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8 minutes ago, z42 said:

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash.... Your money will multiply and you will be able to cash it out in your home country if you use GDAX, coinbase or other licenced exchange.

Unless they crash ... then you have to wait a day (or 2)  longer when they recover from the crash.

Axa has a very good and helpful English speaking hotline.

You can transfer money out with the Bangkok bank without having an account there . I did it 3 times ( because they had the best TT exchange rates).

3 hours ago, suzannegoh said:

 

 

 

 

 

That's a good landlord then, most rip people off on electricity.

 

 

 

 

 

Detached motel room.

1 hour ago, suzannegoh said:

What about if we stay in the AC?    

 

 

Anyone who has AC or more than one pair of underwear would be unqualified to participate in this thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No , AC is included in the room price.

1 hour ago, KhunMhee said:

How does one spend time alone in a room not being able to go out or do much other than a trip to the grocery store to buy cheap eats?

The internet , I'm sure you've heard of it .

Great things in front of us : VR ! ( virtual reality ) , no need to go out again. Watch the movie : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4054004/?ref_=nv_sr_1

45 minutes ago, balo said:

Again I have to remind you about this thread is about how to live on 4000 baht a month. I am surprised mod is not cleaning it up.

This must have a record number of "off topics" in TV history.  You're not the only one that is surprised.

It should have been 41 pages on tips to live ( or survive ) in Thailand on 4000 B/month.

16 minutes ago, Brunolem said:

the wind will blow from the East,

If it blows the smog/smoke away , I'll be happy and more rain >> less particles in the air.

In case of accident , always contact your insurance .

6 hours ago, Naam said:

no dessert for your lady?

A scream pie !

54 minutes ago, ChristianPFC said:

I consume on average 1 m3 per month, and that costs me 18 THB (but I know of places that charge a flat fee of 100 THB per months for water, including the first 5 m3, and from then on 18 THB/m3). BTW, I drink tap water.

 

Tomatoes at 10 THB/kg is very cheap. On average I pay 20 THB/kg at Klong Toey market where I do all my fruit shopping, very rarely do I see tomatoes at 10 THB/kg. Often they are graded 15/18/20/25/30 THB/kg, but they all look the same to me, does anyone understand the system?

Here too 50 B for 5 kg bag of tomatoes ... but small and not nice ones and taste bad ( raw) + with a coat of chemicals. At the big supermarkets they have the nice big tomatoes at 50-70 B/kg ! Too expensive for me so I don't know the taste. The 30 B/kg smaller ones at the supermarket are barely better than the 10B/kg at the market.

Usually the bigger the more expensive .

Wow this was actually a post about living cheap with tomatoes ! Not about golfing , Stevie Jobs medical decisions and UK pensions.

3 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

I know lots of vegan cyclists, most inject B12.

But to stay on topic ... is it cheaper to inject B12 than pills ?

Injections are more for people that don't absorb the B12 through their stomach . That's why you need a second blood check after a period of taking the pills.

The Thai B12 pills are as expensive as back home ( gov doesn't payback meds like vitamines).

2 hours ago, bazza73 said:

One small point worth watching - one can become Vitamin B12 deficient here. That's because most of the meat here is pork, chicken or fish, and beef (red meat) is the only source of Vitamin B12. I take a B12 supplement every second day.

True that . As a vegetarian , or here in Thailand I'm more a vegan , I was far below minimum B12 levels . Have to take some pills too.

So good advice for vegans & vegetarians : have your blood tested for B12 !

1 minute ago, tingtongtourist said:

True. Many did even have money to buy houses in Thailand.

Maybe those guys are likely to be the one who is forced to live on 4000 baht a month like the OP and crying in their 30 baht beer.555

 

 

 

The dream of owning land and house in Thailand has died a few years ago.

For those that went the : "company" way and got caught , yes they may be on a forced budget of 4000/month.

28 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

For a life without the good things. How are you going to pay for any hospital bills when they come?

With money .

Serious illness but can still travel >> fly home for near free hospital .

Accute things ( stroke , heart attac ) >> fire up the oven at the local Wat.

9 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

I do, you don't have any money.

Oh , I do have enough.

8 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

On a serious note we see these cheap Charlie threads a lot. The  4K , 5 k Per month , I demand my .25  satang back every time kind of guys. I feel a little sorry for them. No one should end up this way and some threads about how to pre plan should be started more often than how little I have to spend. I wonder if the OP or others scraping to get by ever pic up their phone ( or a friends phone) and speak to some great grand nephew or great great niece or grandchild or even the current neighbors kid and tell them how important it is to pre plan during your money making years and save hard and long during that period of life. Don't depend on a meager pension that you think may carry you through the golden years. Invest, learn about the stock market , Roth IRAs , retirement accounts, Real Estate etc and be better off. Even if you didn't do it yourself advice from an older person is often good and listened too. Just my 1/2 satangs worth. 

