Literature
The Nutcracker
Nutcrackers are useful, decorative and seasonal.
During Christmas, you climb up into the attic, and take out all of this useless junk, just to be stashed away not a month later. Part of you doesn't even know why you do it; probably because your parents always made you do it and it just stuck—they were always too religious about these stupid things. You locate the little guy, dust him off and set him on the mantle. When your friends and family come over, you show him off, reminisce about the good times, and put it away. It sits there for three weeks, overlooking all, but almost entirely ignored, if anything, it just gets in the way of 'more i