I’ve been in a lot of frummy homes in my day, I myself grew up in a very non-frummy home – complete with swimsuit models adorning our walls and the large television. We had very few seforim that were in public, my fathers gemara of the week and a mikraos gedolos which my father used, besides this we had a lot of 70’s records and there was no case of silver bechers and besamin boxes – a very non-frummy home indeed. Frummy homes contain most of the following, I am generalizing here – so forgive me if I forgot any or crossed these ideas with less than frummy-home types.
20 ways to know you’re in a frummy house:
They get the hamodia daily as their newspaper
The only secular magazines they have are reader’s digest and consumer reports
There are washing cup basins in the bedrooms
The artwork is all pictures of gedolim
They have one of those “do not speak LH” placards on their kitchen table
They have an official nosh cabinet
All of the products in the kitchen are heimishe brands
The seforim stretch as far as the eye can see and the English seforim are a few books about shidduchim
There are no artscroll translated seforim
There are copies of binah and mishpacha scattered about
There is no computer to be seen (hidden away)
You see random hat boxes lying around
On the front door, there is a glass etching with script Hebrew writing welcoming you to mishpachas (enter frum family name)
They have asher yatzar signs by the bathrooms
They have a shtender in their living room
They have a very large case of silver stuff like besamin boxes and challah boards
All of their board games are Jewish like kosherland
They have random Chinese auction catalogs on the kitchen table
There is a radio in the kitchen surrounded by yeshiva boys choir and Shweky CD’s
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