How to live for 4000 baht a month. Not inc rents.

[Just Weird]

3 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

tesco....minced pork 99b/kg, chicken breast strips 79b/kg.

bags of reduced price veggies available daily, half price or less.

 

electric oven?  in sunny thailand, DIY a simple solar oven for $5.

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-5-6-Solar-Oven/

 

during the rainy season, use dried human waste (no smell!) formed into briquettes to use on his DIY hibachi made of collected scrap metal. 

Minced pork isn't minced beef which is what spag bol should be made with.  Even with reduced prices Tesco does not sell bell peppers for B2.5 each!

 

The rest of your post is just ridiculous but I think you meant it to be, yes?.

[Naam]

21 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

What's he going to buy the oven with? 

bitcoins?

[ChouDoufu]

2 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Minced pork isn't minced beef which is what spag bol should be made with.  Even with reduced prices Tesco does not sell bell peppers for B2.5 each!

 

The rest of your post is just ridiculous but I think you meant it to be, yes?.

a fellow living on 4k isn't about to spend the baht on beef.

for that lifestyle, pork (or soi dog) would do.

 

sure, the rest is ridiculous......unless you really need to save money.

 

solar ovens do work and are easily and cheaply constructed, and in other developing countries, poo briquettes are used as cooking fuel.

[InMyShadow]

3k5bht gets you a NEW room fully furnished with tv/internet/aircon/kitchen/microwave/shower and an outside seating area near Chiang Mai. Water 100bht, electricity at standard rate. (pal just built 5, they look pretty good, but out of town in SanKamplang so no takers so far)

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

Good lord living in chiang mai city is wrist slitting boring let alone living out in the sticks

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[JLCrab]

[SheungWan]

20 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

You do often get the guys on here who loathe guys who live on very little.

 

Let's be honest, those loathers aren't very nice people

The real problem sits with the 4000 baht a month army as so many of them think they deserve a medal and want to bore everybody else to hell with their 'wartime' exploits.

Edited October 29, 2017 by SheungWan

[MaeJoMTB]

42 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

 Tesco does not sell bell peppers for B2.5 each!

Which is why I buy them at my local farmers market at At Wat Nong Bot.

Bell Peppers still 10Bht for 4 (1 large red + 3 medium green)

Potatoes  were 30bht/kg (medium)

Onions 20bht/kg (medium).

 

Purchased 30 minutes ago, 10bht

Edited October 29, 2017 by MaeJoMTB

[MaeJoMTB]

6 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

The real problem sits with the 4000 baht a month army as so many of them think they deserve a medal and want to bore everybody else to hell with their 'wartime' exploits.

Why are you even looking in this thread, the title is clear.

[MaeJoMTB]

22 minutes ago, InMyShadow said:

Good lord living in chiang mai city is wrist slitting boring let alone living out in the sticks

It's a bit of a cycling world centre.

[55Jay]

38 minutes ago, steven100 said:

I can survive on 4,000 baht a day.  That's my budget and I generally stick to it.

That's excluding the hotel room as that's paid weeks in advance.

You live in a hotel?

 

[stevkob]

 

 

I think I spotted the OP at the beach

 

 

[BuaBS]

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.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

18 hours ago, InMyShadow said:

It's loathing because you western pathetic bums slumming it in a devolping country make us normal people look bad as well

Go home before your 2 year overstay kicks in.

we all know it's going to happen

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Explain why do you think you're normal.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

1 hour ago, InMyShadow said:

Couple of thousand bucks a month and living on the streets would be a lifestyle choice which is suprisingly popular

That money would get you a bunk bed at a back packers or nice room shared accommodation with plenty left for food and booze

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Surprisingly, those bums in the west probably have a better phone than a Chinese brand "Redmi".

 

As my wife would say.... hiiisoooo

[BuaBS]

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 ?

[Kadilo]

8 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

"Buy Thai food in Thailand.  Go to local markets and eat rice dishes for 30 baht. "

 

Or you could just learn to cook yourself.

Western food like Spagetti is 75bht/kg (10-15 portions), Mince 50bht/400gm, Tomatoes 10bht/kg.

Spaghetti bolognese  works out around 15bht/meal. 

 

or Sicilian  chicken soup, 2 chicken breasts 35bht, potato 20bht/kg, tomato 10bht/kg, bell peppers 10bht/4, onions 10bht/kg.

7 meals at least from that at around 10bht/meal.

 

Pizza, make the bread yourself, bread flour 32bht/kg, Mozzarella cheese 300bht/kg (30 pizza), toppings almost nothing.

Around 25bht/pizza 

 

Cooking yourself, way cheaper than buying ready cooked from market stalls.

Can't see you winning Masterchef this year. 

[BuaBS]

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 ?

 

[InMyShadow]

 
Surprisingly, those bums in the west probably have a better phone than a Chinese brand "Redmi".
 
As my wife would say.... hiiisoooo

Lots of phones with the same specs or less for double the money

I don't need a wife to tell me a sucker is born every minute [emoji16][emoji16]

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[MaeJoMTB]

13 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Can't see you winning Masterchef this year. 

I don't do 'presentation', I only do 'tastes good'.

[Techno Viking]

1 minute ago, MaeJoMTB said:

I don't do 'presentation', I only do 'tastes good'.

Yes but what you posted sounds terrible, the food I cook for my dogs is better.

[InMyShadow]

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

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

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[MaeJoMTB]

9 minutes ago, Techno Viking said:

Yes but what you posted sounds terrible, the food I cook for my dogs is better.

What did you have for lunch/dinner?

Edited October 29, 2017 by MaeJoMTB

[InMyShadow]

What did you have for lunch/dinner?

OMG are you really drinking that sugary alcohol garbage?

Tried it once and threw it off the balcony

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[Techno Viking]

1 minute ago, MaeJoMTB said:

What did you have for lunch/dinner?

For lunch I rustled up a pan fried Salmon with potato's and Broccoli.

 

Not had dinner yet, 5pm is way too early but a grilled chicken salad planned.

 

 

[BuaBS]

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.

[MaeJoMTB]

Dinner now .........

[JLCrab]

 

[Techno Viking]

8 minutes ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Dinner now .........

Yeah, enjoy but not for me.

 

[CGW]

39 minutes ago, BuaBS said:

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 ?

 

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!

[KiChakayan]

4 hours ago, CNXBKKMAN said:

I think if you want to live the frugal lifestyle and be happy with it you need to do the Kings "porpieng" thing. 1 rai of land . Fish pond in one corner, thai veg growing in another quarter, mango/fruit trees in another, simple bungalow house, teak trees around the edge for shade and timber. Cash expenses will be minimal when its established. You may end up giving food away or swapping it for sone cocunuts with a neighbour? You dont need to own the land. Go to to any rural area and rent a patch off a local. It might cost 4000 baht a year? 

      Has anyone done this? 

As a foreigner you are not allowed to work on the land.