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Childhood Memories of Chocolate Coins from My Grandmother
When I was around 3-5 years old, my grandmother used to live with her sister. During this time, she would gift gold coins to my siblings and me. Unbeknownst to us, the gold coins actually contained chocolates inside. My grandmother kept gifting us these coins, and one of my sisters eventually discovered the secret. We then sold all the coins to our eldest sister for 0.003 dollars or one rupee for the entire stash. These days, each coin is worth around 5-10 rupees or 0.017-0.035 dollars.
After a while, we grew tired of receiving these coin gifts and selling them after playing with them, so we asked our grandmother to stop sending them. She was curious as to why her beloved grandchildren no longer wanted to receive the chocolate coins and eventually found out about my sister's actions. As a result, my grandmother doubled the supply of gold-wrapped chocolate coins for a few weeks and did not send any to my sister. She then instructed that if my sister wanted to have a chocolate coin, she would have to buy it from us. My grandmother forgave my sister after she learned her lesson.
My Sister's Magical Tale of Fairies
Oh, you thought my sister learned her lesson? You are mistaken, my dear. We had a swing near the kitchen area that my dad had arranged outside of our house. If I wasn't writing this blog, I may not have remembered the nostalgic times of swinging within the comfort of our own home. My same sister struck again with another one of her tricks. This time, she used magic to make us do house chores. No, she wasn't a witch or someone who had learned black magic. You see, we used to watch a TV show called "Annak Wala Jin" (English: A Ghost with Glasses). The show featured fairies such as the blue fairy, yellow fairy, and more. When our mom and grandma would leave the house and distribute house chores among us, my sister would sit down on her royal swinging ride and say things like "Yellow fairy, do this house chore" or "Blue fairy, do this house chore," and so on.
Although she didn't know how to do real magic, she was quite skilled at using praise to manipulate others into working for her. I can only imagine what she would be like as a boss to her employees - she could easily praise them to work extra hours! I have also seen her impressive bargaining skills. She truly is an impressive spell caster. We siblings still laugh to this day when we remember how we did house chores while she kept enjoying her swing. We were so addicted to being called fairies that we even requested what color of fairy she should call us.
The Sweet Lie of Grandma: Glowing Face
My grandma encouraged me to build the habit of bathing daily by tricking me into thinking I would glow in the dark after taking a shower. My whole family played along with this act, and I continued to believe this sweet lie as truth. When I entered the room, she would say her eyes were hurting because of too much glow and requested to turn off the room's light. Sometimes she even cut vegetables in the dark just to make me believe I glowed after showering. It's fortunate that I didn't tell anyone this glowing tale during my school days; otherwise, it would have taken me no time to become a class clown. It's sweet how our elders often lie to us just so we can build good habits in life.
Reality of Marriage: A Limitation on Choice
If you come from a culture where it is common to live with your family even after turning 18, you might be familiar with this trick. Our whole lives, we were told that we can marry whoever we choose. But in reality, this looks better in fantasy, at least in our society.
Can I marry someone who is black/white/brown? No.
Can I marry someone who is tall/short? No.
Can I marry a Muslim? Yes.
Can I marry a Muslim from a certain sect? No.
Then who can I marry? Anyone.
Can I marry her? No.
This is the result of many cultural, religious, and societal factors. I believe it's better for me to join the "proud to be single" gang.
Childhood Savings
I started saving from an early age, as early as 5 years old. I bought my first galla/pot and saved as much as I could, 1 rupee at a time. I would get around 100 rupees per event per person sometimes, like on Eid day. It didn't take me too many years to reach 3,000 rupees. Imagine collecting coins to reach such a big figure, including some jackpots like 100 rupees. I was still unaware of the monster called inflation, so I was saving without considering it. In my dreams, I was a billionaire of the future because habit building was the hardest part, which I had conquered.
