“Going to do this with my kids”: Grandma breaks a vintage Christmas ornament. Then a bunch of notes spill out

When a vintage Christmas ornament accidentally shattered, it revealed something far more meaningful than broken glass.

Reddit user Ashley Gutierrez Siler (u/ashleygee) shared photos of a thrifted Christmas bauble that smashed to reveal a time capsule containing heartfelt notes from the 1960s on an r/FoundPaper thread from Dec. 10, 2025.

She wrote the surprise time capsule contained, “a collection of jokes, predictions, and notes from a kid named BJ, all dated from the 60s-70s.”...