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Check my profile.
I knew before you.

You will see my post.

I called it another 9,/1

Coffee and crackers.
My own remedy.

I added oil to my coffee.( yes oil)

I take this before going to work and don't need to eat anything till I come back home

The total money spent.
Spaghetti -350
Ugwu - 100

Bone marrow & biscuit bone -100
Curry -30
Fried rice spice - 50
Total - 580

The butcher already knows me and carefully remove the marrow of the bones. With a cut of biscuit bone and bone for 100 naira.


Yes this food is called brain food
.you will not be hungry for two days. As the fat will make you full.

I don't eat it always though.

Spaghetti.

Cooked with bone marrow and ugwu.

Is the Owo massacre a genial plot to get Tinubu to win the primary elections.
Did he and Akeredolu plan this
Is Tinubu that desperate.
The coincidence is actually too much. Weeks ago, one would have predicted a rotimi Amaechi to win the primary and tragedy struck, conveniently

I'm still in thoughts

EmperorHadrain

Sunday rice.

Its not every time that you must fry stew.
And with the recent increase in the price of tomato.
This might be the way going forward.

Rice and Pepper soup.
I have rice at home.
Pepper soup ingredients - 200 naira (per cup)
Utazi leaf (the bitter one)
Kote fish 600 naira

I added grounded crayfish, salt and maggi.
That's all.

EmperorHadrain

Please I'm begging you.
I'm Igbo and all you have been saying is the absolute truth.

I need help, how do I survive this Nigeria
For I know it's finished.

A trip to Gembu for any Nigerian will convince them that the Fulani are demons.
Thousand of Hectares just for cattle.
From Jalingo to Gembu.
The junkuns and Tivs are now like prisoners.

Please teach me whatever coping mechanism I can use to survive.

Is the only solution leaving the country?

Op this stuff is normal don't be ashamed.
There is a documentary called Viewer where a man did this professionally for a long time.
It is a coping mechanism gotten from adolescent carryover.
And been insulted by women you find it hard to approach them, so you look for a bypass
And I can assure you it is very sweet.
You feel almost god like. But the consequences could be dire.


What do you do.
Get a girlfriend. No matter how stupid familiarize yourself with the smell, feel and nature of a vagina. it will wean you off the need to see more
Masturbate when the urge comes, use the images you have acquired to reduce the urge of going there.

Write about it. A memoir also helps. So that u can laugh About it.
In time and with good porn you should be fine.

Jiraiya did it till his fifties.
Who are we but our bodies.
It's perfectly normal.
You will be fine.

Shortcut2life:
You understand the end point of it all but to be honest those things that seems as a hard task are still achievable although it is strenuous but it is better than giving up and settling for less …
The good things of life are out there staying in that peaceful town doesn’t guarantee total happiness from financial freedom or your desires .

There is nothing out there. I earn six figures and I'm not happy
My life revolves around going to work, downloading a movie or documentary.
Sleeping.
Nothing else is happening.
I don't know the life that they are idealizing but out here it's slavery.
I miss my NYSC Days and if I could go back in time, I would never have come back to Lagos.
I'm still thinking about leaving it,
But as a young graduate my advise is change your thinking this road to white collar job happiness is closed off.

Hmm.

Where do I begin.

Overpopulation is Nigeria's problem
Okay.
I finished service in 2016, did N power 2 years now work in a big company in Lagos.

What have I learnt and how can it help you.


I wish I served Jos or Nassarawa
I hate it here in Lagos and wish to The heavens that I can see a job that is teaching job in a Village in the North where I can sleep and live a peaceful life.

As a graduate use your service year to read and re-read Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

Go to YouTube and Check Happen Films.

With Peak oil and economic collapse upon us you are better off in a farm.

Save your allawee use it to buy 2 plot of land and start permaculture farming while you subsist with teaching.
Give birth to only one child and send him to public school.
Manage your resources and learn to live a minimalist life


The rest of the world are chasing shadows.



All these skills are lies
Supply is already more than demand.


That my friends is the gospel truth.

Hi there,

To reply the question why Living Besides Nigeria.
Nigeria is not going to get better with the population, peak oil, and economic collapse. what we are seeing is the tip of the iceberg.


My goal is to teach Nigerians how to live life on the little we have

So I am posting my Sunday
moi moi

Yesterday I bought beans and ground it
I didn't even pick it, just bought a paint of white beans and ground it at Ilepo
2300 + 500 for grounding.
This usually last me 3 months.

I also bought Onions 500 too. For every month.


Moi Moi:
Put the grounded beans in water,
Add pepper
Add grounded crayfish
Salt and oil (No maggi)
Put it inside Nylon and boil.

I eat two then the remaining I can eat with noodles at night

Today I ate porridge with the remaining potatoes. ( The 500 naira own I bought)
There is still 3 pieces remaining


Potato porridge

Dried fish - 100
Ugwu - 100

Finish.( The rest are at home)

Fried Potatoes and Eggs.

