Have you ever made a timecapsule?

in the 3rd grade, i put like clothes and some action figures and my parents and grandparents put letters for me to read 5 years later. i opened it and my grandma died and i now have that letter framed.

Yeah, but I have no idea what I put in it or where I put the timecapsule itself…and that was only about a decade ago (I’m a teenager).

Yes, my class made one near the end of the school year in 1978. A steel box with our school’s name and “Mrs. Cole’s 3rd Graders, Room 213, 1978” painted on. Not to be opened until 2078. There’s a patch of greenery in front of the school where I believe it’s still buried.

We put in a couple of 45s (that’s two songs on both sides of a thin, grooved black plastic disc for you youngsters. snort!). I would guess the music was by the Village People, something from the Grease soundtrack, or something by the Bee Gees. Those were the big hit makers that year. I do remember an Encyclopedia Brown book going in. I think I put in one of my stories, but everyone put in something personal – my class was small, maybe 15 kids. Some photographs of a field trip and a class photo. A newspaper. A TV Guide. Some other things that I’ve forgotten.

We did in 5th grade. as far as I know it’s still buried in the woods outside the school.

If I did make one, I’d hope that one day in years to come Amélie would find it and track me down to anonymously return it.

I live in a 100 year old house, and there’s a gap in the dining room where the wainscotting doesn’t meet the plaster wall. For the 26 years we’ve lived in the house, I’ve been dropping things into the gap. Pictures of the family, notes, coins, baseball cards. All small, flat things. If anyone ever pulls the woodwork off the wall, they’ll find remnants of our family.

@alfredaprufrock we have the same sort of thing in our house! I never thought of it as a time capsule, thought.

Unintentionally. And it had perishable stuff in it. X-0~~~