diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8fa66f02..567cd4e4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ custom
 *.swp
 !custom/example.zshcache
 cache/
+!cache/.gitkeep
+log/
+!log/.gitkeep
diff --git a/cache/.easter-egg b/cache/.easter-egg
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b6164ed..00000000
--- a/cache/.easter-egg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-This file is only here so that Git will keep a cache directory as .gitignore is ignoring all the files within it.
-
-Feel free to add love notes for people here.
-
diff --git a/cache/.gitkeep b/cache/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/log/.easter-egg b/log/.easter-egg
deleted file mode 100644
index 2533149e..00000000
--- a/log/.easter-egg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-This file is only here so that Git will keep a log directory as .gitignore is ignoring all the log files within it.
-
-feel free to add love notes for people here.
-
diff --git a/log/.gitkeep b/log/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b