When I reached 3,000 rupees, I gave my money to my sister, as it was a big amount for me. At one point, I had reached 10,000 rupees, and my sister gave the money to our mother and father. My Eid and other event gifts had increased to 500 rupees per person, and I had reached 22,000 rupees or 71 dollars at the age of 12.
Sounds nice, right? Nah, life is full of surprises. I realized I had fallen into a trap, and one way or another, whatever I requested to buy with my collected money, they gave reasons not to buy it. In the end, I came to the conclusion that my money was now in the bank, which would never give me my money back. So, during the building of our first house, I gifted my money. It was already in a separate place, and it helped my family. Now, I prefer to lose my money than to save it in someone else's security.
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The last part is relatable to all of us. As children we learned our lessons the hard way, giving grown-ups money to save for you is a disaster, whenever you want to buy something they would always give excuses as to why you can't buy them, and at the same time you are never going to see it anymore.
So we learned to be the custodian of our money and to mind it carefully and secretly until something comes up that we like to contribute to in the family.
Your sis was an impressive bargaining sweetheart with her fairy names. And Grandma was so sweet with her chocolate coins and her way of making sure you are always clean with her glow-in-the-dark praises.
Okay, I'll skip the, "you can marry anyone" part.. lol.
My sister is getting better and better at her skills xD
Since u skipped talking about it, I can feel this skipping more haha
I love the aspect of bathing daily to glow in the dark, I think this has helped your skin a lot.
Now look at how you are glowing like a newborn baby.
This is more than a trick, lol.
I wish I could have some gold coins as well, I would have become wealthy by now, lol.
You had a great childhood experience with your grandma, that's great.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I enjoyed it.
People underestimate taking care of hygiene alot. It motivates me to carry on with energy through out the day if I am clean, I am fresh too.
You better start collecting them now.
I was in university canteen and asked for these coins to click a photo. It's uncomfortable to click in public crowdy places. But I needed to teach 1:1 frame to HL members so I took the step.
I wanted to share too much more. Stay tuned for more content. :)
I'm waiting patiently for more content. You are amazing !!
It's the readers who make me a writer. You are more amazing. :)
Thank you for the great compliment bro
Your sister indeed made a good profit at that time. She did business with family members.
I can guess you guys still poke her for doing such kind of act. Isn't it?
In the beginning, I also thought that it was a coin of gold but I understood it at that time because my mother said about it after some time.
It seems funny. But I am just guessing what was your reaction when you heard eyes were hurting because of too much glow.😅🤣🤣.
In the case of Eid money and other saving my mother almost said the same things when I was a child. I think this thing happens to all of us😅.
After reading your blog now a smile came to my face. It reminded me many memories of my childhood. I believe such kind of thing made our life more enjoyable and those memories are very precious.
First of all, what a surprise visit to my blog.
I also did business with my family. Buy a pack of 30 items of x and sold separately to my dad as he was a regular consumer at 5 rupees difference (market rate).
No, we don't poke her as she feels happier about this story. She still calls her daughter princesses to get the job done. God knows how much she manipulates her husband with her powers. Highly underestimated the spell caster.
Yep, every child thinks it's either a toy or pure gold. You were at least smarter to understand it's gold.
This glowing part even makes me blush to this day.
Eidi connects us. Eidi reminded me about my EID day celebration maybe you wanna check it out. Oh, and how can we forget when people forget what to do next in EID prayer cause it comes after a long time. It's like lagging irl. Also, a part of the discussion was done in HL heart to heart session. Any plans to join heart to heart?
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Glad to see a smile on your face. Much LOVE! Much WOW!
I think every wife has good power to manipulate her husband specially in case of decision making 🙂. ( My opinion)
Yes. We need to wait a whole year for the Eid. And in our childhood times, it was our only income source because of what it was the most eagerly awaited festival for us...
Obviously, why not!!!!
Your pocket money would be on Eid days, I was the favorite in getting pocket money. I have my own charm in my pocket money collection, another smell caster in the family.
