Home Sweet(?) Home
Does a home ever get organized or feel complete?
When there's a clean place to sleep, cook, eat, and relieve, it should be enough to carry out daily life activities. But it's not.
I realized it just now, home is a place that constantly evolves according to the comfort, needs, and preferences of its residents. It's organized in the morning and gets chaotic as the hours tick away. This constant swinging between order and chaos is proof of life - a life that tries to keep up. When that last leaking tap is fixed, the linen doesn't crease anymore, the dishes stop getting dirty, no dirty footprints in the hallway, no piles of laundry - is it when the house is organized...? But, uh-hello.... anybody there?
It turns out that having basics fixed is not sufficient to call a home - a home. I'm not implying the answer is in luxuries; rather, it's in comfort, needs desires, and preferences. A home is complete the moment it becomes your sanctuary and brings you happiness - it can happen with or without a leaking tap. In my case, termites, scorpions, and snake babies. Oh yes, termites are not going anywhere, I have to live with them. I put on my gear (a face mask for a shield and bug spray for a gun) and hunt those nasty bugs down every fortnight - this is life now. As if this ruckus wasn't giving me a good time, I have also killed three snake babies and 2 adult scorpions casually wandering in my home in the span of 3 days - the home where my kids stubbornly walk barefooted all day.
My husband mocks and says, one cannot wish for a more natural habitat in this synthetic world. I haven't mentioned lizards, frogs, and bees.
Some of these creatures come as a package with ground-floor flats and independent accommodations. The benefits of living on the ground outweigh the few perks of top floors, but it is this non-human life that makes me always question my preference because summers last for 8 months, and with it comes all sorts of unwanted guests.
Anyhoo, I'm talking about my new home, which is a little too organic, ecologically, for my liking but has solved half the pressing problems in my life. So, even if the material possessions are not organized, my life is.
As for the materials, I went for some home shopping in the city. Bought some more flooring for the hallway, curtains for my room, a coffee table, and some plants.
I'm in the process of making this space more homely. Hopefully, a cozy nook will keep my mind off the little issues of this place. Although, I'm having nightmares of a snake crawling up on my bed whose baby I killed last night at my doorstep. Can't wait for the winters to fend off these deadly creatures.
I don't strive for a sterile life - I actually welcome all the creepy-crawlies (mosquitoes are considered superfluous and useless all over the world, but even they fulfil a higher purpose...). What is important to me, however, is a basic order: everything has its place and can be found there. The rest is cosiness ;-))
Every livingbeing is created for a purpose. I don't deny that. The scorpion I found the other day in one of the room is apparently a termite-eater (Google says) which I have in abundance at home. But I'm better off with bug-sprays than keeping a scorpion as a pet.😅
There's no question about basic order. But those creepy crawlies creep me out big time. 🥲
And mosquitoes?? I think I will die before age because of inhaling excessive mosquito repellents.
I admire your home diaries and actually learn a lot about home decor, you're an inspiration for those who want it minimalist but still rocking.
Kindly share the spray name to kill termites if you can, they are the worst creatures ever for houses.
You know what they have done? They ate all the wood frame of doors in my house that we had to replace them with iron frames.
But still i find these termites sometime on the walls and a few wood frames left behind.
We had sprayed our house many years ago to resist termites, results are good but not 100%.
I'm also interested in that spray, as you've mentioned that lizards are gone, i want it at every cost😮
After reading your situation, I'm forced to believe that you residential area is in jungles(with native animals)😥
I'm using Kingtox on regular basis and before moving into this house, we got it all sprayed with 3 different kinds of nameless but known to be extremely toxic sprays available in the local market.
We had to install a new door, cabinet frames and two new drawers. There are still 5 spots where termites reappear every 5th or 6th day.
The lizards are not gone. There's one in each room. (: Kingtox works well on them though. At this point, I'm tired of killing them. Just waiting for the winter to make them go in hibernation.
There's a lot of greenery and open space where I live. There's also a forest reserve in the town but a cheerless Thal towards the west can't be ignored which probably explains the abundance of these desert dwellers in my town which is arid from within despite all the green.
Seems like termite situation is as disastrous there as it's here, why i didn't think about kingtox before, good one.
I just wish if it can kill lizards but it only faints them or makes them mad.
Gazillionth day of questioning their existence.
Your town is quite adventurous🙁
Kingtox has always worked for me but it failed this time.
I prefer lizards on the wall so I hardly spray them with Kingtox because it makes them lose their mind and they start wandering like crazy on unexpected places like bed and floors. 😑
I can't bear them even there😭
We kill them with bullets🔫
Bullets? This reminds me that once an acquintance told me to put phenyl or napthalene solution in a water gun to make an aim at the lizards which are not in reach.
Yes bullets, one kind of smallest bullets for animal hunting and witn real rifle:)
Please Don't report to the police😃
It's not safe to play with the lizards😶
And we have sand and dust storms:(((((
If it's your permanent residence, go with the drill and bore holes with insecticide solution and you are good for lifetime
That's a good solution, my relatives are doing it for new home construction, but luckily now termites are not here excessively, just one door frame have it, I'll try manual spray for sure.
I'm in the same boat buddy!
And at odds with the significant other about the idea of home which is looking like a dream that is far far away!
The summer and the heat ain't going anywhere anytime soon...
And this place, btw, it's my second night here isn't giving me any happy vibes... Although it's an independent house (in contrast to a flat) but the big ass mosquitoes ain't making my lawn experience any pleasant!
When do husbands agree with wives?!
Well... the morning is pleasant today - giving fall vibes. I don't know if I can say the same an hour or two later. 😅
Mosquitoes come with the package. (:
You will enjoy winter sun though in your lawn.
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