Harris allows his actors to inhabit a lived-in environment without turning them into walking knick-knacks that announce the period.

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More importantly, they keep acquiring stuff that cannot be consumed and never rots or rusts: plastic toys, metal garden furniture, porcelain knick-knacks.

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It opened to visitors in 2009 and part-guided tours allow you to wander between rooms where the furnishings and knick-knacks are much as she left them.

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This can be experienced first hand at the "Kunst und Nostalgiemarkt", which sells everyday knick-knacks from the old East Germany, and at the DDR museum.

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Who wants to buy knick-knacks when you just lost your job?

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On her toilet, besides the gilt plate, innumerable knick-knacks .

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Harrah's, the firm that owns Caesar's Palace, does not keep track of its employees' ages, but a brief walkabout reveals many silver-haired croupiers, waitresses and vendors of Elton John-themed knick-knacks.

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As a result, the main crossroads has already been taken over by souvenir vendors, selling the same cheap knick-knacks you can find in Shanghai or Beijing markets (or New York's Chinatown).

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Amazon has expanded from books to consumer electronics, to cars and mobile phones. eBay started auctioning knick-knacks found in attics, but is now increasingly a virtual storefront for small dealers selling goods of all sorts.

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The deal gave Petra key distribution assets in Southeast Asia's second-biggest chocolate market, as well as ownership of such popular confections as Goya chocolate bars and Knick Knacks biscuits.

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