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    Points:5

    Just for ten rupees you can buy this and consume for more than a year

    What is it that you can get at the cost of just Ten rupees now a days? May be a cup of tea in some village or small town bunk shops. But that is consumed and and over in a few minutes.

    Won't you be surprised to know that there is still something you can get at a cost of just Ten rupees and use it every day at least for full one year ? Not to say that it can at best last for almost one and half years in ideal conditions.

    If you had not already got the answer, yo may say ' Oh', ' Wow'- in recall, because you are all familiar with it.
    It is a Match box pack of ten small match boxes of daily use. In total there can be about five hundred match sticks. If you use one match stick daily for lighting lamps or other purposes, this one pack can easily last for more than one year even allowing some quality loss.

    Don't you agree? Probably the only one item the escalation price has not greatly impacted .

    I would like to hear from you, dear members, your experience with match sticks and match boxes. Also please write about any other similar item you use.
  • #781858

    Points:2
    I agree but there is one small correction. One place you said match box pack of ten small match boxes. But while calculating you have calculated for 12. Of course some time it comes in 10 or sometimes in 12 or even sometimes a big box as free with agarbathi packet. Today being festive day it is good to have this thread on lighting lamp, agarbathi etc.,
    shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham

  • #781860

    Points:1
    Thanks, Sarojah, for alerting me about the oversight. I had corrected it. Hope it is okay now.

  • #781861

    Points:4
    Yes, the Matchbox is an essential item being used in igniting a fire in our homes for the preparation of different items. It comes in handy in a small box considering the safety box. Supposing that there are 500 sticks all together in a packet of 12 matchboxes. If we use the matchbox for altogether a year calculating 4 every day for igniting our ovens, it takes around 125 days to exhaust 500 sticks. In that way, it will last for a little over three months.
    Hence our consumption pattern will be fourfold in the year involving a cost of Rs 40/- if a lighter is not used for igniting the gas stoves.

  • #781863

    Points:4
    Now we are not using regularly match boxes for lighting the stoves. We have gas lighters or electric cookers. We use Matchbox regularly for lighting an oil lamp in the Pooja room. There we may be using a stick every day. But the cost of a matchbox is not known to me and just now only I came to know by reading this thread.
    But the sides of the matchbox absorb moisture after a certain time and it will become waste and the match stick will not get ignited. This is my observation many times. So we should store these boxes carefully away from moisture. Many times in my house many matchboxes become waste.
    But as mentioned by that author I think this is the cheapest item that is available in the market. We may be spending around Rs.30/- to Rs.40/- a year for purchasing match boxes.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #782003

    Points:3
    Match box is an important item and its present price is reasonable. I remember about 55 years back in my village match box was considered a luxury item and many housewives got fire in shape of burnt coal or wood from the neighbour house for starting a fire in their wood stove.
    My grandmother asked me a few times to go to the neighbour house and get the 'fire' in a big spoon or bring some burning wooden sticks.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #782007

    Points:4
    Yes, Umesh, in those days there used to be a fireplace, where the firs is kept continuously in a 'sleep mode'. Some households used to have a perennial oil lamp which will be kept lighted at low flame. As many housed used wood coal or woods and rice husks for their hearths, there used to be the embers of fire always.

    However after the LPG stove became popular, for lighting that, the mechanical lighters became popular. Before that kerosene lighters were used by smokers.

    The popularity of 'safety matches' has made life convenient.

  • #782028

    Points:2
    The replies of @Umesh and @Venkiteswaran reminds me of use of this type (we call it as kumity in Tamil) of fuel in our house exactly 40 years ago after only we bought Gas Stove. To create that after forty years recently I have used that after newly purchased and enclosed here.
    shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham

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  • #782034

    Points:3
    Thanks, Sarojah Madam for your fascination with this old model oven. Prior to purchase of gas oven dating back to 1982, our household used to this popular chullah for the preparation of meals and breakfast. Though this is being used in isolated cases currently, its glamour is still retained. The price of fuel domestic coal has multiplied erratically apart from its remote availability in our region Bokaro located in Jharkhand. This limits its usage.

  • #782045

    Points:1
    Yes @Jha not only cost is increased availability also limited. In fact in our area we got it after enquiry from where the ironing men purchase.
    shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham


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