A Christmas gift for your own when you won't receive any!
Posted by Poor Money Tai Tai
This year end marked my 5th jobless year in meow city, I learn to live more stingy than ever and learn like those majority poorer local residents live their simple lives.
Hardly anything that I did here for the past few years could get any positive response. To gain new friendships by doing charity? Never in my life I become so negative, why it makes me felt that it is a city that welcomes tourists but not a migrated resident from other smaller town?
The spending power of the people here are not like the oil city, I only learn that they save their money to get out of meow city during school holidays, last Saturday night I witnessed meow airport was packed with people, queued up a more than a kilometer in both departure and arrival halls.
First Christmas when I was in meow city, I was so cheerful and full of positiveness, and the life here gradually pushed me to the bottleneck, now I wonder if this will be my last Christmas here!
I went to a pharmacy, there was no lip balm under RM5, but the cheapest was more than RM10. What's going on here?
I saw the rich ones become richer, poorer ones become poorer, unfortunately I become the later one.
Poor people become more resourceful and they really bargain hard. Usually a lip balm with RM10+ lasted me for 4 months, so I returned home prepared a whole year supply of lip balm that cost me less than RM10.
New Zealand bee wax, a piece of that cost $7 (RM19), but I just need 1/6 of it.
I bought lemon infused extra virgin oil during clearance sales, 50% off, cost me a bottle around RM11, you just need a quarter cup
Bought 10 plastic empty containers from pharmacy cost me RM2
Put bee wax and olive oil together in a bowl, heat them in microwave at 90 degree until the bee wax barely melted, then stir the bee wax until melted.
Can buy this from Cosway, half teaspoon mixed and melted with little water.
Mix everything together, keep mixing and stirring under room temperature
Before it gets thicker, make sure you already transfer them to containers.
There are 10 small cases and the big one sure lasts me to the year end. How about I sell you those small containers each for RM3? I GUARANTEE you won't get dry lip in England during winter!
It is not soft, edible. So why buy those lip balm made by petroleum gel and all those chemical?
