Decluttering Tools to Organize Your Family Memories for Peace of Mind
Decluttering your home is never a one-and-done task, is it? The right tools and an organizing system will help you corral the stuff you gather and keep your home feeling comfortable and keep you distressed. How many times have you seen bills, sticky notes, and other papers scattered across your home office desktop but figured […]
Here’s the Best Way to Organize and Preserve All Your Photos, Videos, and Other Memories
Decluttering and organizing your home reduces your stress and boosts your personal quality of life. Clean up clutter and you’ll reduce stress and boost your self-esteem, as noted by a New York mental health expert, linked to in the article at the end of this post. Closets, garages, and family rooms or spare bedrooms get […]
Here’s Why Photo Coaching is a Unique and Profitable Home Business Worth Building
Here’s why I chose photo coaching as a home business that’s been profitable for me and my family: I remember the feeling of leaving the corporate world with its structure and entering the new world of being a stay-at-home mom with my toddlers. My husband and I knew the arrangement would be best for our […]
How to Easily Know What Photos and Videos You Have Stored … and What You Need
Do you ever wonder what types of photos and videos you’ve already taken? Keeping an inventory of your memories is tough if one of the kids or grandparents hasn’t recently been in person at a holiday, like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or the 4th of July. Even if your kids are still young in middle […]
Organize, Store, and Share Your Photos with the Ones You Love
Make organizing and storing your photos a family-wide project, and enjoy doing it during special times like anniversaries along with special observances and holidays. It’s a year-round activity that can draw you closer together with others. I’ve been writing a lot about researching your family’s history by journaling photos, interviewing family members, and using free […]
A 4-Step Strategy to Research Your Family History and Organize Your Family Photos
Researching your family history goes hand-in-hand with organizing family photos, home movies, and your other media files. Various tools are useful in researching your family history but how do you store the information as you find it? Here’s a strategy for uncovering the people and stories in your family line while also organizing your most […]
Make Your Photos and Video in 2023 Last … FOREVER®
Did you capture some photos and videos of the eventful 2022 holiday season with exceptionally snowy and icy weather in places like Buffalo and Seattle? It wasn’t all fun and sleigh rides with flights delayed around the country and drivers getting stuck in snow drifts. In my previous home of Pasadena, the Rose Parade was […]
How Safely Stored and Well-Organized Photos Bring Hope and Peace of Mind
In the hectic pace of daily life, we often overlook the importance of soaking up meaningful memories with family photos and videos. Until a time of personal crisis strikes and we long for photos and videos to remember the face and voice we knew. Amy Vanden Berg is a good friend and colleague with personal […]
Tips on Organizing and Permanently Storing Your Summer 2022 Photos and Videos
Now that summer 2022 is fading, start preparing to organize your photos and safeguard them permanently. Where? A private, secure digital storage solution that you own and where you can gather your most meaningful memories in one place. Organizing Your Recent Photos and Videos You may have a backlog of photos and videos going […]
How Madelyn Brownell Uses Cloud Storage to Preserve Family Memories
You have photos stored on your phone, or your laptop and you’re wanting to get them all in one place. You also have all those old media files, too, like VHS tapes, slide shows, and more sitting on your shelves. We’re surrounded by computing power yet it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and we can’t figure […]