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We're building a new home, and it's at the stage just before the dry wall goes up inside. We only have a day or two before all the walls are sealed up.
A thought came to my mind this morning: would it be cool/neat to put something in a wall before it is sealed up forever?
I don't know what we might want to put in a wall, but this is sort of an unique position to be in. We want to live in this house at least until our children are grown and moved out, and maybe till we die.
So, what ideas can you come up with for something to place in the wall of our home? I thought about maybe a red paper heart with all our family names on it. Kind of sappy.
Whatever it is, it would never be seen or found, but we'd know it was in there, forever.
One of those Goodman Games 2 dollar modules or a cheap used one from your FLGS, wrapped in plaster to protect it for the day adventurers loot your walls.
1) 1 copy each of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and "A Cask of Amontillado."
I vote for this... So long as you write "Property of James Hoffa" on the inside of the front covers.
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Make a time capsule. Take a cookie tin (or something similar), write your names on the outside somewhere and the date when it was put in the wall, then put little trinkets inside that made you think of your life around that time. Photographs of your family, maybe. You could even take a photograph of the tin inside the open wall before it's sealed up. If you have kids, have them put a favorite toy inside (preferably something that they loved in the past but no longer play with - make sure they know they are NOT getting it back). Perhaps have each member of your family write a little note about what the house looks like now and what you expect it to look like in X years.
Maybe put it in a section of wall that would be fairly easy to saw open and re-sheetrock and plan to open it up in 50 years or so. Maybe even write "time capsule" on the wall somewhere subtle (like behind a floorboard or under wallpaper). Or just put it in and forget about it and hope you or future owners come across it during renovations at some point.
Imagine that you're living in an old house and you decide to do some renovations so you break open a wall, and a canister falls out with a date of 50 years ago on it. What would be excited to find in such a container? Put that sort of stuff in your time capsule.
You might want to make sure that everything in that capsule is waterproofed. Put paper things in ziplock bags and suck all the air out before you fully seal it. You might even want to get things laminated (if that'll still let them fit in whatever sort of capsule you have. You don't know what's going to happen to that wall in the future, so try to make sure whatever you put in there will last through a number of disasters.
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When my family remodeled our home many years ago, we ripped out part of the exterior wall and found an old coke bottle. Kind of a thrill, even though it had no real meaning. I think my parents still have it. So this is a cool idea.
Assuming you've sealed things up already, what did you put in?
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Assuming you've sealed things up already, what did you put in?
Sadly, the drywall went up the next day, faster than I could convince my wife that putting something in the wall would be interesting/cool/fun/not a waste of time. So, I failed.
1) 1 copy each of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and "A Cask of Amontillado."
Heh. I didn't post in this thread because the first thing that came to my mind was a mummified cat. There's just something about walling things up that makes me think of Edgar Allen Poe.
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I vote for this... So long as you write "Property of James Hoffa" on the inside of the front covers.
That is just twisted...I approve!
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that would be very creative idea ,i like it .you could discuss with your family .to know that do they want to do .in my mind ,i want to put my family's hope and a family protrait in it.
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