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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This is so cool! I have old home movies u haven’t watched in years because we don’t have a vcr. I would love to watch old family vacations
My parents have so many home videos of us kids growing up that I would love for them to have on DVD so that they (and I!) can enjoy them. What a cool idea!
I’ve been meaning to do this forever! I need to get my childhood VHS transferred to DVDs!
How cool! I’d love to have the VHS tapes from my childhood turned into DVDs!
My parents recently got their VHS converted to DVD, and got a surprise when someone else’s trip footage was actually on the DVDs. Looks like this bar code system would prevent an annoying mix up like that.
what a great idea!! we have way too many fun memories of vacations, church performances, everything!
I’d love to have all my old recital tapes converted. My husband had it done for me as a surprise, but it wasn’t done very well, so I still have all the VHS tapes that I can’t bear to part with!
Awesome service!
i would love to win
This would be perfect! We have sooo many old VHS tapes. The best are of Christmas mornings growing up! So funny too!
Box and boxes of photos that would be so much nicer on DVD or jump drives. Thank you for the giveaway!
My mother recently gave me a Christmas gift of my old VHS tapes converted to DVDs. My fiance and I have been really enjoying looking back on my memories and moments as a baby and young child! But now we need to get his converted so we can compare the two different children we see on screen. I was a golden child and he was a terror…hahaha. But we need to see his videos to really compare! That’s what I would use the LegacyBox for.
What a fabulous idea! I’d love to get all my baby pictures and family videos digitized!
I would like to get my wedding photos preserves. They are still all on the files from the photographer
My family has a ton of home movies on VHS tapes that I would love to have turned into DVD. My little one is 16 months and I would love to safely preserve the memories of my childhood to share with him when he is older!
Oh man I totally need to do this. My mom has so many VHS taps from our childhood!
This is great! I have tons of old family movies on VHS with no VCR to watch them 🙁
I have always wanted to do this as we have several tapes of home videos (holidays, sports, etc.) and all of my dance recitals on VHS that we can no longer watch!
I have so many home videos I would love to convert as a gift for my parents. 🙂
My husband has a lot of VHS tapes of soccer memories, so I would love to preserve these for him!
My parents lost their second child when he was 3 days old and the only keepsakes they have of him are one photo and his birth/first few days on a VHS tape. Since VCRs are a thing of the past, they can no longer watch the only video they have of their only baby boy. I’d LOVE to get the VHS converted to a DVD for them to be able to watch the only memories they have of their son’s life!
how fun! I would love to see my family vacations and watch all the videos of the sports my sibling and I played!
I would love to copy over some of my old vhs’s with family videos and memories for my Mom!
My father in law has early on-set dementia. My daughter is his only grandchild and he adores her; she adores him as well. I would love to preserve the memories he’s made before she was born to show her when she’s older – as well as the ones they are creating together now.
On an off topic note – have you heard of Tinybeans? Best recommendation for keeping up with photos and videos of your little one on a daily basis I have ever heard. And it’s free. 🙂
I’ve been looking for a way to do this!!! I would love to get all my old home movies converted to a dvd for my parents to have! Nothing could be more special
What a great idea! We don’t have too many videos of my siblings & I growing up which makes them all the more precious! One I remember seeing is all of us dancing around the living room to some 80s music 🙂
This would be a great Valentine’s day gift for my mom. We have so many VHS tapes of holidays, swim meets, and special occasions growing up. I would also love to digitize some old family photos we have of my Grandma!
It’s my parents 40th anniversary this summer, would love to preserve their wedding video and photos!
my parents have a huge drawer of old photos and vhs tapes and they are totally disorganized. It drives me crazy because it’s impossible to find anything. I have been thinking if trying Legacybox, it would be the most perfect gift for my dad’s birthday this year!
Hi!
I am ordering Legacy box as Valentines gift for my husband. Going to send in his old baseball videos.
I have a ton of old photos and VHS tapes that I would love to organize!
Great idea! I would love to do this for my mom with all of our old photo albums. I think it would be a great Mother’s day present from the 3 of us kids 🙂
id love to take all of the photos that my mom has in a wooden box and have legacybox work their magic!!
My dad is the king of VHS tapes, so I would love to transfer some of them onto DVDs so we could enjoy them more often!
I need to have our old VHS tapes from when my son was a newborn transferred to DVD!
there are so many choices, I’m sure if I won this giveaway i’d find many valuable memories to update!
Wow! What a great concept! I would love to get all our old family VHS tapes of vacations, recitals, and birthdays digitized! You’re so right–we have a collection of VHS tapes just chillin’ in the entertainment center, which we carry with us from move to move, yet we don’t even have a VHS player anymore to play the tapes if we wanted to! Digitizing the memories, especially in such a convenient way, would be the ultimate solution!
Julie,
I would LOVE a chance to win this giveaway. Our mom passed away last year and we have a box of all our family home videos sitting in our garage.
On top of that my sister is pregnant with TRIPLETS and it would be a great way to share our mom with them as they grow older.
Cheers,
Molly
I would LOVE to have all my parents VHS tapes digitized! Like yours, we have no easy way to watch them anymore and this would be such a great anniversary gift for my parents. I love home movies!
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Would love to have my treasured memories of Dad so easily accessible when I celebrate his life every Memorial Day.
My Mom and Dad have a TON of home videos from when my brothers and I were growing up. Every Christmas Eve we watch them, but it is annoying trying to find a VCR to play them. This would be perfect for us to have easy access to watching all our home movies!
This is so cool! There are a bunch of VHS tapes at my mom’s house from when my sister and I were little. They never get watched anymore because none of us own VCRs!
My mom has so many albums full of pictures from when my siblings and I were little. They are starting to get so worn and I know this would be the most incredible gift to get them all digitalized for her!
I also would love to convert my childhood DVDs and my parent’s wedding video from VHS to DVD for them!
This is such a fantastic idea! I can’t tell you how many times my parents have wondered what to do with all of our old photo albums and home movies. I think I would definitely give this as a gift to my mom and dad to utilize.
I’d love to have the tapes of my brother and I as kids preserved for my parents (:
My husband has three brothers and his parents have tons of home videos on VHS of all the boys growing up. It would be awesome to be able to have all those memories put on dvd’s!
This is really cool! My parent’s anniversary is coming up, so this would be a fun gift to give them! We have TONS of videos from when we were kids that I know they would prefer to have on DVDs.
What a great idea! It is my parents 40th anniversary this year and I would love to surprise them by converting all their old pictures from our childhood. My Mom keeps mentioning wanting to burn the pictures to discs but is intimidated by the idea! Thank you for sharing!
I have SO many videos that I made while in high school of my friends and I that I would love to have on DVDs!! I always want to watch them to and reminisce, but don’t have a VHS player, this would be great!