Since you’re not allowed to touch the fancy chocolates, you get your fix from this cabinet, filled with Galaxy, Twix, and Maltesers.
4. The untouchable salon
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5. The massive jug of olive oil
Enough olive oil to get you through the next decade, and pressed from your family or your family friend’s olive trees.
6. The 1,000 lemons
Is this just in my house?
7. The bakhour
8. The cabinet filled with crystal glasses
Usually kept in the salon, the contents of this cabinet are more valuable to your mother than your own life.
9. The crystal ashtrays (strictly reserved for guests)
Cuz you gotta impress your guests with an obnoxiously extra ashtray.
10. The never-been-used piano
11. The family portrait
12. The biscuit tin container turned into a sewing kit
13. The antique phone
14. A random natural medicine in the fridge
Organic cough syrup made from Za’atar and refrigerated for a lifetime.
15. The extravagant chandeliers
16. The raw soaps and big name perfumes in the guest bathroom
17. The protective eye over the main door
Image courtesy of Etsy
18. Religious verses hung on the walls
19. One massive Quran or Bible
The bigger the better.
20. The portrait of the grandparents
No Lebanese household would be complete without a portrait of the patriarch and matriarch.
21. The arabesque doorstoppers
These are usually very heavy bags to be placed on the floor and adorned with authentic arabesque designs.
22. The wide array of Ajami carpets
23. The white floor tiles dotted with pieces of black marble
24. That one awkwardly placed armchair
Every Lebanese household has one armchair that no one sits on and is randomly placed somewhere in the house.
25. The bowl in the living room filled with random shit
This bowl will usually contain fucidin, a pencil, one random key and one random remote that no one knows what it connects to among several other completely useless objects.
26. A pile of ‘important’ papers
They’re important, but no one knows why.
27. The remote control protected with a plastic cover
So that the color of the buttons stay in tact, of course.
28. The bowl of fruits
29. The ancient white lace curtains
30. The painting of Lebanon done by a local artist
Featuring a Cedar tree and the sea.
31. The cabinet with over 5,000 DVDs
No one knows what to do with them.
32. The Fairouz CDs
The CD cases are empty because you’re mother is always playing them and Fairouz is the soundtrack of the household.
33. The Vape mosquito mechanism
34. The winter Abaya
Either black or brown and super warm.
35. The hot water bottle for your stomach
Usually a hue of faded blue or red.
36. The old coffee cups
37. The old school soubya
In the day3ahouse.
38. The old phone book
Filled with outdated contacts and disconnected phone lines.
39. The calendar posted on the family fridge
Dated back to 2007.
40. The box of exotic teas
Straight from India, but with the word ‘Lipton’ on them all.
41. Approximately 15-20 old CDs of NOW That’s What I Call Music!
42. Ugly childhood pictures in frames and placed on a table that is very visible for anyone who enters the house
These pictures will usually involve braces and awkward graduation photos.