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ing for its place, but there is, like, yup there is plenty that will find a
place here.
HP: will the rest then stay in storage or will you throw them away?
T: I won’t throw them away. They’ll go somewhere, somewhere like the
flea market (laughs). Of course one always needs to check that they
have not been marked or signed, that they aren’t unique pieces. In that
case, one just has to store them somewhere and then take them to the
summer house or somewhere. Or, sometimes even, if it’s something
sensible but just won’t fit in here, then totally cool-headed, I pass it on.
But I don’t pass on anything awful. It has to be something that’s our
kind of thing. Or, rather, like the recipient’s kind of thing. (Tiina 05
215-225)
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Gifts, when they first enter the home, are difficult to accommodate and many
of the interviewees said that they were most pleased with those kinds of gifts
that could be consumed. Theo and Sakari were most explicit in having both
built the reputation that no one should bring them stuff, but their tactics were
still different. Theo’s reputation was for being selective, while Sakari’s was that
he already had it all:
T: my friends don’t buy anything, for either of us, because they know that
it is awfully difficult to buy us anything. (Theo 04 209-210)
S: it’s because I at least have always collected stuff (laughs), like, voluntarily,
maybe taken things that, if it’s possible, that in a sense I have
particularly wanted, taken them before anyone else has thought to
give them away (laughs). So there’s already a store of stuff that’s waiting
to be taken back into use, and maybe everybody has known that
I’m the type who hops around in rubbish skips collecting stuff. (Sakari
& Elisa 05 400-408)
One might assume, perhaps, that those households that had the strongest
visions of how the apartment should look and what products there should be
in the apartment, and who had also put considerable effort into realising that
vision, would be least likely to run any kind of museum in their home. Many
of the households in my sample fall into this category, but still run some kind
of museum and store things that they themselves believe to have little value.
Olavi and Hannele are examples of this kind of museum practice. Indeed, I am
suggesting that there is a museum practice going on based on the displeasure