Write a want ad that describes your spouse.
Tell about a favorite vacation from your childhood.
Describe your first home/apartment as a young couple.
Describe your first “crush” & what he/she was like.
What kind of extracurricular activities were you in at school?
Describe your wedding day.
Did you have a close relationship with your grandparents? Explain.
Describe the most serious illness you have had.
What lessons (i.e. piano, dance) did you take as a child that carried over into your adult life?
What’s the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you?
What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?
Did you have any household chores? What were they? Which did you enjoy most/least?
Where did you live as a child? (City, country, etc.)
Did you receive your education somewhere other than a school?
What is your favorite: color, flower, food, activity, hobby?
What would you like to be remembered for?
What were your fears, expectations, & anticipations about getting married?
Tell about the house(s) you lived in during your childhood. Do you remember the addresses or phone numbers?
Do you recall any outstanding family trips or summer holidays you experienced as a child?
What is the most trying experience that ever happened to you?
How many brothers/sisters do you have? Describe them. Tell a story about you & each of them.
What is your favorite book? What do books mean to you?
What games did you play in your house or neighborhood?
Tell about some of your neighbors as a child.
What things do you enjoy doing today that you also enjoyed as a child?
What is a special smell you remember from your childhood?
Tell about a special date you had with a boy/girlfriend, your fiancée?
Tell about your favorite aunt.
Did you wish you had more or less sisters or brothers? Why?
What is your greatest joy? What is your greatest sorrow?
What is the biggest lesson in life you found to be true?
What is the most important lesson or advice you’ve learned?
What is ONE WORD on how to live successfully?
Describe a night at Grandma’s house.
Have you met or worked with any famous people? Where, Who, When...
Tell about a frustrating experience you’ve had with your car.
Write about your parent’s courtship. (How they met, where, how long they dated etc)
Write about your courtship.
Describe your mother’s wedding dress. What do you know about her wedding?
What was your most embarrassing moment? (Be truthful)
Describe getting a Christmas tree as a child. (How it was decorated, when did you put it up?)
Describe a typical day during your High School years.
Did you go to college or take any special vocational training?
If you could choose your occupation again, would you choose differently? Why?
Describe your yard as a child. Did you help with yard work? Draw a picture of what it looked like.
Thinking back, was there a teacher or a class that had a great influence on you?
Tell about learning to drive & any memorable experiences while learning.
How did you become engaged?
What did you want to be when you grew up?
What did your grandfather do for a living?
Describe walking down the main street of your hometown.
Where did you go to school?
What do you think of television?
Are you the oldest, youngest, or middle child?
What were your mother’s best traits? Her worst? The ones you share?
Describe your Sundays.
Write about any conditions surrounding your birth that you are aware of and tell any interesting stories about your beginnings (how your name was chosen, any close calls, etc.).
Write about your mother; her personality, characteristics, stature, coloring talents, temperament, familiar stories about her, her role in your home, etc.
Tell about your father; his personality, characteristics, stature, coloring talents, temperament, familiar stories about him, his role in your home, etc
Tell about your parent’s philosophy of raising kids, discipline and rules.
Tell about any interesting or important visitors to you home.
Write about any schools you attended. (Special teachers, funny situations, achievements, etc)
What family customs do you recall which may have their origins in a foreign land? Describe any family traditions that you remember from your childhood.
Tell about all the places you’ve worked.
When you were a child, what got you into the most trouble with your parents? How well did they handle it?
List each of your uncles & aunts & tell one thing about each of them.
What are some of your hobbies right now?
Describe the perfect Autumn day.
How old were you & your spouse when you were married? How old were your parents when they married?
What do you think about movies? What is your favorite movie?
What is your advice to those younger than you?
Did you and your father share any interest? Tell about your relationship.
Describe the perfect summer day.
What do you remember about shopping with your mother? What was your favorite store?
What did your father do for a living? (How did he get to work, what time did he go & get home, did he take a lunch, who did he work with & did he get any special training for his job?)
What political party comes closest to representing your own point of view? How do you feel about politics?
Write a want ad that describes your mother.
What special things did you do with your father?
Tell about the birth of your first child.
What is your favorite holiday? How do you celebrate?
Where were you & what were you doing the day President Kennedy was shot, the day the first man landed on the moon and on 9-11?
Do you remember any special feelings you had as a child regarding fears, fantasies, etc.?
Describe your favorite type of clothing?
Between the ages of 5-10 what was your favorite activity?
What were your father’s best traits? His worst? Ones you share?
Describe a typical school day as a child in elementary school.
How did you like being the oldest/youngest/middle child? Did it have any particular advantages or disadvantages?
Do you recall any special events which took place in your neighborhood while you were growing up? (i.e. deaths, fires, accidents or illnesses)
What do you feel has been the most significant world event that has taken place during your lifetime & why?
Describe a favorite vacation in your married years.
Where did your grandparents live? What was their home like?
Tell about any pets you had as a child.
