Tough note, tough thoughts, tough times. There's a kinda tradition that I stumbled into years ago ... two traditions actually. One is, upon leaving, place a penny on a shelf in the medicine cabinet. This can be a token of good wish to the new tenets. Also, as a lifelong carpenter, I have often discovered, and I also often leave, "time capsules" for the future people.

I've opened up old walls and found carpenters signatures scrawled on studs, flooring, bracing. I've found old newspapers. I once found an old beer bottle with a note inside.

I agree with others here. A happy house does have it's own happy energy and memory. And you can feel it and touch it as you walk in.

Hopefully others will sense and kindle that same spirit. CHEERS, Bob