$8.06 For Peace Of Mind?

ARTICLE NO. 47 OF 2022
TITLE: <$8.06 For Peace Of Mind?>
DATE OF PUBLISHING: <March 28, 2022>

As March comes in to our live, it only means what? It's summerrrrr. Who's excited for it? Or nah? Coz intensifying-and-scorching-heat will often be felt like 24/7. Or maybe, swimming and outing galore makes our cells and tissues jumping in so much excitement? Well, I'll go for both.

For this blog, I'll share the mini swimming outing that our family, relatives, and friends had yesterday, 03.27.2022. 🌊

Tita (Mama's younger sister) and her close friend had planned a simple summer getaway on the afternoon of Saturday, 03.26.2022. And that will happen by the next day, Sunday. In short, it is a biglaang plano. As we popularly said, "mas natutuloy pa kapag 'di planado." Do you believe in it? Coz, I do.

The venue? We have two choices and these are: (1) in an open-and-newly-renovated river, five barangays away from ours' and (2) rent a private pool. I estimated all the possible expenses and find out that we might spend higher in option 1, considering the current oil price. So yeah, we opt to just rent our neighbors pool in their farm. The foods? We assigned distinct foods per family and overall, we have here three families including ours.

As a preparation, I woke up more earlier to start hustling and doing my ongoing sketchnote. Yeah, I did a multitasking while waiting for Mama to go home from her sideline coz we'll buy foods in the city proper.

Fast forward ...

Around quarter to 8AM, we leave the house to go to the city proper and got home around 9:30AM. And so, we started preparing the foods and our things. After almost an hour, we're all done.

My getup? Just a simple attire it is, a cycling and a swim-bra. Here, I'm sharing a darken photo of mine. Sorry in advance, sana 'di kayo maumay. Hihi!

And in this photo are our foods to be brought in the mini getaway. Got here some UTI-causing foods or the "junk foods", cokes, breads, mangoes, classic Filipino spicy chicken adobo, and rice.

Aside from our foods and myself? I also got here some chia seeds for my Del Monte pineapple juice. Para healthy living pa din, LOL!

Also, I won't leave without my personal wallet and face mask. And, who's this lady who brought a pen and paper for an outing? Oh yes, that's me. :D My reason? So when I got bored, I'll just do my assignment. HAHA, ewan ko ba sa sarili ko!

As per this article's title, would a budget of less than 10 USD or PhP 500.00 be enough to have a peace of mind? Hmm, let's find out.

In this part, I'll briefly narrate my expenses. Just my expenses alone and doesn't include Mama's.

Foods and drinks

Mama bought 1 and 1/2 kilos of dressed chicken, some breads, and mangoes. While, me? I go to Friendship Supermarket and buy various junkies worth of PhP 105.00 ($2.02). Who would have thought that I'll have 18 pieces of junk foods in that kind of price? Oh, supermarkets-slash-grocery stores got our backs.

In addition, I also bought 3 bottles of 1 liter coke worth of 35 pesos each and two in-can Del Monte pineapple juice for myself. To sum up, I spent 270 pesos ($5.18) for the additional foods and drinks that I initiated to purchase.

Pool rent

The pool that we rented was indeed in a "cheap price." Yes, not that expensive. For just 500 pesos ($9.60), we can enjoy two pools and two nipa huts for the whole day. No maximum time of staying, it is.

Mama and Tita will divide the rent for two while their friend said she'll shoulder the gasoline worth of 4 liters. And, their sharing? 250 pesos ($4.80) each and so I gave PhP 150.00 or 2.88 USD to Mama, para 'di siya mabigatan. Around 11AM, we arrived at the farm and here's our foods.

So let's now answer my question above, "$8.09 or 420 pesos for peace of mind, is it enough?"

I'll answer it with a "yes." As in, Y-E-S. How could I say it? Because for just that price, I had these:

Relaxing view.

Who am I to not appreciate the "farm" when I know that it's where the people behind my degree course are? Yes, our hardworking-farmers. Also, provincial life won't be complete with this. Agree? Just this kind of view and I will instantly feel so relaxed, stress-free, and recharged even without the access to gadgets and internet. Yes, it's what we called as "probinsya feels." 🍃

Family bonding.

See the place? It was just so simple, as in. A typical private pool for a family~but still, it made us and our families so happy and satisfied. How? We're using the pool privately or in short, solo namin ang lugar. Also, we're in the middle of the chillaxing farm with looots of foods in the table. And yes, it made us have that "family bonding moments."

Sharing here some of our photos ...

A day to unwind.

This is the main reason why I come along here. Actually, my original plan is to stay in the house to do my schoolworks, attend in my side hustles, and sleep. But it changed, as Mama insists for me to go. And since I wanted to have a short break from academics as I already feel like I'm near to be "burnout" and "be sooo stressed", I go with them.

And yes, I enjoyed that day. Got to erased that "schoolworks" in my mind and just leased out all my stresses. How to? Sleeping in the nipa hut, eating, looking or more like "tumungaga" at the wide farms and sky, diving to the water. In there, I got to unwind.

So again, $8.06 is already enough to have a peace of mind that my schoolworks and other responsibilities forbid me to have. 💛

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