Thursday, August 16

cost of living, here and there

CHEAP. When I arrived in the country, I changed enough money to live for a couple of days where I come from. Well it's been a week, and I've still got all these notes to spend, but there's nothing I need. Even several massages a day won't get rid of much. If I can't make more of an effort, I could always make a beggar's day.

EXPENSIVE. Including lost wages, this trip has cost me NSCal$ 20000. Still, that's less than the cellmate has blown meantime on our redecorations. Which is the worse bargain?

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  1. Albert? 20,000 dollars?!! That's a lot of massages!!! Hotboy

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  2. Albert? Has anyone offered you drugs? Don't they have a big methamphetamine problem there? Anybody offer you weed? Just wondering! Hotboy

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  3. Hotters, because I'm so normal, nobody offered me anything.

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  4. Albert? What did you spend the 20,000 dollars on then? Hotboy

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  5. Well from one point of view using your money for a good holiday is grand. You can't take the money with you but I think we carry our memories.

    However from another view having your home redecorated is an investment in continued comfort. As long as your input was included.

    Donate the excess to a local monastery who will use it to help folks in need.

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  6. Hotters. Disappointingly, they don't let you into the hotels and planes for nothing. Just as well really, or how would they keep the riff raff out? No offence.

    Nanners. I suppose they're both better uses than Albert's cellmate's purchase of a new car to avoid repairing the dent she put in her old one.

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  7. I find that a sad purchase indeed. But I am troubled by blatant consumerism.

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