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Middle-class Things We All Do Daily!

Okay, if you’re a middle-class Indian, repeat after me! “We, the people of the middle class, solemnly pledge that doing ‘kit kit’ is our mantra and ‘jugaad’ is our savior”. Now that that’s out of the way, get ready to be called out on every single one of these middle-class things that you do daily! 

1. Freebies

After eating a plate of Pani puri from the roadside stall, do you believe it is your birthright to get a free ‘sukha puri‘, or are you normal?

The mom version of this is bullying the sabzi wale bhaiya into giving you free dhaniya-mirchi because you bought so many vegetables.

Middle- class habit: Plate of pain puri
Pixabay

2. Use it till the last drop

Middle-class Indians will never, and I mean NEVER, let anything go to waste. You may think that we’re woke but we’re just broke. No toothpaste tube is every getting thrown out before getting mercilessly murdered. And the shampoo is not over until you’ve watered it down at least 8 times. 

Middle class habit: Toothpaste tube getting squeezed
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3. The life cycle of middle-class clothes

In a middle-class household, every piece of clothing has a life-cycle. It starts as a ‘bahar ka kapda‘ where wearing it is strictly restricted to special occasions. Once you’ve worn it in all your different groups, it gets demoted to an ‘everyday wear’ title and when the threads finally start wearing off, it becomes the household ‘pocha‘ or dusting cloth. 

Middle class habit: life- cycle of cloth
Wallpaper Flare

4. Carrying food everywhere

How can you go on a trip and BUY lunch? That’s too wild a concept to fathom. Us middle classers (yes, I just made that up) carry our 7-course meal with us in our stackable steel tiffins. But come on, no pizza is ever coming close to those ‘Makhan wale aloo parathe‘ am I right?

Steel tiffin
Pixabay

5. Never throwing out… anything

A middle-class household is like a big black hole. Anything that comes in, stays in. Be it plastic bags, paper bags, take away dabbas, or gift wrapping paper. Why? Because ‘baad mei kaam aayega‘!

Middle-class habit: collected plastic bottles and boxes
Pixabay

6. Never buying bags from brands

It’s extreme madness to spend Rs.15 on a shopping bag for a dress worth Rs.2000. Or at least that’s the mantra every middle-class kid is born reciting. Hoarding all those bags eventually does come to use!

Paper bag
Pixabay

7. Not peeling off the plastic from new things

Whoever believes that there are seven sins doesn’t know the repercussions of peeling the plastic off of a new appliance in a middle-class house. 

Middle-class habit: New remote with plastic peel
Reddit

8. Crocin is the cure to all your problems

What do you mean a crocin won’t solve all your problems? Has my whole life been a lie?

Tablet
Piklist

9. Having deceptive boxes

You don’t know sadness unless you have opened an unsolicited butter cookies tin box…only to find everything but cookies in it. 

sadness
Pxfuel

10. Getting food packed at a restaurant

Packing leftovers after eating at a restaurant are a given. So what if the leftovers are half a roti and two spoons gravy, at least you get the takeaway boxes!

Leftover food
The daily meal

11. Intuitions

Does anyone else’s parents have this secret code language where your mom will understand that if your dad cuts the call, it means he’s near?

Telepathy
Smithsonian magazine

12. Mehman Bhagwan hai

No Diwali cleaning comes close to the makeover a middle-class household gets when guests are coming. Oh and don’t even talk about what it’s like if the guests are coming from abroad! New sheets, new crockery, new kids, the list goes on.

Guest
Media defense

13. Theatre degree

If you think you’re good at acting, watch the performance of a middle-class child taking money from his relative. You have to put up a whole show before accepting the money or you get ‘the look’ from your parents. 

Angry parents
Youth ki awaaz

14. Storing the pizza seasonings for later

What’s the point of ordering pizza if you don’t loot the store of all their oregano and chili flakes?

Seasonings
Indiamart

15. Having a small box with coins 

It’s a rule that every middle-class household will have a small box with coins in it. And every time you get out of the house you’re told to carry change so that you don’t have to give the ‘auto wale uncle‘ more than the meter fare. 

Jar of Coins
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