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217<br />

P 217. Janne’s clock<br />

5 U S I N G D E S I G N<br />

in, the kids think they’re horrible and then, of course, what they want,<br />

in my opinion that’s awful. Of course it is my role to be flexible. So if<br />

they want something, if they want, like, for example, in the older kid’s<br />

room now, what (pause) in principle is quite a neat closet, but it’s a bit<br />

of a farmhouse style that I wouldn’t voluntarily go for (laughs), ever<br />

(laughs). But, on the other hand, if [the kid] wants to have it in his/<br />

her own room and feels good with it and possibly takes it away with<br />

him/her some day, that’s fine. It’s not, it’s not a problem. But then<br />

again, these so called shared parts of this house, here [the kids] have<br />

very little say over what goes in. ( Janne 05 524-535)<br />

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I am interpreting that taking care of babies and young children – the family<br />

members who cannot take care of themselves or make consumption decisions<br />

on their own – is, from a responsible adult’s point of view, often part of running<br />

a hotel. In the data, there were several households with babies and young<br />

children. Based on what Tiina, Sanna & Kalevi, Laura and Emma & Kalle<br />

reported, stuff started to pour in once they had announced that the household<br />

was expecting a baby. Tiina and Laura described the situation:<br />

T: in there [the future nursery] we’ll have a crib and stuff<br />

HP: of course the with the baby comes quite a lot of stuff. Have you been<br />

browsing shops?<br />

T: no. And not (pause) although I haven’t been browsing around, one<br />

shelf almost full of different kinds of stuff has appeared over there<br />

though [in a storage space]<br />

HP: from friends and relatives?<br />

T: from friends and from work. And my sister has brought couple of<br />

boxes of clothes and (pause) the prams we bought, since they needed

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