Balancing Budgets: Gadgets and Grub on a Dime

Today started with a little low energy. I woke up tired because I slept really late. This was because yesterday night, MTN decided to give me a very bad network even with my 5G router, which made me stay up late at night to create my last post of the day.

I also planned on studying that night before going to bed, but somehow I got really hungry, went to make some Indomie to eat around 2 a.m., then after eating, I started listening to music and then slept off. I could not study any longer than I planned to because I was already pretty tired.

After waking up, I had to resume at the place of my IT, which lasted for about 3 hours, before coming back home. I got back home, and somehow I felt sleepy again. My plan was to study for hours today to fill up the space that I was not able to fill yesterday but slept off eventually.

When I woke up, I had to get to the pharmacy to get medicine for a sore throat, which I had been feeling since the beginning of the day, and also to get insecticide, as I have been seeing a lot of mosquitoes in my room lately. I need to protect myself from having malaria.

I spared the whole house, then visited a friend not far from my place to stay for a while before heading back home. Almost every day I have a meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This meeting is about video editing, and I must confess, I am a little tired of it because I face issues with the internet, and I would love to use the time to do other things instead.

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My friend joined me back at my place while I attended my meeting. Then we started to discuss how easy it is to spend money to buy gadgets, but buying food for the house is always a problem for us. For over two months, there has not been a single food item in my house, but I have been spending money on gadgets here and there. In the span of a month, I had spent $73 on buying a router, $63 on my gas caburator, and $120 on my smart television, which I use as a monitor for my work and studies, yet there was no food in the house. How funny it is!

How do I feed?

I buy food outside every day. I try not to spend more than $3 per day on food. This is quite expensive, I know. But buying food anytime I am hungry saves me time to do things I want to do instead of spending it all in the kitchen cooking.

To some degree, I like cooking, but I hate it because of the time I spend in the kitchen instead of doing something productive.

The reason why I am broke at the moment is because I have been trying to create comfort for myself by solving the challenges I face, which include buying a 5G router to solve internet problems, a hybrid Gas/petrol converter to solve electricity problems, and a monitor for wider viewing and entertainment.

I am not complaining, but I know that with the little time I have and with the issues that I have been able to work on, thanks to Hive, I will be able to build my skills and potential to earn more in the future. I view them as investments in my future.

Hopefully, everything turns out for the better.

The pictures I shared at the beginning of the post show what I am eating for dinner. I only spent $1 for that, which makes a total of $2.3 spent on today's meal. Oh, I didn't mention that I bought bread, beans, an egg, and soda this afternoon for $1.3.

Anyway, that's all about my day. See you all tomorrow.

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𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁

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_{Starstrings01, also known as Giftedhands, attends the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta to study mechatronics engineering. He is a lover of the hive, a guitarist from Nigeria, and a student.}

_{His ambition on Hive is to be more than just an ordinary blogger; he wants to be someone with a purpose. That's why he started the newbies initiative @newbies-hive to help guide and support newbies. Please follow the @newbies-hive curation trail by clicking here.}

_{He tries to juggle education with being active on the chain, but his love and passion for Hive keep him on track..}

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