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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I would love to digitize all of the VHS tapes my parents have of my siblings and I!
I would love to have family vacation videos available on dvd. So many great memories with my parents and grandparents.
Childhood family vacations
This is wonderful! My husband and I have talked about trying to find a way to get everything transferred over for keepsakes!
I would love to get all my family’s pictures put on a thumb drive. I would also LOVE to get my husbands baseball games on VHS transferred to DVD. What an awesome giveaway!
This is awesome! I signed up for their mailing list, because I’d love to find some way to get rid of old ice-skating videos. It was my life for decades, but it’s time to get rid of these old VHS tapes!
Thanks for passing along. 🙂
I would LOVE this as a way to save memories of my future newborn (I am due in April!). I already struggle to figure out how to organize all my videos and photos, so I can’t imagine what it will be like when I’m taking pictures every day of my little girl! I would greatly appreciate (and use!) something like this 🙂 :).
i LOVE the idea of gifting this to a parent! I would definitely do this for my mom or dad with our old VHS home movies. Didn’t know a service like this was available, thank you!
I would love to use the credit toward transferring all of my husband’s grandmother’s videos from when he was growing up!
I would love to have my wedding photos transferred into a digital format. When my husband and I got married 12.5 years ago, the option to have digital images was too expensive (digital photography was just becoming a thing) so we have negatives from our wedding. I’m always worried that something’s going to happen to the negatives and I’d lose the images that are so special. Winning a LegacyBox would truly give me peace of mind and make my heart so happy to know our wedding photos are safe forever.
This is so cool! I would love to gift it to my mom.
I have a couple old dance videos I would love to have on DVD. I also have a ton of pictures of my daughter that I would like to preserve.
My parents have the same issue! So many VHS’s that we never watch because we don’t have a video cassette player and no one knows how to transfer them. I would LOVE to surprise them and do this for them!
My mother has some old home movies and pictures that survived our house fire that I would like to surprise her with
I have soooo many pictures I would love to have digitally!
This is awesome. I would love to turn our old VHSs into something more lasting!
When I was in high school, I filmed everything. Family gatherings, my sister’s wedding, driving around with friends, etc. I wanted to be a director and would have my friends put on short skits and funny scenes. An infamous one was where a group of girl friends all brought out our prom dresses and did a mock “Miss Teen USA” pageant. I would love to be able to digitize that and share all these memories with my friends who now live all across the country!
This would be an awesome idea for Mother’s or Father’s day!
I’d love to preserve my HS musicals that are all on VHS!
We found old home movies while moving my Grandmother out of her retirement home that I would love to preserve on DVD.
strongly disagree about videos. Though videos and home movies are fun to watch–it is a total time commitment to do so (which is sparse to start with) and time passes quickly and then you lose the current moment.
I find photos are actually a much better way to preserve memories, with a smattering of small videos included taken on your camera phone or other such stuff. I can’t tell you the last time I watched video of my kids and they are 15 and 12.
joined the mailing list. One of my good friends did this for their parents for christmas and it was such a bit hit. I was already thinking of doing it for my mom’s birthday coming up at the end of the month. Being able to watch all those old videos of my siblings and I growing up would be such a hoot!
I would love to give this to my parents as a gift for all our home videos from when I was a kid!
This would be a great way for me to give my family a treat and surprise them with all the home movies we have. So many loved ones have been lost since those movies were made and it would be a wonderful way to cherish their memories.
I want to preserve my brother and my baby videos!
Thank you so much for sharing this service! I’ve have had an interview with my grandma (who recently passed) from high school that I’ve been wanting to watch for awhile but wasn’t sure how I could do it. Thank you!
What a cool idea! I have heard of this kind of thing before, but I have never heard of this company. Very cool! I, just like you, would like to do this for my mom and dad. They have a ton of home videos on VHS that would be perfect for this! I think it would also be fun to have some from when my husband and I started dating. Thanks for sharing!
My family has a ton of old VHS tapes that this would make converting them into DVDs SO easy! I also have a TON of old photos that I don’t want to see get ruined or faded over the years. Especially ones of family and friends who have passed so my daughter can learn about them when she’s old enough (including her great-grandma that her middle name is after).
My mother would love to digitize a lot of photos and she would also love to transfer all my dance recital tapes to DVD from when I was little!! What a neat idea. Have to check this out. Thanks for the giveaway!!
I have a mix of old photos and videos! Specifically some home videos that are sooooo goofy to watch but I’d hate to lose them and def don’t have a VHS player anymore.
I, too, have been thinking of surprising my mom with this as a gift! We have tons of old videos and pictures that I would love to preserve!
This is such an awesome concept! I have SO many old VHS tapes that need to be converted! I don’t even own a VCR anymore to even watch them!
I’d love to get our old vacation videos onto DVDs!
We have shelves and shelves of photo albums that would be so cool if they were digitally accessible!
We have so many family videos of birthday parties, dance recitals and sports games that I’d love to have digitally formatted! Especially to see my grandpas who are both no longer with us!
I would love to do this for my Dad! He has tons of old tapes that need to be converted to DVD. It would be the best birthday present ever!
Would love to put together a family album for everyone, that would include VHS from grandparents and aunt/uncles along w photos so we can all have some moments in time that have long passed. This would be a great annual tradition to do w family or even every 5yrs. Great idea!!
We have hundreds of photos and VHS of our school plays/musicals.
This is perfect timing! I just bought a house and my mom dropped of BOXES of old photos I had stored at her house. I’d love to get that digital conversion started!
Wow, what a cool idea!! It’s been a loooong time since I’ve looked at any of our old VHS tapes but I bet there are some gems on there I’d hate to lose!
I would love to save all of my parents old pictures onto a DVD. Thanks!!
I would love to do this with all my old photos!!
My Poppop has at least 50 tapes of my cousins and I growing up, he preserved every memory…Christmases, plays, shows we put on in his basement, sporting events, summers at the Jersey shore. My grandparents are in their mid-80’s and one of their favorite things to do is look back on these memories. We ar afraid that the tapes are going to break one of these days, and we have talked for years about converting them to dvd’s as a gift to my grandparents!!
i would love to digitize all of my old photos from my childhood! that would be the best gift for my parents!
I signed up and I have a lot of photos that I would love to be digitized.
My wedding photos! I got married in Greece, and we just have negatives. I would love to have them digitized!
I have been married 28 years & have lots of photo albums & pictures that I would love to have digitized! I also have some VHS tapes that I would love to have converted to DVD! Thanks for an AWESOME giveaway!
I signed up for their mailing list.
Andysavi.Mom@gmail.com
This would be such an awesome present for parents!
I want to preserve all of my family’s embarrassing home videos. 🙂
I joined their mailing list. I have several VHS tapes I would like to convert, but mostly I would like to organize the shoebox full of pictures I have sitting in my desk from when my kids were born! This would be the ideal solution!
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I would love to get my parents old home movies put onto DVDs so we can actually watch them.