Test Your Memory With The Memory Box...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
May 17, 2008 8:02am CST
As we get older, some of our memory skills start to fade. When I was in school I took a class that helped improve your mind skills including memory. One of my favorite practices was the memory box. The teacher would bring in a large box (similar to a dress box) with items glued into the bottom. He’d sit the box on his desk and each student was allowed 10 seconds to look at the items in the box (you can shorten the time as you get better). Then you had to go back to your seat and make a list of how many things you remembered. The box usually had between 25-50 items and the grades went by how many you could list.
So, I’ve made my own version of the box. There are 25 items in the box. Open the pic attached and look at it for 10 seconds, close the pic and see how many you can name. This is based strictly on the honor system…so don’t cheat LOL
For those of you that get this as an email notifier and can’t see the pic yet, you can respond to the questions then add a comment if you want to try the box.
BTW, I’m disqualified since I made the box but I know that my memory and observation skills could use some work.
Do you think strengthening your memory is something ppl need to do as they get older? Have you ever played memory games with your kids? How good are you at remembering things?
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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18 responses
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
17 May 08
You did good...it isn't easy...at least for me it wasn't. Especially the first time we did it. After I knew what to expect though I did better and really liked playing it. It's alot of fun to do with kids too just using some of their toys, animal cookies, ect.
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
29 May 08
My memory is shot! I have always tried to remember things I can remember things from long ago but have short term memory problems. Like I have to be told several tiime to be able to remember something. I would probably have failed miserably at this if my teacher done it. But I will try that is the best I can do.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
29 May 08
I do think I need to play a little more memory game with my little sister who loves the game but here goes I have already forgotten some probably..bow,star,skull,pumpkin,button,gift,butterfly,bell,easter egg,flag,eyeball,watermelon,heart that is all I can remember.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
18 May 08
I have played games like these, mostly at things like wedding showers or baby showers, but I will take a stab at it..
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
18 May 08
skull,button,ball,pecan,pumpkin,eyeball
Wow, I did BAD 
@nova1945 (1612)
• United States
17 May 08
Thanks for the pop quiz. I remembered about 16 of them so don't know how that rates. A couple of items I didn't know what they were so just bypassed them. But did get most of them. There used to be a game on tv called "concentration" that was fun. And one of the websites I go to has a game like that although there is no strict time limit for all items and you can keep turning tiles until you get a match.
Memory is something that tends to start getting duller as we age, so keeping it as sharp as possible is important.
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
17 May 08
I don't think I ever saw that game but I do know I bought some card games for one of our younger foster kids years ago where you turn over the cards and then make matches. You did really good...I think your the highest so far.
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
21 May 08
hmmm, I'll have to try that..ould have a contest right here with my family members.. bet neither hubby or I would win!
@sincere4frdship (2228)
• India
18 May 08
No I haven't played this types of game yet .
I will try to go through it some times .
Thanks for share those experience with us ...
Thanks !!!
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
18 May 08
I work at cognitive skills every day, not because I fear losing anything as a result of growing older, necessarily, but just because it seems to me that the better skills we have the easier life will be. I have known people with photographic memories but who were unable to grasp complex theories, and some brilliant thinkers, such as Einstein, prefer not to remember things they can easily look up.
Memory loss does not have to be an inebitable part of aging in my view, and results, I think, from a combination of poor nutrition, lack of motivation, and as you suggest, sometimes lack of use. It is good to exercise the brain whatever age we are, starting in infancy.
@girlgonefishing (2174)
• United States
17 May 08
Wow. What a great idea. I'll go give it a try. My memory isn't as good as it used to be. My family all says that I am really smart, but I don't think so. LOL Let's see how well I do.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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17 May 08
Yes I do think that strengthening memory is something that I certainly need to focus on. Do you know that when I was a kid, I had a photographic memory, I could looking at something once and remember it. I could read a passage from a book and read it back word for word.
I was always used in plays to help people learn their lines and be a prompt for rehearsels because I could read a script through once or twice and know the whole thing. When I think back now to that, I think to myself "how on earth did I used to do that" I could not do it now that is for sure.
I do not play games with the kids, and I should do, but there you go, it is not something they are interested in so we play monopoly instead.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
17 May 08
a melon, a skull, a jack in the box, a jack o lantern
and oh my thats it for me. I do need to strenghthen
my memory for sure. we used to do this at parties
as its a lot of fun to see how much you can remember.
I know that I used to be pretty good at thiss.
