St. Louis · Est. 2026

Because every family has a story worth keeping.

We help families sort through boxes of photographs, rescue home movies from tapes no one can play anymore, make sense of a lifetime of belongings, and write the stories down before they're lost.

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PhotographsSorted, labelled, scanned
Home moviesVHS to digital, preserved
OrganizingHome, garage, estates
Legacy writingMemoirs and family histories
A shoebox of old family photographs
Let's
begin
The difference

Organize, preserve, then tell the story.

A box of photographs may lead to a family history. A stack of tapes may hold decades you'd forgotten. An attic may contain the pieces of something worth keeping.

See how it works
Hands sorting loose photographs on a table
Organize Sort the boxes, the shelves, the whole house if that's what it takes.
A stack of VHS tapes waiting to be digitized
Preserve Scan, transfer and back up what can't be replaced.
An open family photo album with handwritten captions
Tell the story Put it into words the next generation can actually hold.
What we do

Four ways we help families hold on to what matters.

01 — Photographs

Photo organization & preservation

From boxes of photographs to a family collection someone can actually sit down with.

  • Sort and organize loose photographs
  • Arrange by date, family or event
  • Label and identify photographs
  • Scan for digital preservation
  • Organize digital collections
  • Albums, photo books, keepsakes
  • Decide what to keep or share

Your photographs shouldn't live in a box forever.

Loose photographs spread across a table
02 — Home movies

Home video & media preservation

Bringing yesterday's memories into technology that still works.

  • VHS-to-digital transfers
  • Digital family-video organization
  • Flash-drive delivery
  • Family memory collections

Those tapes may hold moments you'll never get back.

An old camcorder and VHS tapes
03 — Belongings

Professional organizing

Organizing more than things. Helping you make sense of a lifetime.

  • Downsizing and decluttering
  • Closets, attics, basements, garages
  • Family memorabilia
  • Documents and paperwork
  • Moving preparation
  • Estate-sale preparation
  • Keep, give, donate, sell, discard
  • Coordination with estate professionals

The hard part isn't knowing what to do with things. It's knowing what matters.

Before
A garage with cluttered shelves and items stacked on the floor
After
The same garage with clear floor space and sorted shelving

An actual client garage, before and after.

04 — Stories

Legacy writing

We turn memories and conversations into something a family can keep.

  • Personal memoirs and life stories
  • Family histories
  • Grandparent stories
  • “Letters to My Family”
  • Military and service histories
  • Founder and business histories
  • Church histories
  • Tribute books
  • Family recipe & story books
  • Oral-history interviews

We listen. You remember. We tell the story.

Handwritten letters and a fountain pen
Popular projects

Most families start with one of these.

01

Photo Rescue

For the boxes in the closet nobody has opened in years.

Sort · Label · Scan · Organize · Preserve

02

Home Movie Rescue

For the tapes still on the shelf long after the last VCR went away.

VHS · Transfer · Flash drive · Collection

03

Professional Organization

For a move, a downsize, or a house holding more than one lifetime.

Downsize · Organize · Preserve · Prepare

04

Legacy Writing

For the stories only one person can still tell.

Interview · Write · Publish · Keepsake

Mark Tullis, owner of Memories to Order
About

Meet Mark Tullis.

Some of Mark's favorite memories are of sitting around kitchen tables, listening to older family members and neighbors talk about what life was like back then. Those stories — and the photographs, letters and home movies that hold them — are too valuable to lose.

Memories to Order grew out of that. Mark spent 34 years teaching elementary school, and he brings a teacher's patience to this work: the ability to take a project that feels overwhelming and make it feel manageable. He also brings a background in professional organizing, historical research, writing, event planning, and more than thirty years in theater.

The goal isn't a tidier room. It's memories the next generation can actually reach.

Service area
The St. Louis metropolitan area, and surrounding communities depending on the project.
Where we work
On-site at your home for sorting and organizing; some scanning and writing work happens off-site.
Pricing
Quoted per project, based on material, time and complexity. First consultation free.
Get in touch

Tell us what you're looking at.

There's no wrong place to begin — a single box, a shelf of tapes, or a whole house. The first conversation is just a conversation, and it's free.

Serving the St. Louis metropolitan area
& surrounding communities