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What are your "poor person" money life hacks? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Let's get a list going. Like with a Target debit card you can get $40 cash back and it takes 1 to 2 days to be withdraw from your checking.

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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Apparently so. €760 per month is the minimum monthly wage in Portugal. Works out at less than €5 per hour if you assume 160 hours per month which seems very low. For reference, Ireland is €11.30. While cost of living is higher here you can still pick up a full uncooked chicken for around €5 depending on the shop.

Local supermarket here does 4 chicken legs for €2.55.

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

A whole chicken in the US costs between 12-16 dollars depending in weight. The price literally doubled over the last couple years

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

GOOD GOD!

How big is a chicken there though?

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

About 5-6 pounds. Bigger ones get close to 7 pounds. So like 2-3.5 kg

Before Covid they were 99 cents a pound, now it's about 2.50/lb

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks. Yeah that is a big assed chicken for Ireland tbh but it's still more expensive overall.

I feel like you guys have been badly burned by price gouging. I remember seeing a thing on Reddit about egg prices skyrocketing and they had barely budged here so I found it odd.

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The price of most groceries have at least doubled. I can still get store brand eggs for about $1.50 a dozen but other brands are easily 3+ dollars now. Meanwhile supermarkets are posting record profits.

[-] poszod@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

This is correct.

The kg of raw chicken here is currently at 2.34€ at the two biggest supermarket chains, a whole chicken is usually 1.5kg.

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