Repair and Maintain and Repeat

Since my pregnancy with Samuel I'm a major tea drinker. Some days I drink up to three or four pots which is a good thing because I used to forget to take in fluids in in the past. So you see, a tea pot and a tea glass, which I prefer to drink my tea from, is quite essential to my daily routine. Lucky that I have two pots in differnt sizes. Not so lucky that I'm also a major klutz and drop or bump several items a day. Two of these happened to be my beloved tea pots recently which I both broke in a matter of days, so I suddently found myself without a bigger vessel to make tea in. Neither pot is of huge financial value (though one of them is a (quite common) Bauhaus tea pot) but still I realized that there are certain things that we feel we cannot let go. It would be easy to just throw them out and find a new and shiny substitute without scratches, flaws, dents or holes. While that might be the way people usually do it in a time where things are readily available to be bought and brought home at any given moment, I prefer most of my belongings to have emotional value. Sure, there are objects that come with a story even though they are new. They might have been carefully and thoughtfully hand-made or were sold on a fleamarket. Why not try to stick to what we have and get the most out of it though? So, instead of getting rid of a tea pot I once handled rudely, I mend, repair and maintain it as well as I can. Isn't a tiny flaw what makes things - and people for that matter - beautiful?