常年累月

常 = 小 + 冖 + 吊 : Mnemonic symbol: the centennial light, a light bulb which will shine forever and ever.

常 = 小 + 冖 + 吊 : Charlie Chaplin is fighting his way through anglepod's underbrush with a coat hanger. The anglepod has not been visited in a hundred years, and with his coat hanger, Charlie Chaplin has to cut down a lot of daisies. Finally he found what he was looking for: the centennial light, protected from the daisies and the rain by a cooking top.

年 = 午 + 丨 + 一 : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.

累 = 田 + 糸 : Sir Lancelot (l) is working on an excavation field (田) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3). He has been excavating lots and lots of silken scarves (糸) and ropes (累). The scavers and ropes are accumulating (累) on two heaps to his left and right side respectively.

累 = 田 + 糸 : Sir Lancelot (l) worked all day on his field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) and is extremely tired (累). He swipes off the sweat on his forehead with a silken scarf (糸) and holds tight to a rope (累) hanging from the ceiling to not fall down from exhaustion.

累 = 田 + 糸 : Sir Lancelot (l) planted a field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) and knotted a lot of ropes (累) and silken scarves (糸) together to create a fence and mark off his territory.

月 = ⺆ + 二 : Yu the Great (yu) is modelling a moon (月) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). He uses a stapler (⺆) to staple a lot of capacitors (二) together to form a moon shape, while the real moon is sitting for him.