What are some things you can think of that kids of today will never experience? Ok, so I finally saved enough money to buy my very first car. I knew there was no way my parents would buy me a car. I wanted to look cool. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to have a car by my 16th birthday too, just like everyone else. It was nothing fancy, but I was proud not necessarily because I had a car, but because I worked hard helping my parents with chores at home, and at my job to save enough money to buy an old ’87 white Ford Tempo. My work ethic has not stopped, and I am forever grateful to my parents for that. I have learned so much from my good old days.

One day I was on my way to youth group at church, and my car died. Does anyone remember the days of having to use a pay phone (if you could find a working one), just to call for someone like your dad, to come and save the day? That is exactly what I had to do. I got out of my car, walked a ways down the road to a gas station, and had to use a pay phone. I did not have a convenient cell phone back then.

Remember the Good Old Days

Do you miss the good old days? I know I do. There are many things that come to mind when people just mention the 80’s or 90’s. There were good and bad memories tied into these times. It always starts with a parent or grandparent saying, “I remember when I was a kid…” and then my cousins and I would fill in the sentence saying, “…you walked up the hill both ways to go to school.” Then, that was always followed by a big laugh.

I cannot believe that I am now old enough to be telling stories of ‘the good old days.’ That was never suppose to happen to me. I was suppose to stay young forever. Times really have changed. I remember telling my parents when I was in high-school, “Mom, Dad, if this is how the world is now, what will it be like when I have kids?”  My parents told me later, it was a wise, scary question for a young teenager to be thinking about.

I have always been the person who thinks about the future. The person who makes decisions based on what will be the consequences or rewards, in the future, if I make this choice in my life now. I know not everyone is like that, but when you grow up in a family that does not have much, you tell yourself at a young age that you never want to live like this in the future.

Don’t get me wrong, I am beyond grateful for not having much, because it pushed me more to work hard to acquire much in the future. It seems like in my family who could not afford the latest and greatest video games, time was slower because we were able to concentrate on being more creative with each other. My brothers and I had to come up with creative games to play. We had to learn how to make chores fun, to the point that we ended up wanting to do them for free for our parents out of respect and boredom sometimes.

1. A World Without Cell Phones and Computers

Soon there will no longer be a generation who remembers growing up without cell phones and computers. What a scary thought. Remember when the hashtag sign, actually meant pound. So how long do you think it will take for a phone auto attendant to say push “hashtag” instead of “pound” to reach whomever you are trying to call or your account information. I also remember constant yelling in our house back and forth between my brothers and I, “get off the internet, so I can use the phone.” I am not even going to bring up how long it took to download songs on the internet in the past.

2. Black and White TVs

Who remembers the TV when it was black and white? Who remembers renting VCR tapes, instead of DVD’s? Who would have thought that you can now watch so many movies and tv shows off of your computer, let alone for free now. I remember the saying on the VCR tapes that said, ‘Please be kind, Rewind.’ Hopefully I am not giving away my age too much.

3. A World Without GPS

Who remembers having to pull out the big, bulky folding map or atlas in the car just to find out where you were, let alone where you were going? We did not have GPS back in the past. I guess the long lost joke about a guy never stopping to ask someone for directions is no longer needed, since everyone has a GPS now. Forget about even trying to fold your map back up when you are done. It is so convenient now to just turn your GPS off when you are done using it.

So what stories do you remember of the past? How do you keep these stories alive? Why not try making your own Family Time Capsule with the “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule from http://www.timecapsule.com/product/milestone-collection-any-occasion-diy-time-capsule/. For other fun similar articles on this topic, check out 31 Struggles Kids Today Will Never Understand.

So what do you remember from your ‘good old days’ that kids of today will not experience? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie

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We have been discussing in previous blogs about ideas of who can use a time capsule. If you are human, an organization, business, or pet, or basically anything of importance you can use a time capsule.

Help your hard-working boy or girl scouts review their accomplishments over the past year. Keep your projects or photos of your proud moments, or badges received, in your time capsule. What a special day it will be when you as an adult scout, open your own personal time capsule, to show your son or daughter what your own boy or girl scouts was like.

Yes, your parents are there to teach you lessons, teachers can make an impact on your life, and your youth leader or pastor can help guide you, but your boy or girl scouts can teach you special life hacks and other valuable skills. Hard work and determination help guide you through your journey of becoming a scout.

The Scout Effect

Boy or girl scouts can have a great effect on your life. When I think of a time capsule in general, it is interesting to see how scouting was different in the past compared to today. I never had the opportunity to be a girl scout, however I wish I would have because I am a very down to earth girl. I have talked with friends who were a part of the scouts. They talked about the learning how to start a fire with sticks and how much persistence that took, to receive their camping merit badge.

Why would you let your parent eventually throw that badge away after you grew up and moved out of your parent’s home? Save it in a time capsule. That was a milestone moment in your life. It effected you to be focused, finish what you start, and learn the rewards in life from not quitting. That is a great badge and lesson to pass on to your future children as an example.

