Just wondering; $1 is the equivalent of about 6 South African Rand. With R6 I can buy myself a cup of coffee at a coffee shop. Cant think of much more I could do with R6! Where are you from, what currency does your country use, how much is it in US Dollars, and what can you buy for it?

Mandy

1$ is about 2.70 Lithuania Litas. I can buy 3 loaf of bread.

For my country, Thailand, 1 dollars is about 40 baht and can buy 2 cups of noodles.

For 1 U.S. Dollar I can make my teen go away for an hour

Theres no way I could get my daughter to go away for an hour on $1!!!

I live The Usa. You buy a lot of buy thing worth of dollars

You buy 2 soda for 1 bucks
You can buy 1 patato chips
You can buy paper plates
You can buy 99 cents hamburger, candy and many more

The usa has their own One dollars store. Everything in the store you will be able spend every time only 1 dollars

Wow, 99cents for a hamburger!

Cents are worth nothing here.

If you go in Mcdonald They have a menu called Dollars Menu??

Wendy has a menu called 99 cents. They included jr baconcheeseburger, salad, chili, french fries, frosty and many more

The cheapest thing we have on our McDonalds menu is R19.99, which is about $3.30. And that is definately the absolute cheapest meal you will find anywhere.

The Usa average is around 3.30 bucks same thing??

The lowest meal in Mcdonald is around 3.49 for a meal But on Wendy The Meal is around 3.29 for a meal.

a US dollar is worth less than 1 ? (euro) and that gets me pretty much nothing over here 1 liter of milk or something else on the same price range is what I can get with one 1$.
The cheapest thing in McDonald's over here is worth 1? and it's that cheap only when they have special deals for customers.

So far it seems like a dollar is pretty much a dollar in most places!

How much for a cup of coffee in a coffee shop or restaurant? I always wonder about that, you see in movies how they get charged $20!

it costs aboout $1.20 for a mcds hamburger here in the UK ?
a cup of coffee costs about $3 here in starbucks

for $1
i could buy 1 and a half chocolate bars
or
a loaf of bread
or
6 eggs
LOL doesnt buy much
we dont have a dollar store but we do have a store where everthing is ?1 and a load of rubbish and ?1 = 64c

You only get 6 eggs for 1 bucks. We could get dozens egg for 99 cents. Sometime If the grocery store on sale. You get 24 egg for 1 bucks.

I went to the Dollars store yesterday. I found you get buy 50 cents for a Gift Wrappers Wow 2/1 dollars for gift wrappers.

Davidbugs is right.. there's lots of stuff in the US always being sold for 99 cents. The problem is the sales tax Each state is different but will surely throw you over the dollar


Chelly

In Poland $1 is worth about 4 PLN (polish zloty) and you need about 5 dollars to get a glass of martini and wodka in a nice pub.

As for the food, you can get a breakfast for $1 here, and even 2 liters of milk...and I don't eat in McDonalds, so I dunno how much you can get there for that, but I bet anyway that would be enought to get sick!


BTW Pia don't scare me about the prices, cause I'm moving to Sweden in few weeks...am I right that you speak about Sweden?

$1 is about 7.3 sek. (swedish crones)
A big mac meal at macdonalds costs 45:-, about $6.2.
For one dollar you can buy one liter of milk.
A cup of coffee cost about $3 at a cafe.

in Argentina 1 dollar=2.97 pesos (currency money)
I don use go to Mac donalds but sometimes I buy a cheap Ice cream there, I can buy 3 ice crem that really are not the best.

1 pizza costs $1.50
1 Coke (2lts) $1.40
fresh meat (we cosnsume it usually) $2.50 x kg (high quality)
and..what more? ah!! cheese: $2,00 x Kg

I forgot with 1 dollar you can buy here 2 1/2 liters of milk

From the Great State of Indiana - smack dab in the good old U. S. ofA.

at my favorite bar on Wed nights you can get Domestic Beer (in bottles) for ONE DOLLAR.

I can get .75 gallon of gas for ONE DOLLAR

I can buy 5 individual cigarettes (illegal of course to sell themlike that) for ONE DOLLAR

My son can eat lunch at school for 80 cents saving me from having to fix his lunch (less than ONE DOLLAR)

I can make a 3 minute long distance call from a pay-phone for ONE DOLLAR.

But hey, if everything's so cheap, how come i can't afford anything?!

