Bundle Winter Clothing......

It's foggy and very cold indeed ..it's raining this morning . Feel a bless since it hasn't been raining for more than a month. In this time of season , it usually rains almost every other day, but not this year...Alhamdulillah, it finally rains.

This morning I read the online papers that many states in malaysia are being hit by heavy rain and flood...I'm hoping my house back there is/will not be affected,InsyaAllah.

Talking about cold winter season I can't help myself but to ponder and think of how the Palestinian refugees in Baqa'ah camp(I visited this camp last Ramadan ) are dealing with their life in their barely completed 'houses', I did mention that some of the houses didn't even have fully-covered roofs.How they survive, only God knows...feeling so sorry for them, I think they must be wearing so many layers of winter jackets and have their gas heater lit all day long in their 'shelters'.I have this idea in mind because winter jackets are easy and cheap here in Jordan.At least the chances of anybody to be deadly cold of nothing to wear is out of question. One can buy a thick and fairly good quality winter jacket for less than jd5(RM26) . No kidding at all..

Where can you get this low price winter jackets??

BUNDLE MARKET..yes the bundle market and bundle stores offer you all kinds of assential items at extremely low prices.

When I was in malaysia I never thought of buying bundle products due to my detest for the bundle(used shirts/shoes etc.)I had once tried to get a winter jacket before moving abroad at a pasar malam bundle stall..i couldn't bear the 'body-odour' from the bundle stall itself. maybe they sold the shirts without properly washed/cared, well i don't know. I have friends back then who even bought bundle bedsheet/bedspread and I was like...yucky.. they told me that those bedsheet were from luxury hotels and the quality was so irresistable but I didn't believe anything they said.

However, when I moved to Amman last year, I remember my eldest son Zaid brought me for the first time to ABdali Friday Bundle Market .... I was so shocked to see how the people of amman love bundle items..I call amman people because I could see many foreigners ( chinese/europeans/indians/africans and of course malaysians) were at the bundle market and were busy picking and choosing items sold there.My mind started to think ..wow !! bundle is not only for 'poor' people but it's going global.....You could see men in fully-well-built body and high -class attire are buying bundle jackets and boots/shoes...This couldn't be true... First visit there I ended up buying 3 new pairs of socks for mimi...(Memang tak boleh beli lagi bundle masa tu teringat yang pakaian tu bekas orang dah guna!! )

That was a year ago...

Yesterday I asked zaid to come with me to the bundle market...I bought mimi a very nice winter jacket for only jd3. I wasn't feel guilty buying used jacket for mimi because that jacket is a lot more expensive if I bought it from a shopping mall. As for me, so far I only have 2 winter coats and both are brand-new .Even yesterday I saw many beautiful, new-like winter jackets selling for only jd5 but I just wouldn't buy it , lagipun dah ada 2 dan nak pakai dalam masa 3 bulan je..

Other than clothing(including underwears??? zaid kata memang ada kawan2 dia beli 'original-levi's underwears' ) ,the bundle markets sell many other things like books/magazines, household items and so on. So yesterday I bought myself 3 old english best-selling novels and 1 hard cover documentary on the KIng of Jordan for less than jd7 . So next week I'll have a lot of reading on my way...

Let's come back to the baqa'ah camp refugees that I mentioned earlier..I really hope the NGOs (there are many NGOs there but still not enough) are continuously helping and assisting the refugees in this winter season in terms of providing better homes & clothing....

Without bundle life might be different for the people in jordan especially at this time of the year....BUNDLE SURE DOES HELP A LOT...