Thank you @dlmmqb for sharing your childhood memories. Your grandmother seems to have been a source of much joy and love for you and your siblings. I particularly loved the story of the chocolate coins. I also enjoyed your sister's magical tale of fairies. It's amazing how creative children can be in their play and how they can find magic in everyday things.
Regarding the topic of cultural limitations on marriage, I appreciate that you shared your perspective. It is unfortunate that in our culture individuals may face restrictions on their choice of partner based on factors such as race, religion or sect. But we are lucky enough to have parents who gave me and my siblings the freedom to choose our partners. I believe that everyone deserves the right to marry whomever they want, regardless of any external factors.
Great to hear that you started saving at a young age and learned the value of building good habits. I have been very bad at saving since childhood.
I really enjoyed reading your post. Keep shining 🫣
Thanks for your comment, It's my pleasure that you visited me. My favorite was the glowing face story.
Marriage is discussed in my multiple blogs with a similar theme cause of my views about it.
(Iook awhile to find THIS, My Dreams: LOVE HURTS!)
Here you can also see I am talking about increasing chances to marry whoever we want.
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YUP, Saving is the only thing I can do, even better than spending. My family worries that my future partner is also like me a SUPER SAVER. But I made 35/35/35 or 75/25 budget for spending too so I can always have goals on where to spend next. I am too calculated in financing and like low risk. Even in crypto days of 1000% aprs I prefer 0% on physical gold. Also, a huge fan of rental income commercial properties.
Your grandmother is a smart woman. I am in love with that white lie perhaps I should tell that also to my kids 😂; a sweet way of building a good habit.
I am teaching my children savings now...each time they get money gift, they are always in a haste to buy chocolate, or sharwama, however little savings should be encouraged in children as it will be a solid foundation that will help them as an Adult when it comes to savings and the likes..
I love your childhood stories, it was a fun read, by the way, your sister is so funny with her tricks 😂, I expected her to learn her lesson at first but no, she made same mistake.. hehehe
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story with us my friend 👍🥰
I am still waiting to listen to the lies you tell your children. I had too high hopes but you told the lies your parents told. I also wanna know what this generation is believing in. Send as a dm if it's not something for a blog.
Oh, don't remind me of shawarma. I saw that famous shawarma belly-shaking guy and bought two (why two? I eat ALOT haha). It was ehhhh, hated every sauce of the shawarma at least which I bought. I am not touching shawarma again unless I find a good shop. These shops on the street are not always good. My mouth was on fire with spices and it's not even like I don't enjoy spicy. It's about how it was not spread equally.
Noted about sister part. I might write a separate blog on grandma, looks like a lot of you guys wanna know about her. Maybe a biography from my POV.
Alright...I will drop some of the lies in your DM later 😂.... Well, the question said the lies our parents told us, that's why I concentrated on myself and not the one I told my kids but it's fine... touching that part would have made a lot of sense anyways..
Hahaha 😂😂🤣🤣
Some shop are just a mess when it comes to sharwama...I had a bad experience with one shop in Jan and since then, I don't buy from them. I already discovered a good shop who knows what they are doing...if care is not taken, I will spend most of my hard earned money there 😂😂😂... it's just too yummy 😋🤤 and I love spices ...
For your grandma please do and tag me👍😇
When people are around us, we don't give much attention to them but when they shift to our photo albums permanently, we have to wear glasses and zoom the pictures which we didn't realize when they were with us.
Looks like someone liked the writing too much ;)
Lol just when we thought your sister learnt her lesson, no she didn't! 🤣 That was hilarious.
Your grandma is a very interesting woman, I can't stop imagining how she was cutting vegetables in the dark just to prove to you that you were glowing... Or maybe you really were glowing 😳 it could be right? 😅
Saving that much at such a young age? You're a direct opposite of who I was at that age, I was so good at spending 🤣
This was fun to read Mr Bot 🙌
My sister will also read this blog from web2. Although she have a web3 account but she never use it even for commenting or content consumption only. So yup, she will definitely read your comment.
