(Consider yourself warned: If you have not yet seen Amélie -- a French film sensation -- you might not want to watch this clip.)

Irony is, we spend our entire lives trying to accumulate wealth, and in the end, the stuff we really care about quite often has the monetary value of next to zilch. When you come right down to it, what material possessions really matter? What objects might you run into a burning house to save? Furniture? Appliances? Clothing? Probably not. Probably you'd grab the irreplaceable stuff with sentimental value.

Our true material treasures are the things that connect us to loved ones and transport us to another time and place.

Most of us save keepsakes in some kind of little box. And it's not always just the items in the box that matter; often we have a fondness for the box itself -- how many times have you seen a child play with the box instead of the toy that came in it? Our box fascination starts early.

Case in point, the designers at Kolo were so taken with the clean and functional design of old-fashioned hinged-lid cigar boxes, they were inspired to create the Kolo Havana Box. It quickly became a best-seller, and now people around the globe are using these to hold not just photos, but all sorts of things.

Whether cardboard shoe box, ornate lacquered box, carved, varnished wood, inlaid mother-of-pearl... they all serve the purpose of enclosing a small space into which we may place and keep, well, stuff we love.

What's in your treasure box, and how and where do you keep it?