Hello Hive friends, It's Friday again and it's time for @dswigle's #marketfriday. I am so glad to have made it today, I miss you all.
So it's past half of the month and I had my first pay. I don't hold my ATM since I only go from home to work and vice versa and I surrendered it to my husband. Don't get me wrong but I am bad at budgeting and it makes my head sore. I don't want anymore problems so I handed it to him yet I am in charge of buying what we need.
last night, when I got out from work, my husband dropped me off at a grocery store. This is by far the cheapest( no wonder the busiest ) in our place since our suki had stopped selling and closed her store. It's too bad to see every time we pass by their place but he deserved it a retirement after selling for over thirty years.
So here are some snaps I took from last night;
I had 500 pesos with me, that's roughly ten US dollars; I bought 2 liters of bleach in two variants; one-liter bleach for whites and one-liter of bleach for colored clothes, 800 grams of detergent powder, two sachets of bath soap, 6 sachets of toothpaste, two detergent bar soaps, and a dozen sachets of shampoo.
I spent almost 40ur hundred pesos, pricey, isn't it? But I think it's better to buy this way. What I bought could last for a month, depending on how often we bathe or how often we wash clothes. haha!
So our washing machine was broken and we wash by hand now. it's laborious but we had to since we could run out of clothes, especially the kids. I loved to buy in bulk even if I buy in sachets because It's a lot cheaper. Imagine the shampoo I bought only costs 6 pesos and 25 cents here but if I buy it outside in retail stores, It costs 8 pesos.
A sachet of shampoo could only last for a day for us since I and my kids bathe almost every day. It's just that my husband and son sometimes bathe at Nanay's house and the allocation for them gets extended for the next day.
Now back to the store:
There is always a long queue at the counter but that night I am so patient to wait for the sake of some pesos to be saved. The store is huge but since they have lots of stocks displayed, it had gotten a lot tighter. Also, the men who work for them carry 50-kilogram sacks of rice on their heads from their warehouse to the outmost part of the store using the same space the customers wait in line.
Sulit marketing store has got almost everything one needs! They got an assortment of stocks like rice, oil, margarine, butter, sugar, baking papers, baking powders, soft drinks, diapers, frozen processed foods, coffee, cream, popcorn, flour, notebooks, pencils, and many more! Ooh, at the counter they got "organic lettuce too!
I was not able to take a photo of what I bought since we ransacked them as soon as we arrived home soaking the laundry for this morning's laundry session. Yet too bad, we were not able to finish washing everything we prepared and I hope we could continue tonight and our weekends will be free.
This will be all for my #marketfriday post, thank you so much