Another year has passed and this time the birthday decorations disappeared slightly quicker than usual. All except this one which has stayed put. I’d better say good-bye to it before it starts deflating.
Tag: declutter
memory archive – day 10.2
For today’s second post I am keeping with the theme ‘sweets’. The picture shows a box of pineapple cakes. The cakes are from Taiwan and we got those as a gift. In Japan, and I believe also in other Asian countries, it is incredibly common to give and receive gift boxes like these. To say thank you for a favour, a job well-done, to bring back as a souvenir (‘omiyage’) when you’ve been travelling etc. Continue reading “memory archive – day 10.2”
memory archive – day 10.1
There is a certain shelf in one of the kitchen cupboards that I am trying to ignore as much as possible. It’s the snack shelf and it is a complete mess. The reason for this are the piles of cheap sweets that occupy the shelf, burrowing most if not all of the more reasonable snacks. Continue reading “memory archive – day 10.1”
memory archive – day 9.2
This is a hot water bottle which is at least 15 years old. You can’t see it in the picture but the material is porous and there are small openings everywhere. My partner thinks this item shouldn’t be included in the memory archive as it’s being dumped due to old age. It also nearly got him seriously injured yesterday when I thought I’m doing something good by pre-warming the bed. That’s how we found out about its state actually. Continue reading “memory archive – day 9.2”
memory archive – day 9.1
The memory archive has been on pause for five days. As I said in my previous post, I have to stick to my principles and make up for it. For the coming five days, I will therefore pick two items per day.
I’ll start off again with a major object that has been invading our living room.
It’s a pretty big outdoor, plastic play slide that was a generous gift when our son was a baby. It never looked nice in our living room but our kids and anyone visiting us under the age of 7 loved it instantly. We’ve owned it for three years now which definitely feels long enough. To avoid any tears and desperate pleads for keeping it I will get rid of it secretly when the kids are at school.
memory archive – day 8
This is a fancy Japanese humidifier and a perfect object to explain my resistance of getting rid of no longer needed items. Continue reading “memory archive – day 8”
memory archive – day 7
This memory is yet about another living thing that we didn’t manage to keep alive for long. Continue reading “memory archive – day 7”
memory archive – day 6
This is a dead bonsai tree. It’s a Japanese maple and a very special birthday present I got 2.5 years ago. We called the tree ‘ki-chan’ which means something along the lines of ‘little tree’ (‘ki’ means tree; the -chan is usually added at the end of a child’s name). Ki-chan was 25 years old when we got it. That’s not really old age for a bonsai but for us it felt ancient.
memory archive – day 5
Today I’m getting rid of homemade ‘slush in a bottle’. This bottle has been standing on our patio far too long. The reason why we haven’t gotten rid of it yet is that it’s messy and no one is sure how to dispose it correctly. The story of this item summarised would be something like ‘children’s science experiment gone wrong’.
memory archive – day 4
This dress survived already at least 2 rounds of charity donations, despite a button missing (with no real intention to find it and sew it back on). Before finally deciding to let it go I was even considering that I could wear it as some sort of pyjama top. Just to avoid saying goodbye to it. Why the sentiment? I do really wonder…
katazukete 