This post is sponsored by Legacybox but the content and opinions expressed here are my own.
Both my husband and I were both born in the early 1980’s, long before everything went “digital”. When we were kids our parents captured memories and special moments while carrying around cameras loaded with film and clunky camcorders packed with VHS tapes. Nothing was instant. No one had fancy cell phones to snap a million photos with until they got it just right. When you wanted to see the photos you had taken, you dropped your film off at the drug store and you had to wait a few days before you could pick them up. Once you got them home, the good photos would inevitably end up in a photo album.
I always loved looking through old photo albums of our family. I loved seeing pictures of my parents when they were kids, of my grandparents when they were still only just parents, and of other familiar faces from before my time. The photos always helped to tell the story of where it all began. Of what life was like in the past.
On my birthday, shortly after my husband and I first started dating, he gifted me my first digital camera. Of course it was nothing like the digital camera that I own now, but at the time it was so fancy. We used it to snap photos and document the memories of all of the places we went back then… trips across the country to visit friends, special moments, even our honeymoon. Pictures of things I never want to forget and dreamed of someday showing to our children.
I opened a big box in our basement awhile back, and it was full of old photo albums and video tapes. Photos from back when both my husband and I were kids, from high school and college… before we had met. There were old video tapes from we played sports in high school, along with a slew of other recorded memories. The box also contained albums full of those photos of us before we became parents. I brought them upstairs and my two oldest kids were instantly interested to look through them. I was thrilled to see them so excited to be learning about their parent’s lives before they came to be.
Preserving these memories has always been a worry of mine. What if the photos somehow got ruined and we didn’t have back-up copies? What if VCRs someday become completely obsolete? How would we watch these old tapes? How could we continue to share the story of us with our children without a safe way to maintain the integrity of them? Then I discovered Legacybox.
Legacybox is an easy and affordable way to preserve all of your irreplaceable memories by converting your old tapes, photos, and even film into preserved digital files. Legacybox sends you a kit in the mail with all of the instructions and items that you need to send them all of your media (up to 19 types) and then they convert them into digital files for you. It’s a simple as adding stickers that have barcodes on them onto your media, packing it into a box, and affixing a prepaid shipping label. Once they receive your package, they digitize everything to thumb drives, digital downloads, DVDs, then send it back to you along with all of your original stuff. It makes all of those cherished moments so much easier to access and share.
I no longer worry about how we will continue to share our story with our children. Thanks to Legacybox we’ve been able to sit and watch old videos together and many of our fondest memories now have a safe place.
Do you have old memories that you’d like to preserve? You can save 40% off of your first order with Legacybox with the code: CHERISH
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