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What to put inside our home wall, forever?
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Merkuri
Explorer
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.
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.
freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
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?
Assuming you've sealed things up already, what did you put in?
Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
A human skeleton from the local medical school.
Adult magazines.
A murder confession.
Cheese.
A murder confession.
Cheese.
Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
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.
That is just twisted...I approve!
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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