a while ago I read following add on the website of the BSR (Berlins garbage removal):
“I would like to exchange a box of old family photos for a bottle of dish-cleaning detergent with lemon taste”
I met up with a middleaged woman at her home in Berlin Zehlendorf. we sat down and she told me about her family before she handed me over a box of old black and white photos.I asked her why she wanted to get rid of them.She said she just doesn’t have space for it.the concept of nostalgia didn’t seem to apply to her at all.
I ended up giving her the bottle of detergent (with lemon taste), we shook hands, and I left with 80 years of family history in my hands.