An object with more than one use

Text A: an original contemporary practice extract.

The key ring came from the first trip my daughter and I took alone together. Its painted bus was beginning to lose a wheel-shaped patch of colour where it rubbed against my keys. A friend suggested putting it in a box before it became too worn to recognise. That would preserve the picture and remove it from the journey to work where I usually noticed it.

I kept using it, but photographed both sides while the design was still clear. I did not think every souvenir should be worn away. This one reminded me of the trip partly because it travelled with ordinary things in my pocket. Its usefulness and its memory were not competing owners, although keeping both meant accepting that the surface would continue to change.

Text B: an original contemporary practice extract.

My old football shirt had the signatures from the last season I played with the team. I wore it for casual games until a teammate said the names would fade in the wash. Framing it would keep them visible, but I liked meeting friends while wearing something from the season we still discussed.

I took a close photograph of the signatures and continued wearing it on selected afternoons. I also kept another shirt for muddy games. The decision was not a general argument against display cases. I wanted this particular object to remain part of the activity that had made it matter, while taking some care with the record it carried. Protecting it completely would have protected one purpose by ending another.

Both texts describe the decisions about using or preserving the objects.

What similarities do the decisions about using or preserving the objects share in these extracts? Use evidence from both texts to support your answer.