Every remote in my parents’ house has been carefully sealed in plastic. As I’ve come to find out, our family isn’t alone in this peculiar ritual.
We have remote controls in our house that are in mint condition – many of which have outlasted the actual equipment it was intended for. Perhaps my parents intended to pass these remotes onto future generations.
Now, this obsession for wrapping items in plastic doesn’t just apply to remote controls. Car seats, sofa seats, books and plastic linings on televisions and displays are all fair game.
So the obvious question is: which Indian family started this tradition of wrapping objects in plastic for preservation? Is this a phenomenon only observed in Indian households abroad, or does this apply to fellow Desi’s living in India.
Because inquiring minds want to know.
-Krishna
P.S. And, yeah, my sister calls me ‘Dude’. 
Hi Krishna, I know people in Spain with similar behaviors, they left the stickies on their brand new laptops, tv´s, enclose remote on plastic bags and enclose too brand new car seats.
Calm Krishna, you are not alone… XD
I know some Singaporeans do the same. My family does it for some of our remotes, certainly not all of them at any rate.
Great strip.
Thanks Dan and Randy. Glad to know that our family isn’t alone in this…
The punjabs here do it too.
US West Coast thing that has kind of abated over time. My parent’s friends would have all the furniture covered with that clear vinyl plastic, the more creative would make fitted, sewn vinyl slipcovers. The backside of the material had these antislip sharp diamond projections that left indentations on the upholstery. Nasty stuff to sit upon on a hot day with bare legs as you’d stick to it. I still to this day cannot abide the smell of vinyl.