A christmas carol has a metaphor
"The streets reeked of crime"
Answer: You could write about the economic progression through generations, and tie it back to younger ones
Explanation:
If your personifying the object, I would mention how lonely it was whatever the object was because it never got used and if it did it was rare. I said it was dark and that the object was used to the dark so when it saw light it was very happy because it was so rare.