$1 is about 57 Rupees in Pakistan

At McDonalds i can not buy anything for 1$, all prices starting from 85 Rupees

For 1$ (57 Rupees) i buy get 2 litres of milk (cost 56 Rupees) or 2 dozen eggs (cost 50 Rupees)

For 1$ i can watch a cricket match (cost 60 Rupees)

For 1$ i can buy 220 hours to use Internet from an ISP

For 1$ i can buy 4 chocolate bars

Our dollar has gone up against the U.S. currncy now woth around 72 cents. A litre of petrol is under $1. A lof of bread is $1 at Franklins and 2 litres of milk there is $2. I can buy 30 cans of coke for $13.89 and I sell them for $1 each in my machines. But the headlights have gone in my car and I will have to pay for that plus many other bills. So in my case coca cola has saved me from ruin.

lol if you go to the Indian Reservation you can get a pack of cigs for 97cents
>koff koff<

Australia here too

$1 Us = $1.38 Au

Can't get much for that, UNLESS you hit the 'on special' shelves in the supermarket.
Last week i got a 200g box of Arnotts Barbeque Shapes (flavoured crackers - for those who don't know what they are) for 96c Au. The best movie munchies!
Or a 50g packet of Red Rock Deli Sweet Chilli and Sour Cream chips, but they don't last very long. If you're really lucky you might score a 375ml can (or maybe two) of orange, lime or lemon soda. Soft drink machines like gotluckys little investment are great!
In 'Downunder' you can get some fantastic bargains, you just have to take the time to look for them. We have lots of $1 and $2 shops and the range of useful 'junk' is amazing. Sunglasses, foodstuffs, blank cd packs, pen & pencil packs, kids toys...the list goes on.
Discount vouchers and cards are useful items, i save heaps on fuel for my car. Work it smart and you can save up to 18c per litre

Here in New York there are diners that have breakfast specials that are 2 eggs, two pancakes, 2 sausage or bacon and two pieces of toast for 1.99.

mrssal,

what exactly is your avatar doing?

I live in Albuquerque (NM, USA)...
Our dollar stores kick butt (you can get brand name food items like Hamburger Helper and such that usually go for $1.75 - $4), and sometimes Smith's (one of our grocery stores) has sales where you can get an entire flyer full of items for $1 each.
One of the staples of my hubby's & my diet is turkey burger - we can get it at most grocery stores for 99 cents, and it makes many other side dishes seem more like a meal when we're particularly poor.

New bedford mass USA

I found a movie theater that cost $1 per person this is great for my little ones

the last time we paid full price for just 4 of us to go I spent $86

Wow, really, alicia? I grew up in Woburn and we sure didn't have anything like that!!!


Chelly

yes all we buy are the drinks we sneak our snacks in our pockets

I have to save money some how I have 4 of my own and four step children

every month someone needs new shoes lol

2 years ago i could buy a hamburger at mcdonalds for a buck...now i can get about 3/4 of a hamburger for a buck cuz the dollar exchange rate keeps dropping =/

This was a cool idea for a thread! I would have thought things would have been a lot cheaper in Pakistan.

nafan already said that $1 is about 64pence in the Uk. That would buy me a can of coke, or 4 bottles of dead cheap tesco cola 1kilo of sugar is app $1, I could buy about 1/4 pint of beer in a pub for $1 if they sold in 1/4 pints 3 baking potatoes cost me $1, I could get 2 packets of potato chips for $1, 2 first class stamps to send a letter within the Uk, about 2pints of milk for $1

My isp is ?16 a month for dial up - $25

I bought the sims unleashed for xmas ?20 - $31

Cheap packet of ciggies ?3.75 - $5.85

Return bus fare to my nearest town ( i am in a village where shop prices are about 150% of town prices ) ?3 - $4.70

2l bottle of coca cola at the shop next door ?1.30 - $2

I live in Norway and get about 6.7 NOK for a dollar.
For one dollar I dont get much mayby a small chocolate bar.

My Isp cost me 495 NOK a month (73 dollar) ADSL 720/128
Coke: 1.5 liter 15 NOK (ca $ 2)
A 20 pk with cigs 60 NOK ($ 8.8)
Electric power 0.60 NOK KW/h (8 cents, it's pretty cheap in Norway)

The Lowest Dsl Price I seen. Verizon is offering 29.95 dollars a month with 750kbps connection for the first 3 month then 34.99 a month.

It is the lowest seen so far??

If you live in Japan and North/south korea. I know their Dsl Price are very cheap only 21.95 a month. I read this story on the web. They have the faster internet connection in the world. They are offering 5mbps to 10mbps

I can get a call-up ISP for free, but then I have to pay to use the phone. And thats about 1 dollar pr. hour. So if I stay online 2 houres a day it will cost me more than 60 dollars and for 56 kbits connection.
Btw. 495 NOK is covering everything I need to get online including the fee the wiring company take. I dont have a regular phone.