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Meera Shamma

42 Random Objects You’ll Find In Every Lebanese Household

If you’re Lebanese – at least half of these random objects can be found in your house, this is a fact.


1. The blue coffee pot




2. The fancy chocolate box

Usually from Patchi.


3. The normal chocolate cabinet

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


Image courtesy of Pinterest


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.