How to survive on 3k naira (4dollars) in a week.
The money is sent on a Sunday morning. I starve till evening then I cook soup. I buy egusi #300(milk cup) crayfish #50, palm oil #100, maggi and onions #50, ugwu(pumpkin leaves) #50, fresh pepper #50, half paint of Garri #700, stockfish #200. Totalling 1450k, remaining sum: 1550k.
I eat the soup on Sunday night, Monday morning and night then Tuesday morning and night. Then I beg my roommates for sugar to soak the remaining Garri on Wednesday morning (note that the method I use in eating the Garri is two milk cups per sitting).
On Wednesday evening I cook jollof rice; I buy 3 cups of rice (130 per cup), 1 sachet tomato #100, 1 sachet power oil #130, maggi #30, curry #30, onions #20. Totalling #700, remaining sum #850.
I eat the rice on Wednesday evening, Thursday morning and night (it doesn't satisfy me tho but I have no choice).
Then on Friday morning I check if the Garri is still remaining if it isn't I starve and curse myself for being a glutton who doesn't know how to manage for the rest of the day, then in the evening I cook beans; I buy four cups of beans (milk cup #100) #400, palm oil #100, maggi #30, onions #20, crayfish #50, pepper #20. Totalling #620, remaining sum #230.
I eat the beans on Friday night, Saturday morning and night.
Then I wait till Sunday morning or afternoon when my parents may manage to scrape something off here and there and send me 3k . Sometimes they fail to send it and I use the remaining change to buy #200 bread but of they do send it I use #100 from the change to recharge my phone credit.
This has been my life's routine for a long time now in the university of Nigeria, Nsukka. I am always among the last to pay class dues and fees, most times I borrow from others just to be able to meet the deadline for payments. I have disgraced myself in front of almost everyone around me due to my lack of funds.
My department is theatre and film studies and due to the practicals involved working and schooling is not an option. Other online jobs I could do require money to start up.
I am squatting in the hostel I live in as my parents could not pay my school fees on time.
A lot of people complain daily of problems and hardships but most of them cannot imagine a hard life like mine whoever you are remember to be thankful for the ability to be able to feed well and earn steadily because someone somewhere is wishing they have that much.