In the days before mirrors, baseball players would collect their own baseball cards so that they'd always know what they looked like. Enjoy the preservative nature of photographs with today's Groupon: for $75, you get a 1-2 hour in-home photography session from Pixie Photography and Design (a $194 value). There is an additional fee for customers more than 20 miles outside of ZIP code 06092.

With a focus on candid photographs, Pixie Photography and Design captures unstaged glimpses of infants, children, and families, producing pictures with far more character than mundane sit-and-smile shots. Assemble your kids or clanmates for a one-to-two hour shoot for up to four people that includes editing, retouching, online access to an average of 30 photos, one 5”x7” print, and one 8”x10” print. Using natural lighting and active sessions, Pixie can encapsulate in image form the tranquility elicited by a cuddly blanket, the amazement incited by floating bubbles, and the confusion caused by quantum-physics equations. All the shutterbuggery occurs in and around the comfort of the client's home, rather than in a stuffy studio filled with leftover cheeses and razor-sharp tripods.