retain those memories or what can you do in the new location that will help to remind you of home?

What Are Some Ways To Remind Yourself Of Home After A Move

Leaving the place that grew to be your home came to be significantly traumatic, even if the move is in so many ways a positive change. While you can’t relive those milestone moments that made your home so special, you can do things to remind you and keep those memories alive. Find out ways to remind you of home at https://www.bbc.com/workife/gallery/20180213-the-objects-that-remind-us-of-home#.

One specific way to keep a record of the home, the people, and the intimate places for you is to photograph everything before you leave, from your favorite rooms in the house to your best friend to the stores you frequented. 

Uploading these onto the computer will ensure you can save these as long as you’d like to, even pass them to your children if you feel the need. Any time you feel particularly nostalgic, you have a unique record to look back on.

• Replicas can help with the process

If you didn’t get to take furnishings or decor with you from the house, look at a home store (click here for one of the best) to find replicas or items close in nature to what you had so that your space can feel like home for you. Some people take souvenirs from their old house like doorknobs, foliage, even framing where parents took kids’ measurements. 

It’s a nice familiar touch in the new house. Just ensure if you take something significant that you replace these things in the old house.

If you carved your initials in the tree, take that piece of the tree with you and have it framed. The tree will survive as long as you’re careful. A big issue is leaving people behind. 

Best friends can be challenging to let go of, but in the day of technology, there’s no need to avoid keeping in touch in some way. With Skype and FaceTime, interaction is still possible. In these times, with everyone remaining so isolated, most people are interacting like this anyway, especially with gas prices and air travel, making visiting a challenge for most people, including family members.

• Leave a piece of yourself behind for people to remember you by

Sometimes people, kids generally, will leave a box (time capsule) buried in the back garden with a dated message, or parents will have their child put their handprints on the sidewalk with the date, so there’s a record of their having been in the home. Some children will carve an opening in their closet and put things in the area for people to find at some point or write messages in the space.

These give the children mostly comfort that there’s still a piece of themselves in the home that ultimately someone will find. That might bring peace of mind when you leave, but taking a little part with you so that you can remember the house is probably the better idea.

Another good idea is planning to go back at some point to visit the house to see how the new people are taking care of the house. Often when people revisit their old homestead, it’s not at all what they remember. 

We usually remember a much grander opulent existence than what was actually the case because we were much younger then. That’s why it’s genuinely beneficial to pay a visit when we’re a little older to see what it looks like after time passes. 

Final Thought

We all feel a sense of grief when having to leave something that has grown familiar, comfortable, and gives us a sense of security. Taking something from that house to help relieve a bit of that grief can help with the process, no matter how small. And looking to a store that can help mimic some of the pieces you had in that home with your new place will allow you to gain new confidence, develop fresh memories, and start again with a different mindset. Pick up stuff from specialty stores that remind you of home and start decorating your home or even just a part of your home around it.

Once you meet people and adjust to the setting, you might see some unique things that you want to bring into your surroundings and might find yourself at the store looking for a theme that matches the environment you’re in now. 

Not that you’ve forgotten the old – you meet your best friend on skype all the time, but you’ve branched out to include the new – and that’s okay.