---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'N Sekar' via iyer123 <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [iyer123] LOW PRICED ITEMS To: <[email protected]>, Kerala Iyer <[email protected]>, Gopa4411 <[email protected]>
Thank you. Just one observation. After covid, it is the CENTRAL GOVT which gives rice, wheat etc. FREE to the lower strata of Society. The scheme has recently been extended for another few years. State Govts falsely claim credit and many are not even aware it is a Centrally sponsored scheme. N Sekar Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_> On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 7:40 AM, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 <[email protected]> wrote: LOW PRICED ITEMS Respected friends, Today morning after bath and worship in pooja room, I found a lot of match boxes half used. I rearranged match boxes to full and put emptied ones to waste box. Match box is one of the few items priced low. I thought I may write on low priced items. A time passes reading only. Gopalakrishnan 17-12-2023. 1. Match boxes. I recollect even in my boyhood days my father purchased half a dozen match boxes together for a month. After keeping two near the holy nilavialakku, others were kept in a shelf. Kitchen oven using fire wood required more match sticks to ignite fire even after adding small quantity of kerosene on fire wood. Most of the months still more were to be purchased. On those days, it was a medium priced item. Either in provision shops or petty shops match boxes were sold as pieces. Light wood was used for sticks. Though wax applied paper sticks match boxes appeared, they vanished over the time. Now match boxes are mostly given as a box and priced around 20 rupees for a dozen packs. Of all brands, Chaeta fight appears best matchbox having match sticks a little more long. About safety match boxes and earlier match boxes I studied in middle school and later refreshed by reading Wikipedia. When match boxes were in demand, it was common to give match boxes to neighbours. 2. Salt During my college days also, only crystal type common salt was available. For powder salt, the clay is removed by washing and then boiled in a vessel adding salt and water. All dusts appearing on top while boiling and finally all water exhausted, we got powder salt. Salt was also medium priced. Salt was kept in large gunny bags outside shop and almost all times it was wet due to oxidation. It was packed and given. Now too crystal salt is available in packs, but not having any dirt or impurities. Different types of powder salt are available. Mostly for cooking also only powder salt is used nowadays. Whether salt is properly added in dishes or not, now in most homes table salt pot is kept in dining table. Now salt is low priced and available in packs only. Wetting salt bag has become a thing of past. Unlike match boxes, salt is never given as loan or exchanged, especially in the night. So all homes had reserve salt in the jar at all times. 3. Rice There is a general notion that rice price is high, but comparing to many other items, rice price is medium/ low. Rice is stocked in most homes. Porridge with rice and little salt added could relieve a person from hunger. Now in Tamilnadu, through ration shops, free rice and wheat is given every month. In Kerala it is very low priced in ration shops. Scarcity of rice is not there, in Tamilnadu and Kerala there are exclusive shops selling rice of different varieties priced differently. At one time there was scarcity around 1966’s, I recollect during my JE training at Trivandrum only two handful of rice was served. We used to sit near North Indian trainees who least wanted rice so that, we could get their quantity also. They preferred only Chapattis. 4 Vegetables During producing season many vegetables are available at low price comparing to prices of other items today. Similarly fruits. Two items priced very low now in Chennai are coconuts and plantains. Most plantains are priced the same, available around Rs 60-00 per kg. Medium coconuts are priced around Rs 25-00 only. These two items were priced high, plantains around Rs 120-00 per kg and medium coconut around Rs 60-00. 5 Paper and paper products. Paper, note books, file covers, diaries, ball pen etc. are priced medium comparing to olden days. Lesser persons writing diaries, best diaries are available around Rs 300-00. I recollect paying Rs 250-00 for a diary during 2000’s. 6. Plastic items ,textiles etc. Plastic items are priced very low comparing early years. If recycled plastic, price is still lesser, but still many products are worth and long standing. Similarly cost of metals excluding gold. Textiles are in abundance and within the reach of common man. For high price payers there are plenty of shops for them also. Biscuits are very very low priced comparing to earlier years. 7. Abundance Comparing to earlier period abundance is worth mentioning. 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