What can you buy with 1000 pesos in the Philippines?

Any one of the following:

25 kilos of average quality rice

meat, eggs and veggies for roughly 4-5 days for family of 4

10 filling meals in a transfat-laden fast food outlet

approx 40 rides end-to-end on the MRT (i.e. almost a month's worth of back & forth trips on a 5-day workweek)

1 child's buffet (half-price) at high-end hotel buffet

2 family-sized pizzas and a bottle of soft drinks, delivered at your doorstep, without any promos

5-8 movie tickets depending on location

10 Starbucks coffee of the day, tall, no frills. About 6 fraps, tall

1,000 sms messages after the free allocation

roughly 40 games in an arcade

2 haircuts, good-quality salon

one month phone bill (no frills--single line) plus water bill for small family

1000 pesos is not a big amount. It is roughly about 30 bucks. You can't even buy decent knockoff bags with a thousand.

Average fast food/person is around 100 bucks.

Fine Dining is about 500/head

Casual Dining/ TGI Fridays-Outback.head 300 to 500, provided you order only the lowest prices entrees

Parking is 45 bucks for the first 3 hours

Movietickets is around 150

What you can buy a lot of are bootleg dvds which is only 30bucks. PSP,WII, Music cds.

Other than that, the average middleclass date would cost you around 3000 bucks.

My 2kids and I on average spend about 3 to 10 thousand bucks on a Saturday at the Mall. Food 2 to 3thousand, shopping and movies

So one thousand essentially is nothing even for groceries where a kilo of beef is already 300 bucks and shrimp is 600.

1,000 pesos is not a lot of money to a foreigner but it is decent money to a local that knows where the good deals are and how to haggle for them. For most foreigners in the Philippines 1,000 pesos is not much money and can only buy a limited amount of things such as:

1. Twelve SMB's at 80 per beer

2. One meal at a nice restaurant in the mall such as Tony Ramos

3. Three meals at McDonalds

4. Six SMB's at 150 per beer that you would pay in Greenbelt

That's about it. As you can see things are not as cheap as you would expect in the Philippines.

over 15kgs of rice in a supermarket

40 smb's if you find a good bar with happy hour

4-5 really good meals

a years worth of haircuts

140 tricycle rides in the provinces or 10 tricycle rides in the ermita

it depends on where you shop/spend

1,000 is not lot of money for everything in Philippine u can spend like 3 or 4 day everything not incude the phillippine airline

50 packets of More cigarettes, 15 bottles of San Miguel beer and 6.6 ready cooked chickens

I bought the cheapest JAG Jeans at a little less than 1000pesos.

the cheapest fastfood meal is around 75pesos.

a case of beer with sisig and a bag of ice just came back from 3 months holiday

you could buy:

dinner for 4 in asian restaurant OR

10 junk food combo meals OR

20 canteen meals OR

1 pair of jeans from department store OR

2 new haircut in korean salon OR

1 body massage, 1 foot massage, 6 hours accommodation with buffet and jacuzzi in wensha spa OR

2 new lipsticks from revlon OR

4 bibles

that's all i can think of right now. =)

With Php 1,000 you can actually buy a house and lot... but that was 150 years ago.