Who says any of us HAVE to spend little ? We just like/want to spend little. There is a difference.

8 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

There is a (not s?) subtle difference between being keeniaw and being a "Farang kee nok". Not buying that piece of jewelry for you lady you are being keeniaw. When you live with 4000 bahts a month you are a "Farang kee nok". And believe me the Thais know perfectly well who's who.

No they don't !

@MaeJo : well I don't.

7 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

If someone does not have the money, I totally get it.

 

But I know some that have plenty and have a constant desire to live a cheap life.

I think it is some sort of psychological issue.  Their big accomplishment for the day is saving 50 b.  They will even brag about it.

Some sort of control or success is achieved in their mind I guess.  It kind of reminds me of hoarders.  They get off on saving......

 

But, if one is here living on that and is a healthy sexually active male,  boy he must have developed a very strong right hand.  Seems rather sad I think and not a life I came here to live.

 

 

Some of us are in a different state of mind than you .

Healthy sexually active male ? Not all of us want to bang hookers here. Who's the loser : the one that needs to pay or compromise to have pleasure from his (or her) own body , or the one that can do it better themselves ? ( no rubbers needed , no diseases , anytime , as often as you want AND FREE).

4 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

First, it is the ridiculous figure of 4000 Bahts, everyone with some common sense would know this isn't frugality, it is starvation, therefore pointless. I remember seeing here, or on some other fora people debating on the feasibility of living in LOS with 20000; a lot more sensible debate if you ask me.

 

Second, what is the benefit for the host country of immigrants living here and not contributing to the economy? Someone earlier in the thread said they give a bad reputation to all foreigners, not completely wrong; Farang kee nok, is not exactly a compliment.

4000 B exl rent IS doable . Starvation ? So millions of Thai are starving then ?

Living in LoS with 20.000 ... included rent !

Like MaeJo said , we're NOT immigrants. People around me , earn from me. I don't need to contribute , it is not my country nor am I a burden on Thailand. They still get more money from me being here then if I were not.

Nobody knows my frugality , so no-one can point at me saying: farang keeniaw.

13 minutes ago, CGW said:

What are we doing? using our leisure time how we want to! If I was living like the OP I would have no time for leisure as my life would be spent trying to live cheaply & within budget!

BS , Living cheaply has more time for leisure than you think.

7 minutes ago, InMyShadow said:

We are trying to discourage the dummies from attempting it.

It's totally insane. While your defending it and are probably in the same boat what's going to happen if you get violently I'll or banged up by a motorcycle taxi? Your going to lean on the people you know and beg

Would you encourage your son or daughter to live on that budget

Yep didn't think so

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It's not insane .

I don't take motor taxi's and don't come near them. I don't lean on people and certainly don't beg.

I was smart enough not to have kids. So your question is mute.

12 minutes ago, InMyShadow said:

2200 posts by you. Trapped in your home, ever heard of that.

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That is over a lot of years . Only trapped because of retirement extention.

Society has learned much of the posters well : the way to happyness and fun is spending as much as you can and be a BIG consumer. What I don't get is what are all the big spenders doing on a topic about living cheap ? Don't they have far better things to do in their awesome , fantastic , funfilled , never boring life , than knocking on some poster that want to live cheaply ?

57 minutes ago, InMyShadow said:

Measuring the grass growing around you is a hobby that cheap Charlie's are forced to participate in.

We have an awesome thing called : the internet .... maybe you've heard of it ?

1 hour ago, MaeJoMTB said:

25bht of Viagra sorts that out.

And then 100.000's THB when you have a heartattack.

1 hour ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Tesco Lotus minced pork 52bht/400gm

Bell Peppers 10bht/4 from my local farmers market

 

Spag bol recipe, I only listed the items with significant costs.

A kilo of onions for 10bht last a while, a kilo of garlic or dried chili for 10bht lasts forever.

Otto pyrex oven 900bht in Tesco, Samsung microwave 1,250 bht in Makro.

Onions 1kg for 10 B ? Garlic 1 kg for 10 B ??

Garlic went from 40 B/kg a few years ago to >100 THB . Now back to 80-90 B/kg. Market or Makro.

I doubt CM is cheaper than where I live.