For $49, today's deal gets you a prepaid photo box (a $149.95 value) that can hold roughly 2,000 photos with the White Glove scan-in-order service (a $48.50 value) from ScanMyPhotos.com, a division of 30 Minute Photos Etc.

Fill the provided ScanMyPhotos.com box with about 2,000 fading memories before shipping it off to be expertly converted into 300 DPI JPEG files that will last a lifetime perched neatly on your hard drive. With the White Glove service, photos can be scanned in a specific order or arranged categorically, depending on the way you bundle the pictures. Read the instructions to ensure that your pics are properly arranged and prepared for scanning. You'll quickly receive a DVD of scanned 24-bit true-color images, thanks to ScanMyPhotos.com's speedy same-day scanning, which completes the image-preservation process during the very same diurnal period in which the images are received.

Reviews

ScanMyPhotos.com has been featured and received rave reviews in the New York Times in 2008, and Los Angeles magazine named ScanMyPhotos.com as Best Digital Photo Scans in its Best of LA 2009. Barron's just named the company as its Gadget of the Week:

• How valuable is this? Like everyone over the age of 30, we have snaps dating back decades—of relatives, holidays, childhood memories and family gatherings, most hidden away, seldom viewed and effectively forgotten. There were photos taken by our parents and grandparents, along with trips I took and friends I had before I ever met my wife and vice versa, memories we can now share. That's worth a fortune. – Jay Palmer, Barron's
• Fortunately, the results are well worth it. The company ships your original photos back to you by Priority Mail (two or three days), complete with a nicely custom-labeled DVD. It contains standard 300-dots-per-inch JPEG photo files, ready for copying to your computer. –David Pogue, New York Times