housewarming

No more breakfast

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All my family members attended our relative’s wedding here in Bangalore today.

Even though I was supposed to go, due to the seat limit in the car, I stayed at home.

If I had taken our car, I also could have gone… but I usually avoid driving in Bangalore traffic for new places. I’m a kind of safe guy who always likes to play safe games.

So I sent all our family members on Ola cab.

While booking an Ola cab, I noticed today that the trip’s price varies every minute.

Like 200rs to 800rs! For the same car, same trip. Never saw this happening before.

This is the first time I saw this in an Ola cab.

To get a lower price, Go back and search the destination again. Sometimes, the price will go back within a few minutes.

This is something I learned today. Maybe this could help someone who uses Ola cabs.

One more incident that happened today in the marriage is… Morning breakfast was over before 60+ people had their breakfast.

People were shouting because breakfast was over.

The cook they booked is the same cook who did it at our housewarming function.

Here, he executed the function successfully. But there… Food over before all get a chance to have.

My dad told me some heated arguments also happened there.

Based on our suggestion, they only went with this cook. But our relative did one thing wrong.

They ordered food like a material contract.

They told, morning XX no of plates. Afternoon XX no of plates. All materials are from cook.

They did this to save their time and energy to bring ration.

This is completely WRONG.

As soon as I learned they went with the material contract, I told them they made a mistake.

In marriage, there is a shortage of breakfast food in the morning.

The reason? Cook did only whatever they ordered. Not more, Not less.

After ordered quantity was over, the food was over.

It’s not a cook mistake. It’s the owner’s mistake. Our relative also got to know but couldn’t do anything.

Afternoon, they didn’t make the same mistake.

Keep in mind that doing any kind of function is not easy.

I shared some personal lessons about doing our Housewarming function inside my guide.

pain after housewarming function

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Yesterday, while going through my email inbox, I came across an email with the subject line “Pain”.

I remembered one incident in our first building when I saw the word pain.

It happened when all the construction work was over, and we shifted from a rental property to a brand-new house.

Usually, once the housewarming function is over, it’s recommended that someone stay in the brand-new house.

That’s a kind of tradition we follow. I’m not sure about others…

So, we started shifting all the items on the same day, and I also helped with the shifting process.

I stand on the staircase, and when someone gives me an item from below me, I take and pass that item to the next person.

While doing this type of shifting, I noticed no pain that time…

Once all the shifting was done, whenever I walked for a longer period or in any hilly area, I started noticing some strange pain in one leg.

That pain still has not left me.

When I put more strain on my legs, I feel that pain again, or else I won’t notice that pain at all…

After thinking about why and how it happened, I noticed it happened only after shifting from rental property to our house.

That day, it seemed I put more stress on one of my legs than it could handle.

Whatever weight I used to lift while standing on the staircase put a load on that one leg.

Don’t make similar mistakes to what I did on that day.

Use labourers to shift the materials and monitor them on both buildings at shifting times.

You spend a little on labour charges, but you take care of your health. Which is way more important than anything else.

Arun

PS: I shared some of the lessons that I learned after doing housewarming function inside my Housewarming guide.


My mom liked this Housewarming Return Gift

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My brother went to one of their relative’s housewarming function a few months back. There, they give one big steel bowl.

When my mom saw that gift, she immediately liked it—and praised a lot for giving such a good gift.

After a few months, when our housewarming time came, my mom asked how much that bowl cost and where they bought it from the house owner’s relatives.

They enquired the house owner and replied, “It cost around ₹100 per bowl, and we bought it from a friend’s shop.”

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How to really get a good Housewarming date

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Who doesn’t want to get a good Auspicious date for their house? Everyone needs a good date.

But those dates are given by our Astrologer. We only need to believe what they say.

Some of you might have some basic idea… having a basic idea doesn’t help much.

So, whatever our Astrologer tells us a good date, we must listen and fix our function on those dates.

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Hiring a Professional Photographer for Housewarming Function (my thoughts)

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Yesterday, I went to collect my housewarming photos from the photo studio.

I took my brother’s hard disk, thinking a pen drive wouldn’t be sufficient. After checking the photo’s size, it came to around 7 GB of photos.

The studio guy started copying my folder to our hard disk.

I saw the time remaining. It was showing 3 hours left! My jaw dropped seeing the time left to copy…

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