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A prominent Filipino-Australian family from Betoota’s Flight Path District have today shared some of their domestic shortcuts.
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Namely, keeping the TV remote fresher for longer, and in turn extending it’s shelf life.
The plastic-coating of everyday household items is a common occurrence within the Filipino diaspora, with reports of everyday items being placed in disposable Tupperware right across the Oceanic region, and further into the Americas and Europe.
However, while many look at it as simply a cultural quirk, Betoota’s Reyes family believe that cling wrap serves quite an important role in their day to day to lives, particularly when it comes to the remote.
“What you wanna do is keep it sealed the moment you get it out of the box” says Mr Emmanuel Reyes (55), patriarch of the Reyes household and prominent local businessman.
“You can get at least a couple more years out of them if you can limit their oxidations upon opening”
Similar to the Southern European migrant practices of heavily concreting their own properties, the Filipino-Australians are well known for their careful preservation of home-goods, from sentimental family heirlooms to random stuff they bought at Harvey Norman. Throught the use of cling wrap and old take away containers.
Earlier this year, it was reported that another prominent Filipino-Betootan family had confused their neighbours by not ‘cracking open the couches’ yet.
