Preserve your memories and plan your New Year's wishes with the Time Capsule

Every year when we clean up the Christmas tree we open our own Time Capsule. It is an ancient gold-coloured paper Christmas ball with a Christmas scene on it. The ball opens like a box, it probably once contained chocolates. Now the Christmas box contains items collected over time, all of which have their own meaning. A Mexican bridal couple with a baby lucky doll, a porcelain Lucky Neko, a handmade felt angel, an old Christmas lamp and a fortune cookie note from a Christmas dinner a long time ago.

But the most important is our annual letter. In it, we look back on the past year. We name the highlights, the memories and what we are grateful for. And we describe what we wish for the new year. That is almost a kind of prediction and always exciting to read back after a year.

The ball hangs in the tree all Christmas time and is only opened again when all the Christmas decorations are put away. Around Epiphany. Then we look back on the old year with a final glass of mulled wine and write the new letter. The Time Capsule is packed away again between all the Christmas stuff to be opened again exactly one year later.

It is a beautiful tradition that gives the end of the holidays a little more meaning.

For you I have made such a Time Capsule letter. With this you look back on your/your year. You fill in the Time Capsule and keep it with a nice little souvenir of the past year. The souvenir can be a photo, a fortune cookie note, a sweet card... You name it.

Then save this in a ball, box or envelope with your Christmas stuff. Save it to see what you did and learned a year later. Super fun 'for later' if you do this year in, year out!

Time Capsule Ideas

And? Are you going to get started with this? It is a fun activity for the Christmas holidays to do together with the family.

The author: Mariko Naber

Branding expert and online entrepreneur Mariko is the happy brain behind Happlify. Together with partner Mark she runs Happlify, Sell your stuff online and branding agency Loaded ink BNO . She loves feel good, random acts of kindness, meatballs, chocolate mousse, family time, sea, piña colada, sugar & spice and everything nice.