In this week's Money section in The National, we examine the sharing economy and how renting or borrowing items can be more cost-effective than buying. In addition, we profiled UAE residents who have decided to live a simpler life, ridding themselves of personal possessions and only keeping what they need.
Those interested in leading a similar lifestyle, should tune into the advice from the professional organiser Shelina Jokhiya, managing director of Decluttr Me. Here she recommends 20 ‘must not-have’ items that you can clear out from your home today:
Electronics
1. Boxes - either for your devices such as Apple products, kitchen gadgets, shoes boxes and cereal boxes
2. Broken electronics - irons, blenders, vacuum cleaners
3. Power cords including USB cords that don’t fit into anything you have now
Kitchen items
4. Mismatched glasses and crockery
5. Electronic kitchen gadgets
6. Useless kitchen contraptions - banana slicers or milk frothers
Paper products and stationery
7. Scrap paper
8. Old Newspapers and Magazines (Time Out 2011 is obsolete)
9. Receipts, unless they have a warranty on them
10. Take away menus – order online instead
Toiletries
11. Make-up used or unused
12. Out of date medicine - hand them over at your local pharmacy.
13. Toiletries you do not use - all those moisturisers, spray tans and bubble baths
Clothing
14. Spare buttons
15. Old bed sheets and extra sets
16. Items you bought and never returned to the shop that will never fit
17. Hangers from dry cleaners
Miscellaneous
18. Spare change - take it to the bank or give it to charity
19. Anything in those unopened goody bags including mugs, key chains, flash drives, leaflets, etc
20. Candles that you don’t like using
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Pharaoh's curse
British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to find the Tutankhamun tomb, died in a Cairo hotel four months after the crypt was opened.
He had been in poor health for many years after a car crash, and a mosquito bite made worse by a shaving cut led to blood poisoning and pneumonia.
Reports at the time said Lord Carnarvon suffered from “pain as the inflammation affected the nasal passages and eyes”.
Decades later, scientists contended he had died of aspergillosis after inhaling spores of the fungus aspergillus in the tomb, which can lie dormant for months. The fact several others who entered were also found dead withiin a short time led to the myth of the curse.
If you go
The flights
Emirates and Etihad fly direct to Nairobi, with fares starting from Dh1,695. The resort can be reached from Nairobi via a 35-minute flight from Wilson Airport or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, or by road, which takes at least three hours.
The rooms
Rooms at Fairmont Mount Kenya range from Dh1,870 per night for a deluxe room to Dh11,000 per night for the William Holden Cottage.
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How to wear a kandura
Dos
- Wear the right fabric for the right season and occasion
- Always ask for the dress code if you don’t know
- Wear a white kandura, white ghutra / shemagh (headwear) and black shoes for work
- Wear 100 per cent cotton under the kandura as most fabrics are polyester
Don’ts
- Wear hamdania for work, always wear a ghutra and agal
- Buy a kandura only based on how it feels; ask questions about the fabric and understand what you are buying
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