carbonel

Our whole style of living in our old house, which we did right, felt like that. Developing new style here has been a nice enough experience, but it also has been stressful as we gave up a lot of old happy habits, and we stressed to get the new place as much like the old place in our habits and routines as could be done.

To the extent that we succeeded in doing this, we have liked our house all the more.

The more story one attaches to an object, the more one values it. And the less frequently it is likely to appear on the collector's market. Collectors can be said to assign value in other ways than retaining story to object, although (mostly) highly valuable objects will pretty much always have story attached to them. Scarcity influences that, of course.

All that is to say, sorry about your mug. Google doesn't seem to know about getting you another one.

K.