What to expect

Every family gets at least two visits at home. How much you do in between is up to you.

FOUNDING FAMILIES

Be one of our first five families.

You get: the full Pile of Pics experience, from the kit to your finished Family Album, at no cost.
I ask: your honest thoughts on the sorting, the labeling, the price and the album, and a few words about what it means to your family.

Free

Up to 500 photos, including the starting fee, both visits and your album.

In return: your honest thoughts along the way. Five families only.

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How it works

  • The Pile of Pics Kit laid out on a table: sorting guide, place envelopes, an occasion bag and who's who cards

    1. Before I come

    A little homework, at your own pace: who’s who, places and special occasions. For prints, your Pile of Pics Kit to sort them, or we sort together. For phone photos, a few settings so your full-size photos are ready to copy.

  • Old prints going through a photo scanner, with a phone copying photos to a small drive

    2. Visit 1: collect and scan

    I scan your prints at your table, fronts and backs. Phone photos copy straight from your phone onto your USB drive. Nothing to install, no account. If you asked for sorting help, we sort together now.

  • A family photo of a backyard barbecue labeled with a place, an occasion and the people in it

    3. Label every photo

    Pile of Pics will organize everything into places, occasions and years, and label each photo with the names on the whos who cards.


  • A lake photo from July 1975 with the question "Where was this taken?" and a list of family places to choose from

    4. Visit 2: questions and stories

    We look through your photos together. You answer my questions, and we record a few of the stories that matter most. I’ll show you how to add more on your own, any time.

  • A Pile of Pics USB tagged with a family's name, next to its folders: Birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Lake trips and a Family Album

    5. Your album

    I bring it to you on a USB labeled with your family’s name: every photo saved in folders, with your recordings and your family album.

  • A sample family album on screen: year books stacked on a table, with occasion photos like Birthday, Easter and Christmas beside them

    6. Your family album

    Your photos, arranged like albums on a table, by year, occasion or place. Search a name, add stories, make scrapbooks. Keep it, add to it, share it. No subscription.

How much do you want to do?

Pick what fits. You can always change your mind at visit 1.

  • The Pile of Pics Kit: place envelopes, occasion bags, a who's who card and the step-by-step guide

    I’ll sort them myself

    You get the Pile of Pics Kit with a step-by-step guide: envelopes for places, bags for occasions, and a simple way to tell me who’s who.

    Lowest price

  • Photos sorted at a kitchen table into labeled place envelopes, occasion bags and who's who cards

    Help me sort them

    We sort together at your table, or I sort for you. Help is by the hour, and you’ll know the estimate before we start.

    $60 an hour

Booking visits for November

Email is the easiest way to reach me: support@pileofpics.com. Tell me roughly how many photos you have and what town you’re in, and I’ll suggest a November date.

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