How many of you right this minute, this very instant, have at least 4 dusty shoe boxes {or let’s be honest, IKEA boxes} crammed full of photos under your bed? In the back of your closet? At your mom’s house?
I do.
You don’t really want to know how many photos I have stashed away. My first baby was born in the pre-digital age so I have approximately 1,300 3×5 photos of her in huge boxes under the stairs. {I was too tired to do a baby book for her then, and I’m too busy now} The scant handful of videos we have of Precocious as a baby sit on old VHS tapes; they sit next to our wedding video in a box. Somewhere.
Enter: 1000 memories, a photo service. This company is amazing.
{you want to read all the way to the bottom of this post, trust me on this one}
1000 memories works a couple of different ways. The first is to count and collect all your dusty photos, let 1000 memories know how many you have, and get a box delivered to your door. Put your photos in the box, ship them off, and the trained peeps at ScanCafe scan them very, very carefully. The photos end up in a protected folder online called a Shoebox which you can then share with family and friends, or hog as you wish, and the actual hard copy photos are sent right back to you. If you like your family and friends enough to let them collaborate to say, that unfortunate camping trip to Seattle in February you’re still burning from your memory, they can add their photos to the shoebox as well.What?
It’s seriously that easy.
Here’s where things get awesome for you. 1000memories is sponsoring a giveaway today on Petit Elefant so you’ll want to break out the bad 80’s hair photos right about now. My hair isn’t terrible in this 1st grade photo of me because I was too little to ask for bad hair. By the 4th grade I had a bad home perm {thank you mom!} with specially permed bangs. I just couldn’t share it with you, I need some sense of dignity.
Okay, this is what’s in it for YOU. 1000memories is giving away THREE scanning kits to the best 3 shoeboxes submitted online. The details are below. I can’t wait to hear what you think!
The shoebox challenge:
- From April 2 – 9, breathe new life into some of the amazing photos and mementos hidden away in your old albums, hard drives, and CDs by creating shoeboxes with your favorite photos from the past
- Register for free at 1000memories.com and follow a few easy steps to create a shoebox
- Share your favorite shoebox by posting the URL in the comments section
- On April 9, the 3 best shoeboxes will receive 1 free scanning kit to scan up to 1,000 photos, slides, and/or negatives ($220 value)
Prizing details:
- ScanCafe is the global lead in professional scanning services, having scanned over 65 million photos
- Scanning kits are specially designed packing boxes to ship up to 1,000 photos to ScanCafe’s facility to have them scanned for you. The service has a retail value of $220.
- Each of your photos is scanned by hand by a trained technician. A digital copy is automatically added to a private shoebox on 1000memories
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Allison
Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!
I so need this! Like you, I’ve got boxes and boxes of printed photos in my garage, and I really need to convert them. I would love to try this service.
I made a couple shoeboxes, but my favorite is this collection from my son’s homecoming from Haiti after the earthquake.
http://1000memories.com/shoeboxes/842-kembe-s-homecoming-from-haiti
I’m seriously SO excited about this. Dying, excited about this. Those photos of Kembe coming home make me cry – SO beautiful.
You can’t shock me with your permed bangs. My mom wouldn’t let me perm my hair, so by the 6th grade, I wore her down to at least having my bangs permed. That’s right — with long, blond, straight hair in the back. Party in the front? ;) Help…
Wow, that’s an awesome service/giveaway! I may do this for my grandparents photos that I have for my parents! I’ll go check out their website after I put the sweeties to bed!!
holy cow! there is an iphone app too.
this is so awesome!
thanks!
This is a great idea, although I note from the small print that the photos are shipped to India to be scanned by Scancafe…not so keen on having my photos shipped so far.