I think my grandma developed a fanbase, through my blogs talking about her. Maybe she deserves a seperate blog. I might give it a try. ;)
I literally have to make calculated budget of spending just from FOMO, you might remember my spending calculated budget in city.
Also, bot joke is forever lasting ♾️
Last time someone unfollowed me misunderstanding the bot joke 🤣
Haha I'd be honored to have your sister read my comment hehe
A separate blog for grandma will definitely have my follow 😅 she's an interesting one really.
Yeah, I saw that... You're good, keep it up hehe.
I'm still surprised about that joke outcome with the person lol
I love the stories!
especially the grandmother one, suuuper cute!
As for the marriage... reading it from a spanish person perspective, that sounds sooo crazy
I mean you can pretty much do whatever you want with whoever you want.
I hope more freedom spread thro all the countries, cause everyone deserves to choose their future!
All the young stories are fun! The marriage one not so fun :( that happens in lots of cultures
Why u always see through the matrix xD
I'm glad we didn't have that fairy thing here but still, my older sisters makes me do thier chores when I was younger while they are all on their phone and TV.
Im happy you did not hold grudge on your sister on wjat she sdid way back.
Elders had their advantages (sometimes too bossy. More bossier than office bosses haha) but we young also got many advantages. :)
I don't hold grudges in the Family. We can choose friends but we can't choose family. I love my sister a lot. But if you ask my Google Assistant "What sister, I don't like?", it will answer in her name. My google assistant funny jokes a lot. I say stuff to poke friends and family and google assistant reply whatever I set a reminder. It's funny to see their faces. :)
Well mine did, 😂. That's a lovely family you had
Hahaha 🤣 you see what I love about your groundmother is that she knows how to trick you two and that is the wisdom of an elderly person.
But wait all the images belongs to you? Including all this cutie guy up there?
Is that you?
Like seriously 😳?
Just kidding but you look cute anyway 😁
Thanks for the compliment ☺️
You are always welcome 🤗
Wow, I that story of you and your sister, she must be very smart, Kai, she must have loved taking chocolate, I enjoyed reading the article.
I am unaware of meaning of "Kai", please enlighten me. :)
Kai is a Hausa word, one of the three major languages in Nigeria, it means, wow.
Thanks. Will try to remember it. :)
You are welcome.
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Nice to meet you.
I knew you are a software dev from twitter interactions. Nice to know you are from Venezuela. On PC it shows the tag but on mobile, we need to click what role is assigned in the member tag. Can you teach me chess? Gave me an idea, chess might be something we can do in HL but competitive elimination rounds, not just players' random games. But I am not sure HL will allow it.
If you have any ideas for HL related to your interests let me know especially in #creative-sunday. We allow science experiments in HL too.
Sure, you can join https://lichess.org. It's a whole chess site, one of the most popular out there. There's a section about chess basics under the learn menu. That can help you if you're a beginner.
We have several chess leagues hosted by hivers. The most active one is #hivechess, hosted by @stayoutoftherz on Saturday. My closer team (@chessbrotherspro) also hosts chess leagues. We're considering resuming them in the near future. We can talk more about it if you have other ideas, such an initiative, etc.
Noted. Yeah, I've noticed many science related posts on Hive Learners.
Cheers.
Noted, I will try to learn chess. I play this game on pc with patterns drawn about what do what. So I will be interested to improve my play.
I am not sure chess is something we can do for now but for future, ya it's a good thing to do. Noted. Maybe in future when things get serious, it would be considered. Currently it's just a dream. I tried to pass a proposal to allow moba games in HL but it was put on pending. Let's see if it gets rejected currently. :)
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wow finally know what you look like :o
I never tried to hide it. :)
ya I just never saw it until now :D
I appreciate you sharing your early recollections and the life lessons you took away from them. Thinking back on our history and how it influenced who we are today is always intriguing. Your advice on money management and the value of surprises in life is especially appreciated. Keep up the excellent job!