When you become new parents, people inevitably give you tons and tons of advice. Some of it is incredibly valuable and words of wisdom you take with a grain of salt. One piece of advice we received from a bunch of people was to take plenty of videos of Chase.
They told us his first year will pass by in a flash (if the first five months of his life are any indication, this could not be more true) and before you know it, we would have a hard time remembering what his adorable early morning squeaks and coos sound like.
I’m trying my best to stay on top of videoing our baby boy but I already feel like I’ve missed some moments I wish I would’ve captured! I’m beginning to realize that as a mom it’s impossible to take too many pictures or videos of your baby.
I feel lucky that taking short videos of our baby these days is so simple. Since my phone is typically close by at all times, capturing a quick video on my iPhone is a breeze and Ryan and I already have way too much fun looking back over the videos of Chase when he was a newborn and seeing how much he has changed.
My mom was always pretty good about taking videos of our family as my sister and I grew up, but unlike videos today, all of her videos are stored on VHS tapes that take up a ton of space. And guess what? We never watch them because I’m pretty sure no one in my family has had a VHS player for years.
Enter Legacybox!
Legacybox is a service that digitally preserves old videos and photos. They can take any format (tapes, film, photos, audio cassettes) and transform them into archival DVDs or optional thumb drives and a fancy schmancy Legacybox for storage.
And the process could not be any easier!
Here’s how it works:
- Purchase a Legacybox and once it arrives in the mail, fill it with your memories. Tapes, photos, etc. Whatever you have, they can make it work!
- Place the provided barcode stickers on your tapes or onto the outside of a bag if you are sending in photos.
- When your box is ready, you can simply hand it to your mailman or take it to the post office. Every Legacybox kit comes with a pre-paid shipping label.
- In a few weeks, your memories will arrive at your doorstep on DVDs or optional thumb drives.
(You also receive all of the originals back, just in case you wish to keep them as well.)
I initially wanted to surprise my parents with DVDs of our home movies, but locating their family videos required me actually asking them for their tapes. Even if the end result wasn’t a surprise, I think my parents were still thrilled with the result! The quality was fantastic and all of the DVDs came labeled according to the labeling on the VHS tapes we sent in.
My mom said she’s planning on utilizing Legacybox to transfer the remainder of her VHS collection to more storage and viewing-friendly DVDs and I’d love to send in some of the old photos I have from when Ryan and I first started dating that were all taken on disposable cameras.
Even though the holidays are over, I think digitizing old photos or videos would be such a wonderful Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gift, especially for the “hard to buy for” folks out there!
Legacybox Discount and Giveaway
And now here is your chance to try Legacybox for yourself!
The first 50 PBF readers to order their own Legacybox will receive 40 percent off. Simply click here to get started.
Also, one lucky reader will win a $200 credit toward their Legacybox order. To enter this giveaway, please click here to join the Legacybox mailing list (don’t worry, they won’t be annoying!) and then leave a comment on this blog post to let me know what memories you would love to have Legacybox preserve for you! Do you have some old VHS tapes you’d like converted to DVDs? Is there a stash of old photos in your house you’d love to have digitized? Please let me know!
I will randomly select a winner on Friday.
Good luck!
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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Legacybox, however I am not receiving commission from any orders placed. Thank you so much for your continued support!
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What a cool service! We have lots of old videos and photos that I’d love to have digitized!
I would love to get all my dads childhood home videos done. He has been dying to do something with them for a while so this would be great!
I would love to preserve memories of my younger sister and I. She is now a teenager and it would be amazing to keep memories of her as she goes through high school and enters college.
This is such a great product! My parents have tons of VHS videos of myself and my siblings that they would love to convert, plus some old pictures of family that would be nice to convert as well.
I have lots of vhs tapes I’d love to get preserved!
I would love to get the VHS tapes of my husband’s favorite childhood memories made into DVD’s! What a great way to be able to preserve history. Thanks for sharing this with everyone! Xoxo
I have been looking at photo digitization services, but have been reluctant to sign up for one because of the price. This would help me put the family photos in digital format like I’ve been wanting to for months!
This would make a great mother’s day gift. Thanks for the idea!
Love this! We have so many videos of us growing up: swim meets, backyard parties, holidays! I would be amazing to watch these again, especially since my dad passed away and he was the one who took all the videos. It would be great to hear his voice again!
I’m going to order a box for sure. I’ve heard of this site but getting your recommendation sealed the deal. I’ve got VHS tapes my son sent every 3 months after their first child was born, up through about 3 months into the life of their second daughter. I lived in another state and watched the tapes again and again. Soon after that we all gave up our tape players and I’m so looking forward to seeing the images again. In fact, now that I live close to them, and can watch at their house, I plan to share the DVDs with them just as they shared the original tapes with me.
