How To: Organize a Baby Keepsake Box

Most baby keepsake boxes start out organized and end up as a pile. It usually happens gradually: the hospital bracelet goes in first, then a few photos, then somewhere around month six everything just gets...

How To: Build A Family Emergency Binder

A family emergency binder is not just for hurricanes and wildfires. It is just as often used for a sudden hospitalization, a trip where a grandparent is watching the kids, or the ordinary chaos of...

How To: Organize Estate Planning Paperwork, Step by Step

Most estate planning paperwork does not live in one place. The will is with the attorney, the insurance policy is in an email somewhere, and the deed to the house is in a drawer nobody...

On Minimalism, Sentimentality, and Getting Organized

Musings on the importance of organization when storing mementos and the joys of everything having a place. The journey from disorganized, stress-inducing keepsakes to well managed and beautiful stored memories.

Get Organized for the New Year!

How many times have you started January with the intent of getting more organized? Yet despite New Year’s resolutions or best intentions, we rarely make progress in this area of our lives.   But what if instead of the...

What's your most important childhood keepsake?

  When my mom was only 13-years-old, her mother died after a painful battle with cancer.  Her father got remarried to a woman who, to put it mildly, was not the warm and fuzzy type. ...

Taking A Great Family Photo Without Killing Your Family

A great family photo for a holiday card or your living room shelf is a keepsake to treasure.  But getting there can make you go a little crazy.  We've got ideas to keep you sane during...

What's In Your Library?: Founder of Momstamp and Mom of 4 Paulette Light shares the childhood mementos that stood the test of time

We were already in awe of Paulette Light's ability to make parenting a brood of 4 kids seem easy when we learned about her amazing company, Momstamp.  It's basically an Angie's List for all the things...

8 Tips for Getting Kids to Write Thank You Notes

  Honey, Did My Package Arrive? The Dreaded Thank You Note.   Call us old-fashioned, but we are firm believers in the thank you note. Not the Internet dashed off e-mail, not a text, but an...