Time Capsule

Over the years I've had some really neat discoveries while I was doing some remodeling

work. Now what happened? Well I would be tearing apart a wall doing some demolition work and all

of a sudden we would find something. Check out some of the neat things that I have found and

kept over the years. This is a cigarette case. It's got a date of August 3rd 1909 and check this out

no surgeon general warning. Really a neat item. I'm sure it's a collector's item so I keep it in

in very good shape. Here's an old Huitipole Brewery bottle. I'll bet you this thing is about

100 years old. And I've got another one I found in another job that's the Houck Brewery here in

Cincinnati, Ohio. It is really a gorgeous beer bottle. And they are really thick glass. And I

had a lot of fun finding them. Another great thing we find from time to time, just old newspapers

So what I want you to do on your upcoming new home job, or maybe it's a remodeling job, I want you

to make a future carpenter happy. How are you going to do it? You're going to make your own time capsule of sorts

Here are some of the things that you can use to do it with I prefer to use the daily newspaper It as simple as that If you can get one of the national newspapers that would be fun and you want to include the entire paper And believe me it going to be really funny to read this thing 80 or 90 years from now

Make sure you save the Sunday Inquirer, and I'll tell you why. The Sunday Inquirer's got a lot of neat things in it

Imagine how people are going to laugh years from now when they see they could have bought in the year 2002 a sofa for $599

nine bucks, probably 50 years from now it's going to be five thousand dollars. So make

sure you put that in there. Finally, just odds and ends. Go ahead and put some of your

own bottles in. Whatever soft drink bottles you may find. They're colorful. Make sure

you rinse them out before you do it. And here's one of our modern beer bottles. And other neat

things. Maybe you've got an old electronic toy of your kids that doesn't work anymore

Throw that in the wall. I like to use a Ziploc bag to protect some of the things that might

get damaged, you know, down the road. Simply go ahead and put this treasure in the wall

and you know what? You'll probably make some builder or remodeler very happy in the future

I'm Tim Carter, Ask the Builder. If you want to discover more home improvement tips, go to askthebuilder.com