Residents excitedly put collectively a field of keepsakes, knick-knacks and different objects that they wish to obtain 15 years later

Keepsakes, letters to their future selves, stones and even masks are among the peculiar objects UAE residents are freezing in a time capsule to be opened after 15 years. The service is being supplied totally free by Dubai-based firm The Field Self-Storage as a part of its fifteenth anniversary.

The idea was impressed by founder and CEO of The Field Wadih Haddad’s personal expertise within the UAE in 1997 when he and his associates buried a time capsule. “Once we returned after 10 years to get it again, there was a constructing on prime and we could not ever get it again,” he remembers.

“So, when the 15-year anniversary of The Field happened, it obtained us considering. Backyards aren’t that frequent in Dubai the place individuals can do time capsules. Now we have the potential to allow them to preserve their time capsule secure with us and in addition to ship it to them in case they don’t seem to be shut by in 15 years. That is principally how the thought of the DXB time capsule was born.”

“What I wish to keep in mind”

Dubai resident Bhoomika was a kind of who put a memento into the time capsule. “I believed to myself what I wish to keep in mind about this time,” she mentioned. “So, I took a field and added a number of objects. I put my 2022 journal, an outdated bottle of bathtub salts as a result of I really feel like once I open the field and the scent got here wafting out, I’d recall this time. I additionally put in a masks to remind myself of the 12 months we survived, {a photograph} of a dinner with my siblings and husband and some different knick-knacks together with stones from totally different seashore throughout the UAE.”

In keeping with her, what she loved essentially the most about the entire course of was the conversations it impressed. “Ever since I heard of it, I spent loads of time discussing with my household what I needed to place in,” she mentioned. “It made all of us suppose just a little deeper and be extra aware of our present blessings.”

Bhoomika’s husband additionally put a letter into the capsule. “When he noticed the writing station, he wrote a letter to me and put it in as nicely,” she mentioned. “I actually needed to learn it as a result of he by no means writes me letters. I assume I simply have to attend 15 years.”

A homegrown idea, The Field began in 2006 from the founder’s bed room within the Springs in Dubai. The thought got here by means of fulfilling the necessity of a buyer who had a selected difficulty with managing their area necessities. “To start with it was simply me operating round helping prospects, delivering packages and managing the back-office administration and door to door promoting,” mentioned Wadih. Since then, the corporate has grown to a company with over 30 workplace employees and over 40 safety guards, truck drivers and dealing with crew.

The way it works

Residents can go to The Field, JLT between January 13 and 15 from 10am to five.30pm and depart their treasured memorabilia within the time capsule. It may be a message, a favorite recipe, a letter, a much-loved outfit, purpose lists for the longer term and extra. There’s a writing station on the facility which is able to enable residents to write down and seal letters to themselves within the time capsule.

After the three days, The Field will seal the container and solely open it in 15 years, preserving the objects over time and offering a chance to mirror on what life was like in 2023. The corporate will ship the objects to its homeowners in 2038, regardless of the place they’re.

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