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.

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...

  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. ...

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...

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...

  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...

It may seem strange for a site dedicated to preserving memories to say that our number one tip is: Don’t save it.  Throw it out.  But it is core to who we are because part...

Make no mistake, while we make organizational products, we are, fundamentally, in the family memory business, which also means we are in the wistful, emotional, heart-strings-pulling, laugh-so-hard-your-bellly-hurts, cry-like-a-baby business.  The wizards over at Dream Machine...