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Wednesday 10 February 2016

How to survive 20k or less in a month


With the prevailing economic situation in this country, we have companies paying 20k or less than that as salaries, and even the mininum wage is pegged at 18k by the government for
civil servants,
So the question is ,how do you survive and pay your bills earning 20k or less?,
Here is how you do it hungryboy style,

Step 1- stock up on foodstuffs,
Below is a latest foodstuff and price list i just drew up for this month.

Garri -1500(at 7 cups for 100 =105 cups)
Beans- 2000(hausa men sell at 40naira per
cup =50cups)
Rice= 2400(at 60naira per cup=40cups)
Yam= 2000
Kerosene= 10 litres(could cost 1k or less)
Palm oil=400naira
Pepper=100naira
Maggi= 100naira
Salt= 50naira
Other foodstuffs(crayfish, melon, okra, fish etc)
= 3k
Total = 11,550naira,

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Lol the Gilbertian.hmmm I actually don't know the yardstick which you carried out your survey. It is possible for a single guy to survive with 20k only if you are trekking to work, staying under someone and also not doing anything else except feeding alone.My dear you ve not even considered the geographical locale of the person. It easy to survive with 20k in taraba but how possible is it in abuja or Lagos or even akwa ibom?