What can you buy with one gig in your country? (Around The Globe Discussion)

[gig_freak]

Interesting topic, that I would like to hear different stories from sellers/buyers around the world. Where do you come from?What can be done with $5 in your country?

In Macedonia, you can go to a pub and drink 2-3 beers. You can have a “nice” dinner at a restaurant that is not too pricey. You can buy a few groceries for the day. But it’s not enough money, definitely to spend the day with.

Note: I live in the capitol city, so it’s a bit pricier than the other cities. Usually in the smaller cities you can do a lot more for $5.

[Guest offlinehelpers]

UK - $4 = £3.20 ish, a large cappucinno in Starbucks, so not very much at all really.

[jonahlovers]

i come from Nigeria and i could buy a shirt with one gig

[thewriterfiver]

Some cheap sandals, or a boxed lunch, or a huge bottle of coconut water, or four bus rides.

(Random maybe, but these are things I have actually bought)

Edit: I’m from Jamaica

[katakatica]

I could take the bus to the nearest town and back. I could get 5 quick coffees or a couple mini cakes in the town (village really) I live at. At where I’m from (I live in a different country now) I could go and happy a meal…
At McDonald’s 😃 or go to the capital from my town.

[n4y33m]

I’m from Bangladesh. I can go out, have my launch at restaurant, take a bus and return home with a 1 liter Coca-Cola 😇

[emmaki]

The square root of Sweet FA outside of some cheaper drinks (non-alcoholic) and cheap food. Outside of that, idk, maybe some junk from a Chinese discount outlet store?

Greece has stupidly high taxes for stupid reasons, so those need to be added onto the pittance…

[gig_freak]

On 3/28/2017 at 12:15 PM, emmaki said:

The square root of Sweet FA outside of some cheaper drinks (non-alcoholic) and cheap food. Outside of that, idk, maybe some junk from a Chinese discount outlet store?

Greece has stupidly high taxes for stupid reasons, so those need to be added onto the pittance…

Greece… I was in Thessaloniki two weeks ago, it’s really expensive. I feel you. : )

On 3/28/2017 at 12:16 PM, katakatica said:

I could take the bus to the nearest town and back. I could get 5 quick coffees or a couple mini cakes in the town (village really) I live at. At where I’m from (I live in a different country now) I could go and happy a meal…

At McDonald’s 😃 or go to the capital from my town.

Where are you from? You haven’t mentioned.

[asadtareq]

Where are you from? You haven’t mentioned.

Thanks for reply. I am from Bangladesh. And where are you from?

[manto2112]

4 lts of Coke.
A cheap bottle of rum or vodka.
A medium pizza with two or three toppings.
30 eggs.

[gig_freak]

4 lts of Coke.

A cheap bottle of rum or vodka.

A medium pizza with two or three toppings.

30 eggs.

Pretty much the same as in my country. Except, we can buy less eggs as one egg costs about 0.30 or 0.40. 🙂

[miroslavglavic]

Greece… I was in Thessaloniki two weeks ago, it’s really expensive. I feel you. : )

Greece is in an economical shit storm right now, hence things are more expensive.

[misscrystal]

For the $4 from one gig: two small bottles of water. Or a couple of small hamburgers at McDonalds. A bottle of katsup and of mustard in the grocery store, or a half gallon of non organic milk. 12 non organic eggs.
1.5 gallons of gasoline (petrol).

I buy organic milk and eggs to avoid the chemicals and pharmaceuticals in those products and they cost twice as much as regular non organic ones.

[nikavoice]

🇺🇸 ~ Shop at a Dollar Tree or something! They sell everything $1 makeup, nail polish, snacks, pet supplies, household stuff, decorations, birthday cards, and other cool shit. The cards & mylar balloons are pretty nice!

[miroslavglavic]

For the $4 from one gig: two small bottles of water. Or a couple of small hamburgers at McDonalds. A bottle of katsup and of mustard in the grocery store, or a half gallon of non organic milk. 12 non organic eggs.

1.5 gallons of gasoline (petrol).

I buy organic milk and eggs to avoid the chemicals and pharmaceuticals in those products and they cost twice as much as regular non organic ones.

out of curiosity @misscrystal , why organic? we are all going to die eventually.

[misscrystal]

out of curiosity @misscrystal , why organic? we are all going to die eventually.

@miroslavglavic I have a sensitive system. I can’t choke down most eggs for instance.

[gig_freak]

🇺🇸 ~ Shop at a Dollar Tree or something! They sell everything $1 makeup, nail polish, snacks, pet supplies, household stuff, decorations, birthday cards, and other cool shit. The cards & mylar balloons are pretty nice!

omething! They sell everything $1 makeup, nail polish, snacks, pet supplies, household stuff, decorations, birthday cards, and other cool shit. The cards & mylar balloons are pretty nice!

Yeah… I used to live in Columbus Ohio… also BigLots was cheap.

[miroslavglavic]

@miroslavglavic I have a sensitive system. I can’t choke down most eggs for instance.

regular bananas last about 15 days.

organic bananas - I tried them, they started going bad 24 hours, and by 3 days, they were mostly bad.

[Anna]

out of curiosity @misscrystal , why organic? we are all going to die eventually.

This question was directed to Misscrystal but a lot of people prefer to buy organic here in the US since a lot of food items contain synthetic growth hormones and antibiotics which is not the standard in most European countries.

It’s just gross!

[miroslavglavic]

This question was directed to Misscrystal but a lot of people prefer to buy organic here in the US since a lot of food items contain synthetic growth hormones and antibiotics which is not the standard in most European countries.

It’s just gross!

see my post above about bananas

[gig_freak]

regular bananas last about 15 days.

organic bananas - I tried them, they started going bad 24 hours, and by 3 days, they were mostly bad.

Being sarcastic? LOL

I study agricultural economics, and we learn abou things like that. On organic bananas producers don’t put pesticides, plant hormones and similar, that’s why that happens.

Anyway, are you from some of the EX-YU countries?

[deluxewriting]

I can buy a whole week’s ration for $5.

[misscrystal]

This question was directed to Misscrystal but a lot of people prefer to buy organic here in the US since a lot of food items contain synthetic growth hormones and antibiotics which is not the standard in most European countries.

It’s just gross!

Everything that should be natural and healthy is contaminated with chemicals here. That includes beef and chicken. It makes me ill to eat such garbage.

Organic food is the growing industry in the US.

[miroslavglavic]

On 3/28/2017 at 12:33 PM, gig_freak said:

Being sarcastic? LOL

I study agricultural economics, and we learn abou things like that. On organic bananas producers don’t put pesticides, plant hormones and similar, that’s why that happens.

Anyway, are you from some of the EX-YU countries?

yes

[Anna]

see my post above about bananas

Yes, I think it’s more so for dairy and meat.