This is so helpful! I'd love to entertain more and definitely need to build a collection of better options for guests.

I love how you appreciate photos on this blog when so often digital images just get dumped onto Facebook or a hard drive and forgotten. I'm an archivist, so I just wanted to add a bit of advice -- when choosing storage boxes, envelopes, photo albums, sleeves, etc. for photos, make sure they are acid-free! The word "archival" gets thrown around on packaging but it's not really archival quality unless it's acid-free. It's also a good idea to give all of your digital images good metadata and clear filenames so you don't wind up with thousands of images called DSC#####.