Most months slip past without us noticing them. For $19, one envelope a month makes sure you catch the one you are in.
I ask every new client the same question. Tell me one thing you did last March. Not a birthday or a trip, just an ordinary afternoon.
Almost nobody can answer. Her phone holds thousands of photos from that month and she cannot recall a single day of it. The months did not stop mattering. Nothing was marking them.
That is the job of this envelope. It lands on the first Friday, and the month has a beginning again.
Think about what comes to your door now. Statements, catalogs, a flyer for gutter cleaning. None of it was made for you.
This is a sage green envelope addressed to you, filled and sealed by hand. I tell clients to leave it on the counter for an hour before they open it. Anticipation is part of the gift, and there is so little of it left.
Every envelope starts with a short letter about the month you are in. September's was about why that month always makes us want to begin again, even decades after the last first day of school.
It ended on a line I have repeated to clients ever since: “There is no finished version of you waiting at the end of all this.” Then it swapped the usual question, what do I need to accomplish, for a better one. What am I becoming?
My whole method fits in a sentence: write one true line a day. The hard part is never the writing. It is the blank page asking what to say.
Each envelope carries a card of journal prompts. September asked, “What is one thing I’m currently letting go of?” That is exactly the kind of question I would give a client on a Monday morning. The prompts work in any journal you already own.
Writing about your life works better when you are living some of it. September's envelope included a short bucket list for exactly that.
Take a walk somewhere you have never walked before. Buy yourself flowers. Call someone you have not talked to in a while. None of it costs much, and every item hands you something worth writing down that night.
Every print is designed by Still Archive's in-house artist, and no two months are alike. September's was green hills under a sky of blue stars, with a black cat asleep on a red rug.
A sheet of stickers comes from the same hand. That month it was a fig, a strawberry and a little tree, made for the pages of a journal. The print is made for a frame, or at least a spot on the fridge where you will see it every morning.
It costs less than a lunch out. $19 a month with free U.S. shipping, and the Founding Member rate is locked in for life.
It is a monthly subscription: you are charged when you join, then on the 1st of each month. Envelopes ship the first Friday. Join before the 15th and you get this month's; on or after the 15th, your first one is next month's. Cancel, skip, or pause anytime from your account.
An original art print, an exclusive sticker sheet, journal prompts, and 2 to 3 seasonal extras that change each month. Every piece is designed and packed by hand by our in-house artist, so no two months are alike.
$19 a month with free U.S. shipping. That is the Founding Member rate, and it is locked in for life.
Envelopes ship the first Friday of every month. Your first one ships the next Friday after you join: join before the 15th to get that month's edition, or on or after the 15th to start with next month's, mailed on its first Friday. Each one is mailed by hand, so allow a little extra transit time.
You are charged when you join for your first envelope, then on the 1st of every month after that, so the whole club stays on one simple schedule.
Yes, anytime, from your account on our site. Skips and pauses take effect the following month.
No. The prompts and stickers work in any journal, and the letter and art print stand on their own.
Because each edition is made and set aside by hand ahead of time, Mail Club orders are non-refundable once an envelope has shipped. You can cancel before your next charge anytime.
