cracker budgets

mmm.. you are saved, this is not a story. this is just a factual recollection :) 2nd standard - mani mama's thala deepavali and he chose to celebrate with us. Hence brought one big suitcase full of crackers. I would arrange and rearrange them n number of times per day. and i saved some of them till another 2 more years. 3rd - bad year. remember getting budget of around 35 rupees and cycling downtown in thirupattur to buy crackers on the last but one day or so. 4th - now we are long timers in tirupattur and we know where to get. went with amma to a whole sale shop in the first floor on top of the medical shop and bought for almost 125 rupees :) 7th : arvind gifted me a very heavy almost real pistol like cap-gun 8th-10th : seenu kumaran would anyway buy lots and we would anyway be near their house. so dont matter that we dint buy much. these are what i remember most.