Simone de Beauvoir observes that there is an increasing reliance on routines and habits as we grow older, that she attributes to a means of experiencing everyday life in the present, to avoid being reminded of time passing. Our posessions, she suggests, support these routines:”The things that belong to us are, as it were, solidified habits, the mark of certain repetitive forms of repetitive behaviour. The posession of a garden means being able to take one’s walk every afternoon: this armchair is waiting for me to sit in it every evening.” (De Beauvoir, S. (1970) La Viellese (tr.Old Age (1972).