For my other friends, the girl scouts have prepared them for their future careers. They were taught how to be confident and have a healthy self-esteem. What great lessons to pass on to their future daughters, using a time capsule.

When to Have Boy or Girl Scout Open the Time Capsule

The unique thing about a scout time capsule is that it can be filled with mementos and treasures that the boy or girl cannot open until they either earn their Eagle or Graduate High school. You pick. It is all up to you as the leader or the scout creating their time capsule. What a fun project for a scout troop to make together.

I know some companies look for great leadership and teamwork, so what better way to pass on these lessons you learned in boy or girl scouts, than with a Baby Time Capsule. Preserve your stories and badges in the time capsule, so when your child graduates high-school, he or she can open it and you can further instill the messages of what you learned in scouts as a way of encouraging the same behaviors and virtues in your grown child, in the real world environment now.

Have the scouts fill out an all about me worksheet, to save basic information about themselves in their time capsules, to read years later. Continue to read about this topic and 10 Things I learned from Boy Scouts at http://geoffreywebb.com/2010/08/03/10-things-i-learned-from-boy-scouts/. Also check out this article of girl scouts who opened a time capsule 16 years later at http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/junior-girl-scout-troops-open–year-old-time-capsule/article_81f8b670-42be-11e3-aee1-001a4bcf6878.html.

What would you put in a scout time capsule? Share your ideas below in the comments please.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie
www.timecapsule.com

Note: Girl Scout Quote Photo taken from http://article.wn.com/view/2014/05/15/READER_SUBMITTED_Panelists_Announced_For_Girl_Scouts_Of_Conn/

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Memories are some of the most special moments we want to treasure forever. That is more difficult for us all, as we get older.

“She just does not seem to be all there anymore. She is forgetting more. She is having a hard time recognizing me as her daughter. She is forgetting my name.” – my Aunt complained to my mother over the phone. My aunt was living in Texas with my grandmother, and my mom (her sister) lives in Indiana. It was heart retching knowing there was very little my mother could do, to help my Aunt and Grandmother, in Indiana.

What To Do To Help the Older Generation

Despite our distance, my grandmother and I were close. She prayed for my future husband for years, wherever he was in life, to be ready for me mentally, emotionally, and physically. Her prayers worked as I found “the one.” How could I ever give back to my grandmother who was an Alzheimer patient. I do not wish this problem, or any other memory disorder, on anyone. It is hard to deal with, as family members let alone being the actual person trying to live through this struggle.

How a Memory Box or Time Capsule Helps

Even though my family lived far away from my grandmother, that does not mean we could not help. We helped my Aunt recall memories, wrote down stories we remembered, recorded our voices, and of course as grandchildren created homemade cards for grandma.

A memory box or time capsule can do a similar function to help. What would you put in a memory box to stir up a loved one’s memory, emotions, and thoughts?

Image taken from http://sheffieldtimewalk.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/manor-memories/

A Memory Box or Time Capsule helps us all Recall the Past

Include things like:

• Newspaper clipping of special events, or marriage announcement

• Postcards of places visited

• Favorite recipes (maybe even take the time then to make the recipe together)

• A letter from each of you as family members thanking your loved one for all he or she has done for you.

• Family photos

• Special necklace or watch your loved one constantly used to wear

• Video of your loved one growing up. Go through the video slowly pausing to say each person’s name (especially if they are family members) to help your loved one recall names with faces.

• Hobbies your loved one usually does (for example: a sample of his or her quilt or a golf ball)

• Include items which an Alzheimer’s patient loves or boosts their self-esteem. Things that give your loved one their identity back.

• A memory box or time capsule can help an Alzheimer’s patient on all sensory levels. Include things that relate to all their senses. For example, maybe include their favorite perfume or cologne in a small bottle.

This is a fun activity to do for the family, as much as it is for your loved one to open the memory box or time capsule. You all get to share sentimental moments with each other, bonding closer and inspiring conversation about the nostalgic items. Whatever you include in your memory box or time capsule, make sure it reflects the senior’s loves, interests, and significant or milestone moments in the history of their lives, and has strong meaning to him or her. You may want to include an inventory checklist of each item you include with a tag on each item with the story associated with each nostalgic memento. This will help your loved one be able to read and review things on their own time too.

If everything goes well, memory boxes are a great means to help an alzheimer’s patient, because when a senior sees one memory trigger, it may help them recall another memory to talk about. You may even find out something new about them, that you had no idea about. To read more about this topic, check out http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/09/music-memory-box

What would you put in a memory box or time capsule for your older loved one, to help them remember better? Comment below.

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Main Family Quote is available as wall art from http://www.wisedecor.com/decor/wall-art/theloveinour.html

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It’s a boy! Oh the excitement and fear that fills her heart immediately. There are so many different feelings rolling through her mind. All she knows now, is that she is exhausted and just wants to hold that bundle of joy, she just birthed. What an amazing miracle this baby is. How do you remember every minute during this milestone moment?

