Ever wonder how long you might be able to get away with squirreling away your photo prints in shoeboxes, on shelves, stashed away here and there all over your house? How long before some poor innocent is buried in an avalanche after unwittingly opening the door of an overstuffed closet? Our friend, photographer Kelli Taylor, decided not to find out.

As a photographer, my life has always been filled with photographs. And as a pack rat, my home has forever been flush with them, too. For years I was overwhelmed with the sheer volume of my prints, and would often keep them in their original photo envelopes, in plastic bags or storage boxes, tucked into any bare space that seemed safe. They hid in drawers, in cabinets, under the bed, and only occasionally in photo albums.

Two years ago, I discovered Kolo Havana Boxes, and have never looked back. Once I rounded up all of those decades-worth of photo envelopes, it took 15 minutes to transfer the shots to the boxes. (I mostly use the medium size that comes with dividers.) The boxes are organized according to year, and I keep them on a shelf in our living room. They're always within immediate reach whenever I feel like creating a new album or laughing over old pictures with guests.

They've also become something of a conversation piece, since people are always curious about what's inside. It's funny how much I treasured those photographs, but for so long, didn't let myself enjoy them after they were taken.

Most people keep a treasure box of one kind or another. It seem’s Kelli’s are archival boxes filled with photographs. Other Koloists have shared a variety of examples of their treasure boxes, such as those you can see here… here… and here.

If you have treasure box, what do you keep inside?