Under the Carpet

This post has got nothing to do with the most famous pass time of our political class and the second nature of the babus, hiding the facts and trying to present the irrelevant as the most important issue to the general public. It is about the most common occurrence in our houses.

“Anything which is not used for six months need not be purchased.”

The above statement should amply explain that I am referring to the habit of a household to keep on accumulating things which it seldom uses. We normally doesn’t realise how many once-used or unwanted and unessential things lie in our houses. We realise these useless things lying around, when we change our house or move to a different town.

Our memory too fails us in reminding that the thing which we go to purchase when required is already lying in some forgotten corner of the house. And even when we spot the thing, we might hesitate to dispose it thinking that that might be of some use sometime in future… which might never come.

Some websites offer us the opportunity to get rid off unwanted stuff, but our nature of holding things for some or the other reason including sentimental, holds us back from doing so. Some cultures or counter-cultures practice frugal living… I too think its time to do that to save money, effort and space in the house.

But I might not do so, because the fun of finding an unexpected thing lying in a corner of the house is nothing less than an exiting ‘DISCOVERY’.