Shopping 🛍️ in 20$ Participated By @ishayachris

Greetings to the amazing steemians in this noble community (@steem-family). Its actually I privilege to be among you today. In this article, I will be sharing with you what I can buy with $20 in my country. Before I move with my discussion, I do love to appreciate the entire community Admins, and moderator's for this wonderful contest, and for contributing to the growth of this amazing platform. Remain blessed as you read through.

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Its not a news that the prices of goods and services are always increasing on daily basis. The amount you used in buying a product today, will hardly be the same with the amount you will use to buy tomorrow. You might think you have huge amount of money at hand, but on reaching to the market, you will realise that the money can not even buy all you need. This occur due to increase in prices of goods and services.

Nevertheless, as humans they are always a need for us to make something's available. For instance, we need food, water, clothes, electricity, etc. As such, no matter the increase in their prices, we must still try as much as possible to get them.

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What $20 can buy for me in one walk to the store in my city

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First of all, I do love you to know that I am a Nigerian. And here in Nigeria, $1 is equivalent to 672 naira. In total, $20 =13440. Looking at the amount, its clear that the money can afford to buy some basic needs.

If I am given $20, I will first of write down my needs, and I will also write my wants. Needs are those things that we as human can not do without. For example, food, shelter, clothes, etc. While want are those things that we can actually live without them. Example, wristwatch, earpiece, television, etc.

Since we already know the difference between needs and want, I will be writing down what $20 can buy for me base on my needs and want. Below are the tables that shows what I can buy with $20 in my country.

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My needs and their prices

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Items	price in naira	$ equivalent
Rice	1,700	2.95
Beans	800	1.49
Trouser	4,300	5.7
Refilling of 3kg Gas cylinder	2,700	3.7
Total	9,500 13.84

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My wants and their prices

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Items	price in naira	$ equivalent
Wristwatch	1,800	2.69
Earpiece	800	1.4
Air freshener	1,300	2.07
Total	3,900	6.16

Looking at the table above, it's clear that $20 can actually buy many products in my country because the prices of some of the goods are less expensive.