Wouldn’t you just love if you could have the perfectly instagrammable life, with a thousand likes and “MashAllah, MashAllah” from your khala ki friend ki beti that you were friends with six years ago?
Here are some “tried and tested” totkay to help turn your bad luck around.
Editor’s note: Most of these probably won’t help you…
Wear gemstones
Think about it this way, you’re killing two birds with one stone(see what I did there). You’re slaying fashion wise and you’re warding off all bad luck. Although make sure, your yakoot is original and not a plastic knock-off that will do nothing but bring gossip at work, your way.
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Every day before you leave your house, make sure you put on some surma
It refreshes your eyes and the black color helps ward off other’s evil eye. Also, chipmunk eyes are all the rage these days.
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There’s this remedy that if you burn some mirchein you are burning away all the bad luck
So give that a try, will you? Make sure you’re wearing a mask, you don’t want to sneeze out your lungs with all the chili fumes.
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Here’s one more way to ward off bad luck: Salt
Yeah a common every day item. Place a bit of salt (mind you it’s supposed to be rock salt not the regular one) in the four corners of the room you are in and see the bad luck evaporate!
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While we’re on food give away some daal to bring some good luck to your life
You must have heard of daal donations on Thursdays, no? Well, it’s supposed to bring you luck to feed someone.
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Pimp up your ride with some kala kapra
This is a tried and tested method of desi aunties to knock away any nazar especially on the new car you bought from all your savings.
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Burn some incense A.K.A agarbatti
Lighting some agarbatti is a tried and tested method of keeping a place smelling like a witch’s cauldron yet warding off evil at the same time. No wonder they light it at khatams.
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Listen to mommy dearest and let her do some sadqay
You are after all the apple of her eyes, regardless how much of a galla hua apple you actually are 😉
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Be generous
Here’s a no brainer. Making charity is a very good way to ward off evil. That’s the reason all ammis say saadqa de do.
If your ammi isn’t right by, maybe give her a call and ask her for some good advice on how to turn any bad luck into some good, good luck
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