Cost of grocery shopping
Living comfortably these days require a lot of effort. You really need to work very, very hard to earn more than enough money to spend for yourself and your family. I know that. But the impact was so great yesterday when we went grocery shopping. I have limited resources these days, my savings just spent for the new desktop and some things my siblings needed. So you can imagine that the money I have left is really budgeted. Yesterday, I told my siblings that we should just buy the basic things we need at home. No food to be stored in the ref yet as we would just buy it this weekend when my next remittance comes in. But do you know that we still spent almost 5,000 pesos with those basic things we bought?
Just imagine if you are earning a minimum salary and you have more than two kids. How can you make both ends meet? We’re only talking about food here. What more if we include utilities and health care?
October 28th, 2008 at 2:27 am
The price of food has really gone up recently… it’s crazy. I’m all about shopping sales and using coupons. My last trip to the grocery I saved almost $50 off my $200 grocery trip!!
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October 28th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Hi Sash, i understand. Nung umuwi ako, sabi ko, super mahal na ang bilihin jan but it’s all a matter of budgeting. Maraming naghihirap but they still survive and send their kids to school. In our situation din dito mahirap so we decided to lessen our eating out.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Its hard these days. We really have to budget everything otherwise, wala matitira. Grabe no?
How are you Sasha?