diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 35f4d96..7760481 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ ELPA (or Marmalade).")
   "Users of Emacs Prelude are encouraged to keep their personal configuration
 changes in this directory. All Emacs Lisp files there are loaded automatically
 by Prelude.")
+(defvar prelude-snippets-dir (concat prelude-dir "snippets/"))
+(defvar prelude-personal-snippets-dir (concat prelude-personal-dir "snippets/"))
 
 ;; add Prelude's directories to Emacs's `load-path'
 (add-to-list 'load-path prelude-modules-dir)
diff --git a/modules/prelude-editor.el b/modules/prelude-editor.el
index f78840d..0844f76 100644
--- a/modules/prelude-editor.el
+++ b/modules/prelude-editor.el
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@
 ;; load yasnippet
 (require 'yasnippet)
 (yas/initialize)
+(add-to-list 'yas/snippet-dirs prelude-snippets-dir)
+(add-to-list 'yas/snippet-dirs prelude-personal-snippets-dir)
 
 ;; Helm makes finding stuff in Emacs much simpler
 (require 'helm-config)
diff --git a/personal/snippets/.gitkeep b/personal/snippets/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29