I remember when I was a kid, when on one occasion my grandmother gave me a small coin and very seriously said "List everything at once".
It was such a small denomination, probably half as much as this red one is today, that spending it in a day, an hour, a minute, or perhaps best to say a few seconds was very certain.
I paid for five video game chips or three pool chips with that bill.
Some candy, juice or some snack, I couldn't calculate if I would buy even one chips.
And this red one, which today has a value of 10 USD, is suitable for the topic that galenkp has given us for this weekend.
What would you do this weekend if your entire spending budget was $10 and you had to spend it on entertainment?
It would not be a weekend of fun, but a weekend where I would have to demonstrate the art of survival.
Considering that for one red (1000 dinars or $10), in the city where I live, I can eat half a portion of burritos and drink a bottle of water, I think that, after the end of that weekend, I would wake up hungry, thirsty and ready to write about another topic this week:
What was your worst weekend experience
A weekend I had to survive on $10 and have fun doing it?
This half portion is not ordered for this reason ($10), but since we don't like to waste food, we order as much as we can eat.
My portion was whole, and without any entertainment during the weekend, I could afford it if I took the money for two weekends, i.e. two red...
Before I write how I could have fun all weekend with $10 in my pocket, I could write what I wouldn't do that weekend.
I wouldn't wake up early in the morning on Saturday to go shopping (because $10 isn't even enough for groceries for one meal, let alone weekend shopping), I wouldn't go for a long walk, because when I walk, I sometimes drink some juice, eat something sweet.
I would walk around the neighborhood between the buildings, like a stray dog 🙂
I wouldn't arrange to go to one of the cafes where I regularly drink coffee or the pastry shop where I eat cakes or ice cream.
I wouldn't go to the store and buy waterproofing coating for the patio, which I planned to repair tomorrow (because that coating alone costs 3 reds).
I wouldn't buy the beer I like to taste when I'm not working, because besides beer I wouldn't have money for bread either.
I probably wouldn't even go to my friend's birthday, to our favorite restaurant that we go to regularly, because I wouldn't be able to buy him a present, for which I usually need 5 reds.
While listing what I wouldn't do this weekend, I listed what I plan to do 🙂 which is again related to another topic:
What are you doing, or have you done, this weekend.
And if I really had to spend the whole weekend with only $10, I would probably take a little walk in nature (although the weekend is predicted to be low temperature and rain), to breathe in the fresh, non-office air, for lunch I would cook some soup with which I could fill my stomach for those two days, I would crawl under the blanket and binge watch series on Netflix (which was paid for before I stayed on $10).
If I could count on $10 from my partner, that would be something...
With $20, I would buy some more groceries, cook some slightly tastier meal for two days for two of us, pop a full bowl of popcorn, make pancakes (sprinkled them with sugar, because I wouldn't have enough money for Nutella), make tea and spend the whole weekend walking with her around the neighborhood, to freeze a little in this harsh weather and temperature of 8°C, and then go home, in a poorly heated apartment (because the heating season hasn't started yet and the heating plant is only doing warm tests remote heating), crawled under the blanket and spent the rest of both days watching series and movies on TV.
Which wouldn't be so bad, right?
