Emergency numbers written on paper
Two or three numbers on paper stuck inside a kitchen cupboard door. When a phone is dead, lost, or in the hands of a panicking child, a written number is the one that works.
Two or three numbers on paper stuck inside a kitchen cupboard door. When a phone is dead, lost, or in the hands of a panicking child, a written number is the one that works.
Any torch pressed against the side of a filled transparent bottle turns a beam into a lamp. Works with the emergency light too, when its own diffuser has yellowed.
Stand your phone torch-up under a transparent bottle full of water. The water scatters the beam into soft light that fills the whole room instead of one harsh spot. The classic power-cut move, and it still works better than most emergency lights.
Photograph Aadhaar, PAN, licence, insurance and the house papers, and keep them in DigiLocker or your own cloud account. The day one is lost is not the day you want to be starting this.
A first aid box nobody else can find is not a first aid box. Same shelf, never moved, and tell the house where it is. Check the expiry on the ointments every Diwali when you clean anyway.
That is all 5 of them. बस, इतना ही।
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