Tell about any religion practiced in your home.
Tell about any exciting experiences in scouting, camping, or hunting.
Were there any events, world or local that changed your life?
Write about your early romances.
How did you first meet your in-laws?
What do you remember about yourself as a teenager? What was important? What were your dreams?
What convinced you most in your choice of a spouse?
Tell about your teenage social life. Tell about your friends, dances, movies, dating outings, & church functions.
Did you serve in the military? If so, where & when? What do you remember about the experience?
Write about your wedding. (i.e. when, where, parties given, receptions, maid of honor/best man, colors, flowers).
What are some of your favorite smells?
Describe your cooking skills as a young spouse.
How did your mother or father wake you up in the mornings?
Describe the home you live in now.
What is your favorite dessert?
What sports do you enjoy watching & which sports do you enjoy doing?
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
What is your favorite time of day?
What can you remember about the day you were baptized?
Tell about any influential church leaders or teachers that are special to you & why.
What church service or callings have you had?
What presidents have been alive while you have been alive?
What is your principal occupation & what circumstances led to it?
How did your mother spend her time?
Where did your parents live when they first married? Tell about other places they lived as well.
What instrument do you play or you wish you could play?
What was your favorite Saturday activity as a child?
Do you have a favorite Brother or sister? What makes them special?
If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Tell about each of your children-names, birth dates and circumstances surrounding their birth, (characteristics & differences, growing up in your home, problems, joys, sorrows, accomplishments, etc.)
What is your child rearing philosophy?
Tell about your grandchildren. (How many, names, how you feel about being a grandparent, etc.)
Write about your life as the children left home. (New interests, what you did with the extra time, new employment, moves, hobbies, etc.)
What is your secret for good health?
What are your food preferences? How did they come about?
Tell about any civic or political activities in which you are involved.
What do you think brings good or bad luck?
Tell about home cures, or old wives tales such as hiccups, warts, toothaches, colds, earaches, birth control, arthritis, etc.
Handed-down talents: (i.e. cooking, clothespin dolls, pottery, quilting, meat drying, etc.)
Tell about any ancestors you know, give dates, names etc. & any stories about them.
Tell about the changes you’ve seen during your lifetime: society, technology, fashions, fads, politics, etc.
Tell about your philosophy for handling money.
What are your most precious & deeply embedded values?
What personality traits do you admire the most about yourself?
Do you remember any of your grandparents? What were their names & do you have any memories of them?
If you had your life to live over again, what would you change?
What kind of music do you like?
Do you have a favorite author? Who? Any favorite books as a child?
Tell about your favorite uncle.
Describe your wedding dress, bridesmaid’s dresses or tuxedos.
Describe a typical school day during your junior high years.
Describe a “sound” that you remember from your childhood.
Do you remember a special birthday party you’ve had, given or been to?
Write a want ad that describes your father.
Describe your first paying job. What was the salary?
How do you feel about winning & losing?
What are you frightened of?
Did you have a bicycle? What was it like?
Share a principle you have learned, or one you have taught.
What was the first piece of furniture you bought?
Describe the perfect spring day.
Describe a childhood Christmas.
Describe a childhood birthday.
What special things did you do with your mother?
How was discipline carried out in your home?
What is the most adventuresome thing you have ever done?
Were you ever in a drama, speech, sport, pep club, etc?
Did you go on a mission for your church? If so, where & when? What do you most remember about it?
Did you learn a foreign language? Can you speak it today?
How many foreign languages can you speak? List them.
Describe the perfect winter day.
Are there any family heirlooms in your possession? Tell about them & how you acquired them.
Where are some of the most interesting places you’ve traveled?
What are your hopes for you children and grandchildren?
If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it?
If you could re-do an event in your life, which event would it be and how would you re-do it?
Do you believe in life after death?
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you travel?
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Tell about your own family traditions; Christmas, birthdays, graduations, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, hunting, funerals, Memorial Day, Mother’s or Father’s Day, Weddings, etc.
What kinds of things do you collect?
List the activities you’d do if you weren’t so afraid.
List the compliments you receive on a regular basis.
List your favorite talents.
What always makes you laugh?
What do you worry about?
List the components of your perfect day.
List the brand names you buy and swear by.
List all the modes of transportation you’ve taken.
List the best gifts you’ve ever been given.
List the things you think you can’t live without.
List all the occupations you’d like to try.
List the occupations you hope you never have to do.
List the ways you have changed for the better.
List the things you’d like to do before you die.
List the places you’ve visited that have altered your view of the world.
List all the elements in a perfect vacation.
List the menu for your favorite meal.
List the celebrities you’d like to meet.
List the songs you know by heart.
List the nicest things anyone ever did for you.
List your answered prayers.
List your favorite snacks and candy.
3 comments:
Terrific! You're making life easy for the rest of us! :) Thanx
Very nice!! Thank you for sharing Jaci!!
Thanks so much for sharing this Jaci! What a great gift to give someone.
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