Stuff We Love: Birthday Buys for Kids

by Laurie McLaughlin

Like frosting and sprinkles, kids and birthdays belong together. Sure, it's all about "me, me, me" on this one special day, but that's okay. It's a delight to celebrate with a young'un who still proudly proclaims her age out loud, even when she's not all hopped up on sugar. We've found five things we just love that'll make this birthday — whether it's year three or 13 — extra spectacular.

For keeps

The ticket stub from the Backstreet Boys concert. The invitation to your first co-ed party. Faded photos of unidentified scenic locales snapped with a Polaroid on that trip the family took across Idaho. Yep, we like to save stuff. We're a nation of pack-rats, but it's all so sentimentally valuable, and what else could possibly take up that space on the top shelf of the closet? Here's a great way to help your kid keep all those precious birthday memories organized — this album's got 12 pockets for stashing merry memorabilia and room for writing lists of guests, presents and happy happenings. And, we promise, a couple of decades from now, those old money cards signed from dear Great Grandma Kathy will be worth a heck of a lot more than the birthday bucks she sent. Happy Birthday to Me! Keepsake Album, $16.95 at select retailers.

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