magoo
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18 years is nothing though really. does much really change??
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A time capsule from 2007
- Thread starter Skaville
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Thnik what life was like in 1989 compared to how it is today.
For a start out, if nothing much had changed since 1989, we'd not be posting on here.
Shizuoka Dolphin
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A print-off of this thread. 
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Loads of good suggestions, make sure you include a copy of a local paper, would be interesting to see how the issues change (or don't) over the space of 18 years, also the fortunes of ordinary things like house prices/football teams...look at Oxford United, pretty sure that they were in div 1/2 in 89, now they are in the conference.
You are probably right.... the headlines in many of the papers were all about President Bush and Chemical Weapons...
and power tools cost the same or less than 18 years ago....
pity we can't buy the houses at the prices in the newspaper ads though.
The best bits are the family and friends cards and letters,m the first year book and, in this case, the girls magazines, which seem so coy and tame!
bristolseagull
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The Mccanns?
Cian
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There were bulletin board systems in 1989. The net existed a long time before most people think it did, my dad had an email address in 1983... There'd have been no graphical smilies though
Arthur is making his own time capsule - which we explained to him on his second birthday. As he's old enough now to have likes and dislikes we're asking him at random intervals what he'd like to put in his capsule. So far we have Thomas the Tank Engine and a picture of Daddys race car and a raisin 
when he's 18 he can look back at things that were important to him at the age of 2....(of course I'm throwing in a few other things newpaper, copy of the BBC news....etc)
when he's 18 he can look back at things that were important to him at the age of 2....(of course I'm throwing in a few other things newpaper, copy of the BBC news....etc)Shizuoka Dolphin
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I think you've just posted the most boring thing on any bulletin board ever, before 1989 or otherwise.
No offence, like.
aftershavedave
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a print out of your run in with mad frank, that was this year wasn't it?
and many congrats also
and many congrats also
ROSM
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my wife is welsh and my mum italian so my brother put some Italian and welsh bits together for my son so that he has an idea of his background together with some letters written to him by his sons (my nephews).
Big congrats on the child - is without doubt the best things that I have ever been involved in.
Superphil
Dismember
I have done this for a number of God Children I have. I normally put in;
Most recent "Now that's what I call music" CD
Most recent Brighton Match Program.
Current Sunday Newspaper, especially the Sports Section and TV sections.
Whatever is the current "must have toy" I did Star Wars figures, in their boxes, for my two Godsons back when Episode III came out. But whatever is bang on now.
Most recent "Now that's what I call music" CD
Most recent Brighton Match Program.
Current Sunday Newspaper, especially the Sports Section and TV sections.
Whatever is the current "must have toy" I did Star Wars figures, in their boxes, for my two Godsons back when Episode III came out. But whatever is bang on now.
Lord Bracknell
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One thing that I did for my kids was to keep a copy of a local and national newspaper for the day that they were born - and then keep the collection growing over the years by adding newspapers from every birthday they had, up until their 21st.
The oldest one still keeps his box of newspapers at Bracknell Towers and I've just dug it out from on top of a wardrobe.
An interesting backpage story from the Argus jumps out at me - on the day before the Albion's 3rd Round FA Cup match against Wolves, there were still 6,000 unsold tickets.
A three bedroom house "close to Dyke Road" cost £16,995. And the starting salary for a Clerk for local insurance company, aged 20+, pref with O Levels, was £2,200 pa. Tickets for the Jacksons at the Brighton Centre were about to go on sale ... £4, £5 or £6.
January 1979, btw.
The oldest one still keeps his box of newspapers at Bracknell Towers and I've just dug it out from on top of a wardrobe.
An interesting backpage story from the Argus jumps out at me - on the day before the Albion's 3rd Round FA Cup match against Wolves, there were still 6,000 unsold tickets.
A three bedroom house "close to Dyke Road" cost £16,995. And the starting salary for a Clerk for local insurance company, aged 20+, pref with O Levels, was £2,200 pa. Tickets for the Jacksons at the Brighton Centre were about to go on sale ... £4, £5 or £6.
January 1979, btw.
Dick Knights Mumm
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Captain Haddock
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Copy of footy mag(s), recordings of news, MoTD etc, photos, a babywear item, the packaging from one or two favourite products in the family home (you'd be surprised how they change and the strange sensation of seeing them again after years out of mind)...and one of each denomination of British currency.
Captain Haddock
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Stamps?
hart's shirt
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A forecast of what things will be like in 2025.
Or as I like to call it, "25 minutes past 8 in the evening".
Or as I like to call it, "25 minutes past 8 in the evening".