There are many different products to help save this special moment in a mother’s life. There are shadow boxes, memory books, keepsake kits, hand print kits, scrapbooks, etc. A unique idea, would be to use a Baby Time Capsule, so you can save the memories for years, preserve special items that may not fit into a scrapbook, then open it at a child’s 18th graduation or when they have their own children, and relive their own day of birth. What was life like the year you or your child was born?

You many not remember every little detail when you child was born, or of their first year of life. You were so busy as a new mother, trying to absorb it all in at once, learning what new sounds or baby moves mean. So, why not spend those many nights awake with the baby, writing down your every thought, feeling, and wish, or prediction about where you see your child in the future, using the “Message to the Future” letters and Baby Profile Book included in a decorative Baby Time Capsule from www.timecapsule.com.

Check out a testimony from one of our fans on our Facebook page, who has purchased a Baby Time Capsule in the past. If you want to visit, our Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/TheOriginalTimeCapsule. If you check out our page before 5-16-14, you have a chance of winning a Baby Time Capsule. Check out our latest posts to win one.

You can even use your child’s first birthday party or your baby shower to have family and friends come over, each bringing something special, to put in your Baby Time Capsule. For ideas on how to make your child’s first Birthday special, check out http://www.kidspot.com.au/birthdayparties/Party-ideas-Party-themes-A-special-first-birthday+666+589+article.htm

So, what is in your Baby Time Capsule or memory box? Comment Below.

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I have wanted to get a new haircut lately. I get bored easily, so I have already been looking at some pictures online, in magazines, etc to find ideas of what to do with my hair. I know girls especially can relate. When you are pregnant for the first time, and about to be a parent, it can be interesting to review hairstyle books and find new mom looks that may suite you better as you start the journey of motherhood.

Anyways, did you know your own hair is a time capsule. Just pull out your old photo album and watch your photos and hair styles progress, as you flip through the pages. Which style did you like the most, in the past? Check out this website to read about how hair styles have changed in our past, at http://blog.fibond.com/hair-styles-changed-years/

Our hair is an important part of our lives. We all want to look attractive, nice, presentable, professional (if need be), and feel like we fit in with our hair. Hairstyles have changed greatly over the past centuries. Hairstyles even say a lot about our personality as we age, which is what a time capsule does to. A time capsule tells a story of who you are, or want to be, over a century or specific period of time. Also, a time capsule is a very emotional product, similar to our own hair styles, as we watch ourselves change over the years, whether in a good or bad way.

From long, short, wavy, colored, curly, straight, you may see all of these in your photo album as you skim the pages and laugh about the memories over your past years of hair styles. For others, when you cut your hair, you are changing your life or the life of someone else. What a milestone moment that is. For example, when some of you have your long hair cut for great programs like “Locks of Love.” This is a great cause to give back to others who may have lost their hair due to cancer. Thank you to any of you who have given sacrificially to this beautiful ministry. This is also what a time capsule is all about, giving back to your children, or other family members, messages of hope, stories of things you have done in the past, to pass on to them important lessons of advice of what to do or not do, in life.

Will you take the time to write down these lessons, along with putting your favorite photos of that time in your life, in a time capsule, to pass on to your children? I remember hating History in high-school, but in reality it is important to review it, so we do not make the same mistakes again. Now I really enjoy history, especially if it is a topic within history I enjoy talking about. I enjoy talking about family and even hair styles. It may seem little, but hair is important in history. When I review my old photos, I can tell which style helped me feel and look more confident and successful in life.

We all usually want what someone else has, especially when it comes to hair for girls. We are constantly striving to look great, or like the latest celebrity. If you are a new mother, you may be thinking of a new hairstyle even more now in life. A new hairstyle is one way to accessorize a major life event or milestone moment.

You are now on a new journey, and may want a different look with this walk of life with a new baby. Be confident in who you are. That is what makes you, you. If you are looking for new hairstyles yourself, check out the latest trends for 2014 at http://www.latest-hairstyles.com/trends/. Also find out what hair cut suits you better at http://beautifille.com/hairstyle-suits-me-best/. I hope this blogs offered helpful ideas for other women thinking of changing, styling, and/or cutting their hair too. Make sure you take a before and after picture of your hair, especially if you are a new mom, to save in a decorative Baby Time Capsule from www.timecapsule.com.

Also, make sure to save a cut off piece of your baby’s first haircut in the time capsule too. What a special bonding moment that will be when your child opens that time capsule, years later like at his or her graduation, and sees their baby hair for the first time. Hair is important, so save it.

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Credits: Baby’s First Haircut Photo taken from http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/snips-and-clips-4-kids-las-vegas?select=_cUZ43avUEkTH8iNhPBOmw#_cUZ43avUEkTH8iNhPBOmw

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