My Time Capsule

At the end of my birthday night it was time to open my time capsule. I'm pretty sure it was in the 5th grade that we had to put together a small time capsule in class that we would then open on our 30th birthdays. This thing has been sitting in my parents attic for the last 20 years collecting plenty of dust. I waited for the day to finally take it down. Not going to lie I did not assemble the best time capsule, it was kind of disappointing actually, I put some of the strangest things in it.

After many glasses of wine later I had a grand old time opening the random box of crap junk. Some of the more useless items that I put in was a plethora of Kids Newsweek type magazines. It wasn't like one or two, or of something that was a particularly big news event that year. I put in like 30 of these weekly additions. I also put in like 2 notebooks with like 5 pages each filled out. Also on the random list was a Christmas stocking with the words let it snow written on it,  some random children's books, a barbie "poster" along with a barbie doll that clearly was not my favorite judging by her hair our outfit. There was also McDonalds happy meal toys, a troll doll, some random pin, oh there was "Belle" earrings from Beauty & the Beast.

The "best" items in there had to be a paper mache thing that I had made of a "dogfish" - don't ask. A fake spider that we used to chase Matthew around the house with. And a charm necklace when I was really little, but that was about it. I wish I could say there was something in there really exciting or worth saving but there wasn't. Lesson learned for when I help our kids make their own time capsule one day not to put 50,000 newsweek magazines....