Jennifer Horgan: I'm mourning a broken laundry basket - it held so many memories

We get attached to the oddest objects, but those emotional bonds are real

Children understand the significance of objects more than us adults. They instinctively come to depend on teddies and blankies in childhood. File picture

It wasn’t annoyance. It was an inconvenience, certainly. I knew I’d have to go out and buy another washing basket, but that’s not what I was feeling when it broke.

I felt genuine, heartfelt sadness. I didn’t cry but on another day I might have. It was my own fault too. I loaded too many towels onto the flat base and so the single arm broke off on one side. The weave snapped.