Cost
Potatoes - 500
(I only fried half, the remaining half I will use it for porridge)
Eggs: 70 (3 for 200)


(I have onions, pepper and salt at home)
With 700 naira you can live besides Nigeria

Spaghetti & Pepper soup with meat.

Cost - N1,200

Spaghetti : Crown 300
Pepper soup ingredients : 200
Utazi : 100
Scent leaf: 100
Meat: 500

( i have oil, maggi and salt at home)


The goal is to prove that we can live besides Nigeria.
1200 naira food bought at Ilepo Market Lagos

Adding to my chronicles of living beside Nigeria.

Add my own known and tested cleanses

Pile (Jedi Jedi)

Buy scent leaf 100 naira.
Wash and put it in a kettle
Add slices of lime, pour water
Boil and drink.

Aloe Vera, cut it into tiny pieces
Pour it in a cup add water and drink


Cucumber and Chinese garlic.
Eat one clove of Chinese garlic everyday
And try to eat cucumber at least twice a week.

Ofio (tigernut)
When hungry for a late night snack
Tigernut and date provide you with roughage fibres that help your intestinal walls.

I hope to write more with time.
Avoid Bread especially The trending ones filled with sugar.
They give us sugar addiction that are hard to fight.
Reduce meat to once a week maybe on Sunday.

For the mind
Eat more of snails and honey they help to reduce blood pressure in this capitalist world.

Relax more, stop going to work on Saturday. Sleep and play with your family money no dey finish.

Cultivate the habit of putting incense I'm your room buy 99 incense from your local aboki shop et. Al
Especially when you live in a rented apartment there are times when the house feels uncomfortable for no reason
Hot and eerie in a kind of way.
Just put two incense and your room will be cleansed.

Shaking People at work and the Fetishism of the Nigeria workspace.
When you come back and you are feeling some how
Pour water in a bucket add salt state your claim and your commands to the water (I'm not religious but you can pray on it)
Change the essence of the water to protect you use it to wash whatever slime have touched u or Shaked your hand.
You can also add your urine to the water and drink a Little

Ash and charcoal is very important in the house when you feel poisoned either from food or an attack eat some ash, drink salt water, or charcoal

Also garlic and bitter kola help ward off evil people. They don't like the smell.


I will keep adding more with time.
As we find a way to live besides Nigeria

I like your poems.

Keep it up.

We are supposed to be skinny and healthy. Look at all the herbivores how many of them get assisted with birth

As a generation we have become fatter than our forefathers, less healthier and more prone to sickness due to the high consumption of cooked food.

Bread causes pile.
Makes us fat and feel pain in our knees and waist.

We need to rethink our diet as a people and mind you I'm not a vegetarian.
But a more plant and uncooked food means a better health on the whole

When you look critically at how fat we have become in recent times you will know what I'm saying

Bread is killing us
Sugar is killing us
Cooked Food is killing us.

For people who are fat nd those who will like to live healthier
I suggest a food of nuts and whole grains

Spaghetti when you do crave cooked food.
Moi moi and green tea.

Eat more of
Tiger nuts
Coconuts
Walnuts
Groundnuts
Dates
Garri & Milk
Tea (Green, Lipton et Al)

In combo
When you are bored
Tiger nuts and garri
Date and Paco biscuits (pack is 500)
Garri, milk and groundnuts
Garri milk and moi moi
Coconuts and groundnuts
Oatmeal and cashew nuts
Cucumber once in a while
Oranges and if the hunger should persist
Spaghetti and egg.

But make your ratio of cooked to uncooked food 30/70

Let's live besides Nigeria

Simple home economics that's what's lacking in the home of the average Nigerian.
For to be human we must inquire about our nature and conquer it.

Minimalist living is the only way to survive take it or leave it.

For food we in Nigeria have a food prison of rice, beans and yam.
But sometimes I want to try other food as bachelor,
I can dedicate#1k per day to try other food especially some of the ones in nairaland section.

Spaghetti and pepper soup
Okra and fish
Potato porridge

And believe me none of these food cost above #1k. So you can decide what you want to eat and plan how to eat it and buy it in the cheapest way possible rather than eating rice all the time.
Diversify your cuisine.

On clothing
You only need 3 jalabiya to live life. Apart from work clothes which I advocate the use of white shirts since they are cheap and best for our climate ( have you asked yourself why the Japanese wear white all the time)
It doesn't conduct heat.
When you get home just change into a jalabiya finish you don't need to be buying unnecessary clothes.

Perfume is a waste of money ( roll on is okay)

Hobbies: traveling is a very good hobby at least if not the North (insecurity)
With #20,000 you can spend a week in any cheap hotel in the southwest.
And the change of environment will relax and help you.
All you need do is save (#200 daily) for 3 months and you have somewhere to go every 3 months just to relax your brain.

On investment: house is not an investment stop wasting money building houses. Build parks they are cheaper all you need is buy land add carpet grass and stem trees. ( If you build a house you will spend 3 million only to get a rent of #200 k per year) but if you build a park, people can rent it as an event place for 200k per week (52 weeks) (10 mil per year) plus it's environmental friendly.


