Ghar
Wet cloth on the mosquito net frame
Wipe a window mesh with a barely damp cloth wrapped around a butter knife. It gets into the frame corner where dust cakes and the mesh does not stretch out of shape.
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Keep a spare key with a neighbour, not in the bike
The magnetic-box-under-the-frame trick is well known to exactly the people you are hiding it from. A spare with a trusted neighbour or in your office drawer is the version that works.
Ghar
Toothpaste on a scratched screen? No — use it on the wall
White toothpaste on a dry cloth lifts pencil, crayon and scuff marks off a painted wall without taking the paint with it. Test one corner first on a dark wall. It does not fix scratched screens, whatever the internet says.
BijliRouter on top of the almirah
Wi-Fi weak in the back room? Move the router high and central instead of behind the TV. Height beats everything — no new hardware, no plan upgrade. Keep it away from the microwave and the fish tank.
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.
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.
Paani
Drip catcher under the RO
Slide a shallow tray under the RO unit. A slow leak announces itself as a puddle in the tray weeks before it announces itself as a swollen cabinet floor.
That is all 7 of them. बस, इतना ही।