A Fascination With Chachka
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Often you will be surprised how many ornaments to keep our house when it all started with just a simple act of buying a travel souvenir. Chachka is a Yiddish term that applies trinkets or knick knack – from something cheap but flashy to the tacky tourist souvenirs. Although originally a connotation that it is worthless or disposable, it has sort of evolved over the years and some of these ornaments have truly proven to be mighty worthy. Perhaps it is primarily because of the increased fascination by many collectors as this has evolved in form in his very expensive ones like jewelry and pieces of artwork.
Although it may seem impractical for many people who do not share the same emotions that collectors and owners do, for those who are in the collection, these are simple things that give them a huge amount of joy. It shows how well they have traveled and how much of the world they have known and seen. It thus gives them sense of fulfillment as individuals, as partners (in the part of married couples who love to spend time traveling together) or as a family that their lives are well spent indeed.
A word of caution though, for some chachka collectors could fascination sometimes lead to an insatiable desire to accumulate more items that the collection may be the mountain of clutter. Now this is a corruption of the real essence of the collection. You may want to set a system to trinket collection and fascination if you can not get lost in a world of clutter. You could always have a wide selection of this knick knack as long as you hold them in place that gives you and viewing the visual pleasure rather than distraction.