I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Character actors have a long shelf life.
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.