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lol Chado and all that.

The whole point is more that Alice wants to create (presumably) loyal dolls capable of independant thought. It's not the same as the process of creating a youkai, for example the items discarded can't just be any item, ideally they need to have had strong feelings attached to them, enough that spirit can be attributed to them over time.

So for characters like Kogasa that feeling is abandonment after long use as a umbrella. For Medicine it's a kind of similar but stronger feeling of being loved before being tossed away as trash.

I imagine not every tool has this and there are a bunch of circumstances that have to be met and are hard to explain, otherwise you wouldn't be able to move for forgot item youkai, the process isn't something that is easy to reproduce manually, rather it's more a unfortunate series of events that gives birth to a new monster.

Of course, it all depends on your interpretation of ZUN's versions of actual folklore. Oddly this is one the times I like some of Chado's views.