DWELLING PLACE OR JUNK YARDS?

The consumerist world tempts us to purchase the maximum. The business world uses all gimmicks to attract (rather trap) the customers to their products.  Consumer producers, with the help of advertising agencies and marketing people, push their product in the market.  They play the game in such a way that the consumer feels miserable without the product they see in the media.  Many things which are not at all essential or useful are being bought by the ‘victims’.  Depending on the buying power, we tend to fall prey to the trend of purchasing. If we are willing to look at the things we have in our houses, we will find that many of the things we have in our houses are not used even once. For instance, washing machines in some houses are kept as an ornament while they hire someone to wash their clothes, sewing machines which are never touched, clothes packets which are never opened or used only once (earlier days it was the weakness of the ladies, now it is being passed on to men as well), utensils, kitchen gadgets like toasters, wet grinders, etc.  Some of the houses are filled with ‘antiques’ (things they have bought 30 or 40 years ago giving them ‘nostalgic memories’) but covered with dust. Some make their houses museum or exhibition ground forgetting the fact that the things in those places are brushed and kept tidy frequently if not every day. To make the things worse, most have the tendency to store away the broken things and empty cartons and packets thinking that it can be used some other time (that ‘some other time’ never happens or we forget where we have kept it when needs arise!) and as we get older, we will not have the health to keep the things tidy (that does not happen even during the younger days!)

The result of the ‘purchase mania’ is that our houses become ‘trash cans’, dumping grounds and junk yards of the ‘market’. To make the things worse, many are not willing to open the windows of the houses because of the fear of thieves. Many of these houses attract dust and dirt and the result is loss of fresh air.  The end result is people in those houses become sick – bronchitis, asthma etc. 

You have to learn to ask the following questions before you buy anything: “Do I need it? Is it absolutely essential? Do I have a storage space when it is unused? Am I healthy enough to clean the things, at least periodically, that are kept in my house?  The best thing that can be done is purchase the minimum, throw off the garbage maximum and make your house a fit place to live healthily.