Rozmarra
Keep chutta in the bike's dashboard
A small stash of ten and twenty rupee notes for parking, toll and the tempo who has no change. UPI covers most of it now, but the day the network is down is the day you need this.
Jugaads for “change”
9 resultsRasoi
Keep coriander alive in a glass of water
Stand the dhaniya stems in a glass with an inch of water, like flowers, and put a loose cover over the leaves in the fridge. Ten days instead of three. Change the water when it clouds.
RasoiMatka water beats the fridge
A clay matka keeps water at exactly the temperature your throat actually wants. Rinse it every third day, keep it on a wet cloth, and change the water daily. Zero electricity, and nobody gets a sore throat in May.
Gaadi
Petrol pump: ask for the meter to be zeroed
Watch the display go to zero before filling starts, and ask for a round amount that is not a common preset. Both take three seconds and both remove the two most common ways of being short-changed.
Bijli
Keep the router off the floor
A router on the floor sprays half its signal into the slab below. Anything that gets it to chest height and out of a cupboard helps more than changing the plan.
Ghar
Baking soda in the dustbin
A spoon of baking soda in the bottom of the bin, under the liner, kills the smell that hits you when you open the lid. Refresh it when you change the bag.
MausamNewspaper inside wet shoes
Stuff crumpled newspaper into soaked shoes and change it after two hours. Dries them by morning and kills the smell, and unlike a heater it will not warp the sole.
MausamNewspaper on the west-facing window
Tape a double layer of newspaper on the outside of whichever window catches the 3pm sun. The room stays noticeably cooler till evening and it costs nothing. Comes off in two seconds when the season changes.
Rozmarra
Ask for the bill in the shop
No bill, no warranty, no exchange, no argument you can win. Photograph the ones that matter — thermal paper receipts fade to blank within a year, usually just before you need them.
That is all 9 of them. बस, इतना ही।