In the average Kenyan home, things are never thrown away after use (unless it's tissue paper). That small Blue Band or cooking fat container will be used to keep steel wire at the sink. Or coins.
The large cooking fat containers will be used as flower pots. And the Sunlight or Toss detergent containers for pegs. While those ice cream containers will be used to store food, or they will be used as lunchboxes for the children.
The empty jerrican of cooking oil will be used forstoring water or for fermenting porridge. Or for buying paraffin oil. The empty bottles of soda that are gathering dust and spiders under the sink or in a dark corner of a cupboard will be used as mosquito coil stands. That old t-shirt or towel will be used as a duster/mop or a bathroom doormat.
The old hand towel will be used for holding sufurias and wiping wet/dirty surfaces. That washing basin that has a hole or a crack will be used to keep dirty clothes. Or you will find it full of old shoes under a bed. That 2004 calendar that's still hanging on a wall will be used to cover the children's exercise books.
The ashtray that your uncle left will be used as a candle holder. And when you fail your KCPE and KCSE and you feel like you're done, don't fret. You will be used as an example to your siblings.
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