To make the morning easier, the wife makes milk tea in the evening and keeps it in a thermos
He was born in Fungling Municipality-9, Hangdewa of Taplejung, but now he lives in Dokhu, Ward No. 8. I am 49 years old. I am staying at home with my wife Saraswati. Two sons and one daughter live in Dudhe of Jhapa.
They are also having to spend their daily living. Within 7 o'clock, you should be able to reach the place where the veneer is removed from the wood. So I wash my hands early and drink tea and leave home.
Wife makes milk tea in the evening and puts it in a thermos to make it easier in the morning. We buy a liter of milk by paying 70 rupees a day to make tea and curd. If you come home at 9:30 in the morning and don't return to work by 10:00 after eating, your wages will be cut . One kilo of rice for two people, which is delivered in the evening-morning, costs 130 rupees . At lunch time at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Saraswati sometimes serves noodles with greens and sometimes fried rice . Sometimes spit is also eaten . It costs 25/30 rupees a day for lunch .
Even if you don't have Amal, you spend 500 rupees on the day of the week's wages. After that, the wife mixes millet, rice, corn and khundo to prepare herself and the guest. 5 kg of khundo is 375 rupees . The price of one bushel of millet is 250 and that of maize is 200 . 1000 grains should be cooked at a time while calculating the ingredients needed to make a jar. Elderly people pay 500 and eat a kilo of meat one day in a week. Apart from this, sugar, tea color, pepper, cumin, fenugreek, jawanu and other spices should be brought from the shop. Vegetables including greens, potatoes are grown on two plantations.
A dozen soaps cost 500 rupees. When removing the wooden chapari, the clothes get dirty, so you have to change them every day. Bath soap costs Rs 80 per month. It is customary to give meat and tonga to guests. Nowadays, guests come who don't eat tongba but want rum or beer . A day's guest expenses are from 1000 to 1500 rupees. If you cook delicious meat for the guests, a pot of oil worth 125 rupees can be used up in 3/4 days.
It is customary to give expenses to daughters-daughters, nephews-nieces when they come back. A few days ago, when my younger sister came from Fidim, I paid 2,000 for her travel expenses . I gave new clothes worth two thousand. If the veneer work lasts for a whole month, I will save the same two/four thousand by cutting the expenses . I will send the saved money to my daughter .
Veneerwala used to pay 1200 per day but now it has been reduced to 1000 . If you can get a casual job at the rate of 1000 per day, you would earn 30000 per month . However, there is no source of income as there is no work at all times. Haven't opened a bank account yet. As soon as I get the salary, I will bring it and hand it over to Saraswati.
Every 6/6 months, you have to buy five/seven thousand clothes at a time by buying vests, shorts, pants, trousers, kattu-ganji. In village houses, weddings, barkhants etc., cash is needed for gifts. For that, one thousand rupees should be kept at home. It is customary to pay between 250 to 1,000 rupees according to your relationship.
It didn't cost much to walk around the mountain first. Now, one-way auto fare from home to Fungling, the headquarters, costs 70 rupees. Sometimes, if there are no other passengers, they take 2/300 rupees to reserve. When you work everyday, you don't get debt, but you don't have savings either .
There is no cost for education as the children have grown up. Once I went to Terai to work. There was a daily wage of eight hundred. I came back to the village because I got 200 rupees more daily for woodworking in the mountains. Three years ago, I bought two plantations of land for three lakh rupees with the savings I made through suffering. I built a house on that land by spending one lakh.
presentation : Anand Gautam
