I was looking at a  cedar chest my father had made me that was in my daughters room, Elizabeth.  It is about twenty years old and the inside where it is lined with cedar planks still smells fresh.  My dad made it out of pine boards from our camp we had in Deerfield Massachusetts when I was a kid.  He cut down the pine trees himself and had them made into boards at the local saw mill.  We have a barn at my moms house where he planed the pine boards, sanded them down, and made a fine piece of pine furniture.  I would like to pass it on to one of the kids when they get older and have them pas it on to one of theirs.  Every family should have a piece of heirloom furniture and I think it will be all the more touching that great grand children will know their great, great grand father made this pine cedar chest.  I know if the cedar ever loses its smell all you have to do is sand it down and it will come right back.  The outside pine board part of this great piece of furniture is scarred and nicked from years of use.  I know I can sand down and refinish the pine very easily to make it look new.  But, I think I will leave it the way it is.  It reminds me of my father, a little nicked and scarred from years of use, but the best father a son could ever have.