[Hopple]

(Original post by Norton1)
I kind of assumed it would be donating the difference to charity.

What difference, are you assuming it's possible to do that?

[Norton1]

(Original post by Hopple)
What difference, are you assuming it's possible to do that?

Assuming you exclude bills then yeah I reckon it is. You'd need to walk everywhere but it's doable with some planning. I mean the difference between what you'd usually spend and the spend for the week living on £1.25 a day.

[chrisawhitmore]

(Original post by zuqqer)
So, a few weeks ago, I had a talk from a lady from ''Free the Children''- a charity that provides a way for children and young adults of the first world countries to help the third world.
And then today, I saw this:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/...acts-and-stats
40% (almost 3 Billion people, no biggie...) of the world lives on $2 (£1.25) a day. A DAY. I bought a bottle of Coke today, guess how much it cost me? £1.25.
So I thought to myself, how much do I live on a day? Could I survive on £1.25 a day? (Including electricity, food, drink, water, transport, heating- bearing in mind that the people who live on £1.25 do NOT have access to free health care or education.) And me being me, I decided to set myself a challenge to live on £1.25 for a week (September 1st- September 7th). Do you think you could live on £1.25 for one day? I've made an event on facebook if anyone wants to join the challenge.

Adjusting for purchasing power, £1.25 in, for example, India, is £6.25 in the UK. Just to make the challenge a little more realistic (and possible)

[Annoying-Mouse]

Nah, but if I was in Kenya I could. I remember a bottle of coke costing around 20 shilling over there. 1 pound = 130 Kenya Shilling. So wouldn't be very hard.

[Architecture-er]

(Original post by Norton1)
Diets are a bitch.

Especially when they're financial diets

[Formerly Helpful_C]

I'll pass because, yeah.

[sugar-n-spice]

No

Money goes further there

It makes no difference to them so I highly doubt this challenge is being done out of compassion rather than your own sense of self righteousness (you made an event on Facebook ).

[djpailo]

Are you going to factor in inflation?

[Rock Paper Spock]

Try dumpster diving/freeganism so then you don't have to worry about food

[Kerny]

For a day? Certainly. For a week? Hell no, food/water is too expensive to live off £1.25.

[zuqqer]

(Original post by sugar-n-spice)
No

Money goes further there

It makes no difference to them so I highly doubt this challenge is being done out of compassion rather than your own sense of self righteousness (you made an event on Facebook ).

Wow, bit cynical there. I'm just doing this to show everyone just how f**king fantastic I am, of course, get out of your ass at least I'm trying to do something.

[sugar-n-spice]

(Original post by zuqqer)
Wow, bit cynical there. I'm just doing this to show everyone just how f**king fantastic I am, of course, get out of your ass at least I'm trying to do something.

Not spending money which create jobs, somehow helps the people in the third world, gotcha.

How many people have given you positive feedback for this stunt on the Facebook?

[didgeridoo12uk]

you might just be able to spend £1.25 a day on food if you're really careful. but unless you intend to not use any electricity, go without washing anything for a week, cook on a fire (and ignore rent) you won't be able to do it.

cool idea though. i'm gonna be broke at uni next year so may well end up trying to only spend 1.25 on food each day

[blahblah772]

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