My hand is already over the waste basket when suddenly I hesitate: maybe I shouldn't? This time I keep it, many more times I throw away things, still, over the years, my house is filling up with objects and documents that have survived the ordeal of being classified as waste; things I keep on to for later... to help me remember. These are often things not purposely produced as memoralia like souvenirs, picture post cards or photo snapshots, but objects to which I give personally an extra meaning, changing their category from daily life utensil to personal treasure. There is a story with each of such objects, in most cases the story is not visible, the object does not depict a particular event, the event needs to be told. Language to make "the invisible visible" says Krzysztof Pomian in his study on the 'Origin of the museum' and he invents a special word for such objects that have changed their status, from an object with use value to an object representing what can not be seen. The term Pomian uses is 'Semiophors', based on the Greek words for 'sign' and 'carrier'.