If you were in charge of making a time capsule...

[random_thought]

what would you put in it?

 

[random_thought]

Really guys? No responses! Ok I'll start

An ipod (if I had a spare lol)
A Harry Potter book
A copy of the newspaper from that day
A photo of dh and I and our cats
An old cell phone
A photo of my laptop

What about you!

 

[Dancing Fire]

a 5ct D IF diamond.

 

[Rhea]

A decorating magazine
Photo of bridal dress
One of those very large handbags
Time Out London
Massive Attack CD
A few books probably: Cake Wrecks, etc.

Gosh! I'm terrible at this! Is this for my family and life or to represent my community?

 

[doodle]

Lady Gaga
Something relating to McDonalds
A bottle of Coca Cola (I get a kick out of how they change the shape/size of the bottles every few years)
A receipt for groceries so I could compare the prices on staples
A picture of my hometown
A newspaper
A list of the Billboard Top 100
InStyle magazine
A postage stamp
A Barbie Doll
A pack of cigarettes
Baseball card for someone famous (you can tell how well I keep up with sports, huh?)
Currency, one of each denomination, both bills and change

That's all I can think of. I was aiming for stuff that changes somewhat regularly or stuff that's iconic for our time. Man, that was harder than I thought it'd be!

ETA. Um, perhaps I should be more specific and say a Lady Gaga CD, hehe. Something tells me the woman herself wouldn't keep well in a time capsule.

 

[random_thought]

It's not for anything in particular, just for fun I was just thinking about it when I read an article that they found a time capsule in a cornerstone of a building that burned down in the 30's at my university (wow talk about a run on sentence!!!)

 

[dragonfly411]

A George Strait CD
My favorite picture of me and SO so that someone could say "They were really happy at that point in time"
an iphone
A copy of Watership Down
A Picture of a tractor
A key
A picture of the country side, wide open spaces... they are ever diminishing
a feather

 

[Arkteia]

Just family photographs. Starting with the oldest one (1910).

 

[Mara]

Lady Gaga

ETA. Um, perhaps I should be more specific and say a Lady Gaga CD, hehe. Something tells me the woman herself wouldn't keep well in a time capsule.

HA! I was just going to post saying that the first line made me laugh!!! Then I saw your ETA!

 

[Karl_K]

copy of the constitution, 2x colt 1911 and 1500 rounds of ammo and 20 mags.
instructions on how to use it.

 

[monarch64]

To back up Dragonfly's idea about tractors, I would put in copies of my mother's photographs of barns all over the Midwest. She has many pictures of barns dating back to the 1800's with painted advertisements of Mail Pouch tobacco, etc. They are very unique and actually not many are left standing even since she photographed them 15-20 years ago.

On that note, I would put in a 35mm camera, with batteries!

Also, a cordless phone as "our" generation would recognize it--bases included.

A VHS (VCR) recorder, and probably a DVD player.

A digital camera.

A good bottle of wine from the 2000's.

A pack of "flavored" cigarettes, like cloves, which were recently banned in the US.

A photo of President Obama and First Lady Michelle.

 

[kenny]

I would put in copies of my mother's photographs of barns all over the Midwest. She has many pictures of barns dating back to the 1800's with painted advertisements of Mail Pouch tobacco, etc. They are very unique and actually not many are left standing even since she photographed them 15-20 years ago.

I would loooooooove to see some of those pics.

 

[monarch64]

Kenny, I would love to post some here but she's got the negatives catalogued away somewhere and the prints are in frames. Maybe I could try to take pics of the framed ones and post them...I would love to share them here. They are mostly quite good.

One of them was taken of a barn I pass every day on the way to and from work. I work in a very rural area where it is common to pass Amish buggies on the shoulder of the highway and see them selling their produce and wares in parking lots around town. That very barn I am talking about is one that has sort of a story: my mother had both of us kids in the car and decided to pull over onto the shoulder of the highway to get the perfect shot. She ended up tripping and falling on the loose gravel of the shoulder and lost a chunk of her right knee but got the shot and it is as beautiful as the weathered barn with its black backgrounded Mail Pouch mural looks today. I'm glad it is still there but I think of her poor knee every time I pass it!

I owe Treefrog some of her deer pics and now I owe you some of her barn shots. I will talk to her about letting me have some prints to publicize here on PS for you both to see.

It's funny'--she's more of an archivist/historian than a photog, so you may find fault with her photog skills but they are wonderful pics for current viewers to behold. Thank you for your interest, it makes me happy to know that someone else finds that subject matter intriguing.