Hello, Steemians! This is my entry for @pennsif's @adollaraday contest, which asks, what can one SBD buy where you live?
I'm that person who is in poverty in a rich country (the US), so you're darn right I pay attention to prices. 😉 Today SBD is at $1.07 USD, so the easy answer is "anything from the dollar store with tax on it," but actually I don't often shop at the dollar store - many things are cheaper elsewhere (though totally, bandaids at the dollar store FTW).
So here's what I can get for $1.07:
I can get 1.39 lb. of flour:
...that's the flour I just bought a bag of at King Soopers this weekend, so I pulled it out. Not wanting to open it just yet, I took a measuring tape to it and discovered that the bag is 16" long, so I tried to even out the level of flour in it and measured roughly 1.4".
See edit at the bottom. I know this made no sense.
...about that much of the bag, roughly up to the word "enriched," is how much of that flour I could get for one SBD. That's roughly enough to make the dough that wraps around the sweet potatoes and onions when I make knish. Speaking of sweet potatoes:
...I could get one average size sweet potato.
I could get enough espresso beans to almost make a quad shot in my moka pot:
...so about this much:
Though honestly, espresso is a luxury for me, so presuming I had the money to spend on it, I would probably wait for a better sale price than eight bucks. Sometimes I can get a bag of Equal Exchange coffee at Vitamin Cottage for $6. I always try and take advantage of that sale when I can.
I could also get a large apple:
...but I don't have a picture of an apple, because fresh fruit is kind of a luxury, too. I know when you plant fruit trees from seed, you don't get the same fruit really, but gala apples are the two trees growing on my balcony right now. 😊
And that's an example of what you can buy for one SBD in Denver! Thanks for reading! :)
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Edit:
hahahahaha I just was re-reading this as I do, and I realized I did some Borked Phoenix Mathâ„¢. I was thinking 16" bag, 16 oz per pound. Because somehow that made sense to my brain. It should be 3/20 of the bag? Almost? I think?
Now you know why there's a suspicion that if I were a kid today I might get diagnosed with dyscalculia (essentially, kinda math dyslexia). Numbers enter my brain, run off to the otherworld, get transformed into related-but-different creatures, burn an algebra textbook in effigy, and spit on logic.