From the old DVD player to the inherited porcelain pot: you associate something with every item that sits around at home – sometimes just the guilty conscience of never using it. But how do you get rid of him? About the difficulty of cleaning out.
It is the season for the Rite of Spring. Well, we don’t necessarily have to sacrifice a virgin, as in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Le sacre du printemps”, in order to propitiate a spring god through a wild dance of death. No, our spring ritual is less bloody, but it also has something of a sacrifice to it: While nature awakens outside, we get rid of unnecessary objects in our homes. They are all things with which we have developed a certain relationship, if only because they have been lying around with us for a while.