Can you survive with $5 a week?

[Starmix]

If you are single , I think you can survive with only $ 5 a week. Those who are married five dollars is only good for a single day with too much budgeting of food. That amount is too small but buy only what's essential that could satisfy your daily needs. In my case, I cannot manage to live with that amount, $5 a week, especially this time when prices are high.

 

[magnus2022]

In this present economy, $5 can not do much for even single person to talk more of family. The economy is biting hard and all essential foods are costly and unreachable for ordinary people.

 

[eLdavis]

I highly doubt i would be able to survive a week with this amount, especially in situations were unexpected expenses comes up.

 

[Starmix]

It's indeed hard to survive with that amount of five dollars but if you have a vegetable garden with spices inclusive you can survive. Also if you homestead some chickens for meat then there's nothing impossible to live with family tummy always full.

 

[Augusta]

I can't sustain self with such amount maybe I can manage with that for a day or two but definitely not for a week

 

[Starmix]

Fruits here are also expensive. The $5 is only good for 3 kilos of watermelon. Prices this time are insanely high. We have to work harder and create a small business as much as possible as there is money every day.

 

[King Belieal]

Yesterday alone, I spent close to 5 dollars. I can't survive with that amount even for three days. Unless I would just don't live.

 

[Starmix]

Five dollars is indeed too small for a week and foremost in a day's survival. Let alone the price of fish is almost $10 a kilo but for small fish, one can buy one kilo of fish at $ 5.

 

[Fidelia]

I can do seven dollars a week. That's about one dollar in a day. I think I can manage that to survive daily.

 

[Springtime]

The cost of living is high here. Don't think I can survive with $5 a week unless I just eat bread every day.

 

[Starmix]

The cost of living is high here. Don't think I can survive with $5 a week unless I just eat bread every day.

Our body needs nutrients so when you eat only bread most likely you won't get extra energy. We can still have other means to add up to our daily expenses.

 

[freelancermaria]

Inflation has made life more challenging. I can manage as long as I’ve taken care of my grocery shopping. There are days when I don’t spend a single penny at all.

 

[Starmix]

Inflation has made life more challenging. I can manage as long as I’ve taken care of my grocery shopping. There are days when I don’t spend a single penny at all.

I bet, you're good at it my friend. You can surely do it spending nothing in a week if you buy in bulk weekly. I experienced it once and may ecosystems it again during the long week Holy Week.

 

[Suba]

Of course it is not enough if only $5 to survive in a week, every lunch I spend almost $2, dinner is also almost the same, so the cost of living alone is also very expensive, not to mention transportation, and other needs such as breakfast etc.

 

[Starmix]

Indeed $5 is too small to serve anyone for one week. But if you're working online, you may survive with five dollars in a week that's of you are also single. That money could suffice through right budgeting, lol.

 

[Suba]

Even though we live alone and are still single, but if only $5 is too small, if we cook rice, side dishes bought outside are also expensive, if we cook everything of course it will also take a lot of time and our online work may not be done.

 

[Nomad]

In my home country, even a single person cannot survive with $5 per week, however, it might be possible to survive with $5 per day

 

[Trush Jodie]

Maybe, someone that is living with parents would be able to survive with 5 dollars in a week. But not one that is living alone.

 

[Augusta]

Surviving with this can be done but to survive well with it might just be difficult. But one can still manage with this that's the truth

 

[Starmix]

Five dollars a week may or may not sustain by a single person because of the high cost of commodities this time. However if he or she has a veggie garden, $5 could sustain for a week.