Cleaning the house before Diwali is not a chore attached to the festival; in the tradition it is part of the festival. Lakshmi visits the clean house. The cleaning also has a practical shape: it is when the year’s accumulation is dealt with, the things that broke get fixed, and the home is reset.
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For a lot of Indian households, Diwali is the most expensive week of the year, and the one they plan least. The money goes out in a rush of small decisions in the last ten days, and the real total only becomes clear in December, when the credit card statement or the UPI history finally adds it up.
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