I can hardly wait.
I have some videos my mom has on VHS of when I was a toddler that I would love to put onto DVD 🙂
My parents house is filled with boxes of me and my sisters’ childhood photos that I’d love to digitize
All of my baby photos as well as my baby’s photos!
ohh i love this! This would make a great gift for my parents. I have quite a few VHS tapes from my childhood days that my parents would love to have on DVD and lots of pictures too! Thanks for sharing about this website, I had no idea you could do this!! 🙂
I have many memories stored in boxes all over… my basement, my parent’s attic, my old room…after moving so many times in my life, I would love to have a way to condense all my memories in one place so I could have them with me at all times. Such a great idea.
love tapes of high school dances and proms
We have TONS of VHS tapes of my family and I at the lake that I would just love to have put on DVDs so we can actually watch them 🙂
This would be a great gift for my mom. How cool!
This is amazing! I Legacybox during the holidays but was too late to do anything about it! I would love nothing more than having my wedding video converted into a user-friendly DVD! It’s currently on some small weird tape from an old camcorder and we need 35 cords to actually hook it up to a TV! Thanks!
My Grandmother just recently passed away and we spent a lot of time going through her storage unit. We have found boxes upon boxes of pictures and records all the way back to the late 1800s. I’d love to be able to preserve those for future generations!
My parents did an excellent job of taking pictures and videos of my sister and I growing up. I would love to have a way to get these preserved.
I have several VHS tapes, one of which includes the “highlight reel” of my high school basketball games that was sent to college coaches, that I have been wanting to get converted for years so I can show my husband and nieces.
I would love preserving our childhood photos! My mom was big on taking pictures!
I think my dad would LOVE this idea! He’s sorting through a whole bunch of his old family photos right now!
I joined their mailing list! Oh my goodness! I have old photos – back to the early 1900s or earlier that I would LOVE digitized! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
ErinLoves2Run at gmail dot com
I would love to do this for my mom for mother’s day. We recently lost our grandmother (and my mom’s mom) and I think if we could document some of our memories in a more accessible format, it might help to bring back her memories and to do so electronically would make it that much easier and special. What a wonderful concept.
I’d LOVE to win this giveaway so I can do the same thing you did and digitize my family’s old home videos!
I’ve been wanting to preserve old family videos — the tapes are just collecting dust in my mom’s basement! I know my whole family would appreciate this service so much.
This is such a cool idea! I would love to gift this to my parents to preserve all the old home videos and photos!
I’d love to do this for my parents. They have boxes of VHS tapes because they taped EVERYTHING when my brother and I were little.
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I’ve got SO many VHS tapes from when we were growing up! I’d love to have them made into DVD’s!
I would get DVDs made of my husband’s and my own childhood! We could then get all of our wedding pictures, engagement pictures, and shower pictures on 1 DVD.
I’ve been wanting to convert our VHS for so long! My parents have at least a dozen videos of my gymnastics meets and practices from over the years so I’d love to have those on DVD.
I’d get all the old VHSs from when I was young done!
I’d love to get the old videos of my brother and me converted for my parents. They videotaped everything and the basement is full of boxes of videos we can’t watch.
My daughter’s have just flown the nest and we have many tapes of their childhood that I would love to put on a device like Legacybox provides where it can be viewed easily.
I have boxes and boxes of old VHS tapes and photos that I’d love to have digitized. But the one I would especially love to have done is the one of my grandparents, mom and aunt singing some songs my grandfather wrote back in the 1940s.
I would give this to my mom so she could save all our home videos and old pictures!
I got my parents a Legacy Box for Christmas. We just sent their tapes out on Sunday. But even the big box wasn’t enough for all our memories! Fingers crossed that we can convert the rest work that credit!
I’d love to put to use all these videos and photos I have of my little boy!
Childhood memories of me and my twin sister.
This would be amazing for my mom. My dad passed away a few months ago and i’d love to have all our old VHS tapes converted to DVDs.
Wow! What a great company! Thanks for letting us know about this wonderful offer!
Thanks Julie!! This makes such a great gift idea ☺
oh my word this could not have come at a better time. My mother passed away last week after a long, tough battle with cancer. My sisters and I have spent the past several days going through vhs tapes and old pictures of my momma. This would be amazing to make for my dad and my sisters to be able to watch whenever we want to. Great giveaway! Thank you.
I would love to do this for my parents! There are so many old VHS tapes that they haven’t watched for years and I know they would love to have those memories more easily accessible.
I would love to get my sister and I’s home videos digitized!
My mom has been wanting to turn our old VHS tapes of my sister and I as children into DVDs for the longest time! This would be so perfect!
This is perfect for old home movies!
My mother has a ton of vhs tapes from when my brothers and i were little and she would love to be able to transfer them so that my children can view them.