On family, 2 children is more than enough, send them to public school and use extra lesson to support them, THERE IS NO WORK IN NIGERIA, WHY WASTE MONEY ON WESTERN EDUCATION.
Use the money you to waste as school fees use to do investment for your children like the one above.

Family issue and billing from cousins and brothers. Don't give and start having resentment, know the amount of money you can send that will not affect you. Don't live your life for a person nobody will remember or clap for you.
Think for a while
What kind of life did my great grandfather live, who remember him today, well?
That's exactly what's going to happen to you. Enjoy your life ojare we will survive Buhari's Nigeria

Don't waste money on things, save more download films, download books, download music, learn how to sit quietly inside your house, sleep more, this life no get meaning o.

It is well

Who also noticed how the moon just switched off
I mean like a bulb at 3:25 am
It was reflecting in my room and suddenly
Nothing

Piggyvest and Potatoes.

These two are life savers, I have been using Piggy for the last 4 years now and I can say that they don't disappoint.
I save money on piggyvest, I usually lock it so that I can get interest.
If I lock like 8,000 for 2 years i know I won't be able to touch it. And I get automatic interest that I use to flex on my flex account.

Potatoes also have been helpful. If I buy potatoes. I can buy the one of ₦500 and use it to make mashed potatoes ( I will cut it and peel it, cook it and when it's soft I will turn it and mash it together like Eba).
I eat this a lot with fried egg. To me it's better than eating outside ( outside food is rubbish, and very expensive)
It used to hold till 4pm when I close from work.

In this life, once you can eat, satisfy yourself and sleep everything else is vanity
I stay in a room, though I'm planning on moving to a self con.
Doing or buying chair is a waste of money.
Let the visitor (that's if you want o) sit on the floor, if he cannot let him go to his house.

I design my room like the Japanese people. I design a kotatsu where I sit and type if I want the only thing is my bed.
I don't cook beans again, with the way gas is now cost.
I just buy beans of one paint (₦2300) white beans and ground it like that without washing.
Grounding is ₦500 and I just cook Moi moi anytime I feel like eating beans.

Bread is now once in a month first Sunday of theo month when we collect salary and want to enjoy small.
We can eat bread and egg ( I don't go to church too again jare, Na scam)

I eat more of potato rather than bread. Bread ₦600 will finish in 2 days potatoes ₦600 can still take you one week.

NEPA bill - ₦2k

My monthly expenses on food is like this.

Rice (one paint) - ₦2200 (small grain)
Oil - (palm& groundnut) ₦3000
Egusi ₦500
Crayfish 1 derica ₦600
Dried tomatoes and pepper -₦1000
Gas (3kg) - ₦1800
Garri - (2 paint) ₦1600
Grounded beans ( not every month) - ₦2800
Other months I buy Noodles (mimmee (₦3200))
Date - ₦500
Tiger nut -₦1000
Lipton tea -₦300
Maggi - ₦200
Grounded pepper- ₦400
Onions- ₦500
Fresh sachet juice ( in case we want drink mineral) ₦50 per one (10 pieces) ₦500

Roughly ₦16k on feeding + transport₦6k
I'm able to save my ₦8k Every month.

From my little errands I can pay for NePa bill, Lawma bill and buy card.

Please if you have any way you manage too, post.
We will survive this Buhari's Nigeria

Please this thread must not be detailed.

Please as things are getting increasingly hard in this country.
Help us with money saving tips that you use to survive.
God bless you as you post.
I'm a bachelor. But those with families can also help.
This thread is needed so we know how to manage the little valueless Money we earn
I'm earning₦30,000

Here are mine.
I only buy and wear white shirt from Katangowa ( thrift market) bend down select.
They are cheap and good for the hot weather.

I use Ori Shea butter and coconut oil for cream

With food
I buy white beans 1 paint in the ilePo farmer's market and ground it at the back
(₦2700 total)
I use it to make Moi moi by making a paste with grounded pepper and crayfish.
I eat it to work with green tea.
Then when I come back I find something to eat
The. I buy dried pepper and tomatoes, I think it's better than tin tomatoes
1 crate of egg, as meat and fish no gree us buy (₦1500)

I usually ground mewa( pearl millet) (₦1500)
To eat with the Moi moi (it last 3 months)

For subscription I only do the Go Tv 400 per month own

I manage to save ₦8,000 At the end of the year I intend to save at least ₦90000
I intend to use it to buy land in a remote village a land that is cheap maybe 2 plots or one acre and plant stem trees and carpet grass everywhere.

So that I can have a park.. it's better than building house. House is not an investment.

I usually take standing to work (₦100/₦150 ) daily making my transport fare (max ₦6000)

I buy shoes in super (₦2500) I only two
I practice minimalist living so no extra load.
I've deleted all my social media except Nairaland and WhatsApp.
For relaxing. I download books or films with night plan.

If I do marry and give birth I intend my child to attend public school then I can use home lesson to support her I only want 2 or 1 sha
And I do other errands to support my income.


How do you manage money my friend?